This is the final draft of our music video.

For this draft we have reflected on the points made by our teacher in her screencastify of the third draft and, to improve it we have:

• Increased pace of edit
• Fixed the odd cut at 1:40
• Split up the shots in the chorus
• Fixed someone’s singing in audio but not in video
• Reversed the dolly shot of drumming and use it again
• Looped clip so you don’t see someone isnt singing

Overall I think that we have improved our music video a lot and that this is the best we could do with the footage we have.

This is the feedback I have recieved based on the 3rd draft of our music video. This has allowed us to have another opinion on our video and will help us improve draft 3 to be the best it can be and let us know what details and elements to improve on for the next draft.

Based on this feedback I know we need to work on getting more close ups, using more transitions and to improve the scenes with missing lip sync. This feedback is very helpful and gives us lots to work on in the future to ensure that it is good.

My teacher viewed my groups third draft and sent us this screencastify:

Here are some points that she made:

• During chorus go back to main singer to get connection with him
• Alternate between high and low angle with drumming to increase pace of edit
• Use more close ups of Nate during the chorus
• Odd cut at 1:40
• Chorus holds one shoot for a while
• Someone’s singing in audio but not in video
• Jump cut of logs is good
• Differenta angles is good
• Reverse dolly shot of drumming and use it again
• Pan up- cut before you see nate isn’t singing amd loop
• Increase pace of edit
• Sort out bits were Nate isn’t singing
• Add more pov shots

This feedback is very useful and will be used to allow us to make our fourth draft as good as we can.

Today we were visited by two people from the Specsaver’s creative team. They watched our music video and provided useful feedback based on their experiences in the creative industry. The gave us constructive critisicm about what is needed to be improved for our music video to be a lot better. They taught us about several features of premiere pro such as the ability to seperate our footage into several different bins to be more organised and to aid us in getting footage faster and not have to search through tons of different narrative and performance shots.

Some advice they gave us included;

• Cut out the accidental fourth wall break at 1;28
• To ensure that we start the drumming earlier so it doesn’t have the drummer is waiting around.
• Adding more cuts between the drumming taking advantage of the multiple different angles that we filmed
• Get more close ups of our stars singing

This advice is important as it allows us to improve upon our music videos as well as wha mistakes to avoid in the future to make better products.

Today we were visited by two people from the Specsaver’s creative team. They watched our music video and provided useful feedback based on their experiences in the creative industry. The gave us constructive critisicm about what is needed to be improved for our music video to be a lot better. They taught us about several features of premiere pro such as the ability to seperate our footage into several different bins to be more organised and to aid us in getting footage faster and not have to search through tons of different narrative and performance shots.

Some advice they gave us included;

• Cut out the accidental fourth wall break at 1;28
• To ensure that we start the drumming earlier so it doesn’t have the drummer is waiting around.
• Adding more cuts between the drumming taking advantage of the multiple different angles that we filmed
• Get more close ups of our stars singing

This advice is important as it allows us to know what we need to improve and what to avoid in the future. In the future I will use this feedback to improve on all of my

This is the second draft of our music video. While making this draft we added in the narrative footage that we shot and attempted to line it all up with the music.

After creating this draft and looking back on it it is clear that we have done some things well however there are many areas that we clearly need to improve on such as:

• Start the drumming earlier so it doesn’t have the drummer sitting and waiting.
• Getting a lot more close ups at Sam and Nate as they sing
• Adding more cuts between the drumming taking advantage of the multiple different angles
• Cut out the accidental fourth wall break at 1;28
• Replace some scenes with narrative as there is singing but the actors aren’t singing
• Cut in to a POV more often while swinging
• Record and add in some extra narrative footage of Jaeden’s character remembering and looking back which matches the lyrics.

Here are some pictures from our narrative shoot:

We shot the narrative in 1 day starting first at a small area next to St Stephen’s Church where we recorded the 3 models/actors meeting up and having fun. We tried to ensure that we got good shots from many angles as well as the actors used body language that suited the scene and location. Next we recorded the three of them walking from many different angles while ensuring that we got good shots. Finally we ended up at Cambridge Park where we filmed the three protaganists climbing a tree and altogether hanging out. Across the whole shoot we tried to use the environment arounds us and mise-en-scene to assist with the scene to make the footage look more natural.

Postives:

• We got a lot of footage
• The actors looked convincing
• We did most shots with a tripod
• All of the actors had good mise-en-scene and where weaaring appropriate clothes.

Negatives:

• Some of the footage is slightly wobbly or out of focus
• We were only able to get 3 of the 4 actors from the performance shoot which may be confusing

When filming a narrative it is important to keep a clear sense of the narratives structure and themes as well as ensuring to film to edit so that it is clear how the shots will need to be edited together. It is important to plan these shots so upon filming you know what to do.  It is important to keep a clear sequence of shots as well as to use a variety of shot distances so that you can have many different angles. Planning these shots allows us to be more responsible during the shoot and take all the shots we need for the video.

This is the risk assement for our narrative video shoot. Doing this is important as it ensures that we are safe amd have thought through our shoot and that we won’t be in any dangerous situations or accidents.