During the summer my group prioritised filming for our music video as we saw this as our target for summer and a very important thing to do for our future selves in order for us to not fall behind. We filmed in various locations and costumes as well as filming in an array of times in the day to best suit everyone in our group and our actors. The first week back at school we have worked hard to produce a 2nd draft of our music video making sure our work over the summer complies with our chosen genre, goals and target audience. Our group made sure we had a good song to edit to the beat too and although there is some work to be done in some places in order to get it to the standards we want it to be, we are proud of what we have produced in the summer and the first week back.
Self assess criteria checklist
Once we had completed our second draft we had to mark our own work against the criteria in order to create a successful music video and obtain a higher grade.
From doing this activity personally I can see that our group has a the following targets to improve and add in various spots:
Improvements
- Improve our tripod skills making sure to reshoot multiple times in order to create multiple videos of high quality
- Making sure we have all of the shot distances and angles as in some areas you are watching expecting it to cut to a POV or a framing shot and we didn’t film it in this way
- We are wanting to add more video transitions and effects into our music video however this week was just about getting a overall narrative and performance draft of our music video
- Making sure on shoots we are always obtaining the 180 rule and the depth of field etc
What went well:
- We filmed loads of footage over summer so have a choice of what to use
- We had planned our shoots by completing risk assessments etc
- We only had one opportunity to shoot with our costumes and a short period of time however our footage is still a good standard
- Both the performance and narrative shoots work well together
- We edited on the beat effectively
- We have tried and started to experiment with the effects on the software
By taking a step back and assessing what went well and what we need to improve we now have clear objectives of what we need to improve and change. This will be helpful for when we go back to editing our 3rd draft and final draft.
From our second draft we got feedback from our media teacher her feedback is as follows:
- Change a cut to edit so the beat drops on the cut to clip
- Make sure all videos are lined up in the correct sequence
- Do more close ups
- Add in some more exposure and brightness in some areas as shots are too exposed or not exposed enough
- Sharpen some clips in order to get the blur out