This is Draft four of our music video.
What has changed since Draft 3?
- One new thing to draft 4 is a brand new scene of another couple including a band member handing his girlfriend some flowers and Jess rolling her eyes to demonstrate that she is jealous and wishes she was given flowers by her crush. The next shot is Josh picking a flower for her. We added this for more context and also for more interaction with other characters including Jess.
- We have also added new footage of the locker scene as the original footage was not working at all it now flows smoother and it is clear what is happening. We felt this was important as a lot of our feedback was based on reworking this part of the video.
- Another new attribute is the gif graphic hearts at the beginning surrounding the notebook. We added these as we felt those shots were static and boring. These hearts add a pop to our shots and are more interactive and ensure the audience's attention.
- We have also spent a lot of our editing time colour-correcting almost every clip so that they match not only our genre but each other. One of the places that needed the most colour correction was our lighthouse sequence as the shots were very underexposed and connoted a stormy setting when we wanted the scene to connote love.
- We also repositioned the lighthouse clips as our horizon was wonky.
- The final clip has also been adjusted so that it jump cuts to add effect as it is one of the longer clips, we also did this so that the skip is in line with the "hey" at the end.
- We also changed the way that the message shots looked as we felt that it was not working as well as it could have worked.
What is left to change?
- We are going to make any additional colour corrections that we would like to be made as we have not done as much as we would have liked to have done. This includes changing the saturation and exposure of some clips.
- I feel as though we should also add some extra transitions to our video particularly at the end as it gets a little difficult to watch as not a whole lot is happening.
- Another thing we are going to change is the locker scene we want to possibly speed it up or change how the opening of the locker looks.
- Draft 4 still has some clips that may be too long so we are going to see to this and either add effects or shorten them.
Reflection
Overall, this draft is the one that we are the most happy with and the video has made a vast improvement since Draft three. Our video definitely shows this improvement and also has a few things left to configure but in conclusion we are very happy with our draft four. The amount of feedback that we were given on our draft three has really helped our video take shape and has given it a push in the right direction.