Music Video Draft 4

Below is our draft 4 for our music video to the song Panic Room. We have improved upon the comments given my fellow media students in order to improve our video. Things we have changed include:

  • Colour correcting all our clips to make them look brighter and less grainy
  • Changed the order of the clips around 0:53 as they were a repeat of the previous clips
  • Faded the shots at 3:17 to black to create a blinking montage

In order to evaluate our video we asked some fellow media studies students for their opinions on our music video. These are their comments below:

Our teacher also gave us some good feedback which has been detailed below:

Specific actions we will take to improve our final draft include:

  • Colour correcting the shots of Min in the bunker
  • Colour correct some shots of Millie
  • More cuts in the performance shots to create more pace
  • Increase shots in jump cut sequence at 3:36
  • Extend the last clip of Millie running and fade to black
  • Change one of the shots of her feet running in the footprints as our peers noticed that it had been used twice

 

Music Video Draft 3

Below is draft 3 of our music video to the song panic room by AU/RA. Specific changes that I have made include:

  • Added the black/white Lumetri colour filters to all studio lip sync shots
  • Changed the scale/position/rotation of the lip sync shots in the bunker
  • Placed narrative over the lyrics “welcome to the” rather than performance shots
  • Reversed/flipped some shots that we have used multiple times for example the hand dragging along the wall and 3:03
  • Quickened the pace of edit by adding more clips to the montage coming up to the last chorus
  • Deleted the clip of out actor looking out the wall as it was too dark and we were unable to get it light enough in postproduction

We asked some of our peers to give feedback and this feedback is listed below:

Amber:

James:

To improve our next draft we will:

  • Correct some of the bunker lip-syncing shots as some have different filters on
  • Reverse/flip the shot at 0:51 so it doesn’t look as if we have repeated the same shot
  • Colour correct some shots by using Lumetri scopes so that they look more vibrant and clear
  • Fade to black at the end where the music is very faint
  • Create a title shot at the start
  • Fade to black between each clip in the location montage at 3:17 to create a blinking effect

 

 

 

Teacher Feedback – screen castify

After we completed our second music video draft our teacher gave us some feedback via a screencastify, which is shown below. Her notes were on the most part positive but there are definitely things to improve upon.

Positives:

  • She thought the jump cut sequences were effective
  • Good editing to the beat
  • Likes the black and white colouring on the lip syncing shots
  • Extreme close ups of for example the eyes are effective

Improvements:

  • Likes the black and white colouring but it should be on all of the lip sync shots
  • Zoom, scale and position some of the performance shots differently
  • Quicker pace and more close ups during the crescendo coming up to the last chorus
  • “Welcome to the” needs to be narrative rather than performance
  • Make the second shot of the chains different e.g. flip or reverse it so people don’t know its the same
  • Try to lighten the clip in the wall as it is very dark

 

Music Video Draft 2 (Includes shoot 2 footage )

Below is our second draft for our music video. There are definitely things that we want to improve upon however I think that there are a lot of aspects in the video that are good.

What went well:

  • The jump cut sequences are effective at portraying our characters fear
  • Most sections are well edited to the beat for example the running montage in the last chorus
  • Good variety of shots e.g close ups, long shots, canted angles
  • Some sections are edited well with effects for example the first 10 seconds

Improvements:

  • Make sure effects are consistent
  • Add a title at the start that flickers with the clips
  • Quicken the pace of edit at points
  • Add filters to make the less in focus/grainy more useable

Feedback

Earlier in the week the Specsavers creative team came in The Specsavers feedback was very beneficial as we now know how to do many new effects.

A particularly beneficial tool that they gave us was the mask tool. This allowed us to merge different shots and move them around the frame creating interesting and dynamic effects. Another tool that was helpful was the adjustment layer which when applied, applies the chosen effect to all the clips  below the layer. This will save a lot of time which leaves us able to create how to work out more effects and cuts which will make our music video more successful. Overall the team seemed to like our music video even though at the time we had not got a lot properly edited and cut.

Later on in the week, creatives from digital greenhouse came in to also look at our video. The team also liked our video but one correction was to quicken the pace of edit when the beat drops to mimic the beat.

An interesting tool that they showed us was how to make sure all of our clips are at the correct brightness and exposure. This is done by creating an adjustment layer and fixing the whites and shadows to get the correct level of contrast, light and exposure. This will be very useful and will save a lot of time as we won’t have to correct every clip and try get them to the same levels.

Shoot 2 Reflection (Narrative)

Below are some pictures of our location narrative shoot at the Guernsey German underground hospital. Overall I think that the shoot went well as we got a wide variety of shots and managed to get all of our narrative shots that were mentioned on our story board

Unfortunately some of our shots could have been better as a few shots were a bit blurry. We don’t think that we need to do another shoot but we might have to zoom some of our shots in to create more close ups as they were the shots that were the least in focus.

Our location also posed challenges as it was badly lit however we came prepared with lights however angling was difficult as we didn’t want many out of place shadows. However due to lighting, after looking back on footage, some shots are a bit dark or grainy. We could either choose not to use the shots or try and edit them to look better with lighting effects and Lumetri colour effects.