Reflection

After my talk with Lenny from specsavers, I thought about everything that he taught me while editing my music video for the 3rd draft, I have listened to him about changing the colours of some of the clips. Using the basic colour correction tools I was able to make the clips fit the theme of the video and I feel that it looks much better now. His tips on how to stay organised using my files has made it easier to insert the clips I want, also I was able to experiment by duplicating my project to try out different colours and moving around the clips.

Feedback And Targets

I had a brief chat with Lenny from Specsavers and he has taught me a few things about premiere and it will help me going forward.

• Colour correction

Lenny showed me the basics and the essentials of Colour correcting on premiere pro, playing with midtones and shadows to match the narrative, going forward we will keep practicing different settings of colours for our next draft.

• Layout

Lenny also was showing me how to format my clips on premiere, making it more organised and easier to understand. Colour coding separate clips to make it simpler to find and edit the clips I want. I will keep doing this for my next draft

• Organisation

Lenny has also shown me some useful features on premiere which will help me keep my clips organised and easy to find, and has taught me how to use premiere in a more effective way which is easy to understand.

Lenny has given me a different view on the clips, after showing me the basics on colour correction I now have more ideas on what I want the music video to look like, giving me more freedom with my ideas and what I want it to be.

Reflection

In reflection I think the music video has improved after our recent shoots, we now have multiple shots of the narrative and have made huge improvements. However I believe there is still many changes to be made. Firstly I’m going to change the timing of the cuts to match the beat of the music, and some of the clips can be moved around to improve the tempo and to communicate the narrative to the audience better.

I also think there needs to be a change to the colours in the clips, I will be testing out the colour correction to make the clips suit the narrative, I can change the clips to black and white to communicate sadness and the character feeling numb, some shots I can cut around the blue sky or the blue background to enhance the colour blue, as the colour blue is linked with sadness fitting with the theme. After the recent shoots we now have all the footage we need to fill the video and there’s been a big improvement of the quality of footage from our last draft.

Reflection on shoot 2

The second shoot was very crucial to us moving forward for our video. After shoot one we had many missing areas in the video and were lacking the quantity of clips for this video.

What went well

• We now have a better understanding of the narrative of the video

• There’s more of an idea of what we want the video to look like.

• We have more clips to chose from for the video giving us more freedom

• I learnt more about using a camera – How to operate the tripod with the camera and how to get a good shot

What didn’t go well

• We still need to do another shoot

• We don’t have many narrative clips

• We didn’t get many good shots

Aims for the shoot

• Clips that create meaning for the narrative – I would like for us to have many more clips to fill in the video, at this time we don’t have enough clips which communicate the meaning of our narrative to the audience
• To record more close up shots of the performer lip syncing – At this time we don’t have enough footage of my performer to fill the video, it would be helpful to have more of a variety of shots for the video.
• I aim to experiment different shots and areas for the second shoot – using different techniques with the camera such as a pan or a tilt can be another of communicating meaning to the audience.

We have decided that we won’t be needing any props or makeup, and with the costume, our performer will just be wearing casual clothing of their own, Bryce is also responsible for what he’s wearing. We will be filming outdoors so we will not be needing and lighting equipment, all we need is a dslr camera and a tripod

Reflection

Moving forward we have recognised the few things we will need to add or improve for our next draft. We have planned to do another shoot heavily focusing on improving the narrative in the video, whilst editing it is clear we don’t have enough footage establishing the narrative for the music video, we also aim to film more close-up shots of the performer singing the lyrics as their is limited footage to fill the video at this point.

Colour correction will also be a focus for the next draft looking to link the colours in the video to the narrative. Another thing is to change the timing of the cuts in the clips, ultimately to keep the cuts on the beat of the music which is a conventional feature used in music videos.

What Went Well

• We now have a good idea about the setting what shots would be good for the music video.
• We have figured out where we want to shoot and where we can go to apply them.
• We got a few good shots and areas to film in for the next shoot
• learning more about the cameras and how to use them properly with the tripod

What Didn’t Go Well

• Many shots were taken hand held and aren’t good enough for the final video
• Not much of an idea of what was going to happen, no plan
• We found out the camera was out of focus for many shots we had.
• There was some patches covering a small part of the lens for many shots too.
• Not much time to use the tri pod