This week, Jemima and I added our narrative footage to our music video to form draft 2 of our video.

Draft 2:

In order to improve our video we have completed a self assessment and got feedback from our teacher. This allows us to reflect on ourselves and our skills in editing, camera skills and genre conventions as well as set targets and goals for the next draft.

Below is the success criteria and ticked boxes to show where we think we lie on each element and skill.

What went well:

• Use of the tripod throughout narrative shots and camera movement is relevant such as canted angles that imply chaos and show action.
• Video clips sync well with the words and most to the beat as well.
• All footage is visually pleasing and we have plenty to help convey the story through editing.

To Improve on next time: 

• Attention to rule of thirds and the 180 rule – we have a variety of footage but at some points have neglected these rules in favour of our preferred footage, even if the angles don’t follow these rules.
• Effects – so far we don’t have any effects in our video, we wish to improve on this by doing things like adding filters to wedding scenes to differentiate from performance and narrative, crop and refine videos where unwanted things are in the background and use some transitions to make the video flow better.
• Sequencing – we feel that we’ve rushed into the narrative too much and that the story is not spread out in a way that goes with the song and is not consistent in how much we display in the narrative:performance ratio.
• The video ending – we want to refine the ending by making the narrative ending more clear and having less performance.

Teacher Feedback: (Image below)

• Stabilise pan at the start
• What is she looking at when picks up the phone (include close up)
• In the dress sequence add a filter to represent future
• Make sure all performance footage is focused
• Close up of Groom for reaction shot
• Crop out the ice cream van
• Extend the video where she first hits/smashes the cake
• Add a glitter/flower filter

Self assessment and teacher feedback has helped me to learn how to analyse my work against a success criteria as well as see it through an outsider audience perspective. It’s important to take a step back and reflect on the video so that we ensure we have a good final product.