more feedback...bore!!!

This is the feedback we revieved from the class we swapped with, for the day to share critical analysis of eachothers videos:

genre: dub/electronica/techno

relationships: Cant really understand lyrics. As each induviduals part of music ends, gradually goes back to real life. Wobble effect is cool with appropriate bits. When second beat kicks in, play is pressed on i-pod!! colours, dancing and movement good with music. Lip synching not good. shaking effect good when bass is part of song. visuals all the same: boring towards the end.

Camerawork: shots mostly framed well, camera shakeing good. Beginning cuts best, camera moving up and down.

editing: Mirror image flipped, rewind effect is realy good. Shaking effect with the fade works well. quick edit at start is brilliant sets the scene. END IS GOOD!!! lots of quick edits enable us to keep interested and not get bored!! LOVE IT!!

mise-en-scene: Some of the locations worked well, others really didnt...B&B???!!

special effects: Enhanced colours good. I love the performing midget...love u james!!!!

analysis of our music video, including feedback

santagold - creator

camerawork:

as a group we believe that our camera work was really good, while we were shooting we made sure we capture or footage from different angles and with different camera shots so this way we would have a variety f shots to choose from for our editing. as a feedback form our class they agreed that we had lots of hand-held shots which work very well with the music, shots with the camera shaking were very good and well used. the end works very well because it adds to the fun and wacky relationship between the artists, this also reflects what the video is about. variety of shots makes it look impressive throughout.

editing:

the best feature of the video. we as a group believe we had an equal input in each section of the making of the music video, although we did put much more effort into the editing. This was because we thought that the editing was the most essental part of portraying our video as the crazy and fun creation that we hoped for. As part of our feedback, the rest of our class agreed that the shots change with the musical beat. noise shake fits visual shake, and there is a good variety of shots and good screen split.

mise-en scene:

We chose to use three different settings for the three different characters, this was to emphasise the induviduality of the people. For our shooting we made sure that we used our locations to the MAX, making sure we took advantage of everything each location had to offer us. We chose our costumes very specifically to represent the thre of us as bright, fun, weird and wacky induviduals. The bright colours and bold letters and crazy patterns threw out our perforances even more, making them more rememberable. People in our class had this to say: "RAVE!!!! lots of bright colours saturated and vibrant. really fits with the song, very cool visual style. works well with the electric song. like the urban setting, fits with the style. ending shots are wicked. good light and grungy background. trippy, drug influenced!! nice!!"

specail effects:

We wanted to add a few special effects from the start, although we knew that we didnt want to overdo it, as you can have too much of a good thing. We used a split screen effectively and we used colour change on some darkroom clips. We also used reverse effects on two of the clips when it was relevent as it worked well with the words of th song. We also wanted to make the whole piece much more bold and bright by saturating the whole piece!!! here is what the class had to say: slowed down shaky bits were really cool. reversed leaves bit is good and surreal. red bits showed energy, liked colour correction - worked nicely!!

Intensive class feedback

Genre: Techno, electric, indie. New rave dress code, bright colours and urban streets
. The editing communicates the type of genre really well. Abstract. Makes up for lack of narratve - the editing keeps audiences interested.

relationships: the song is crazy, weird music, weird dancing, wierd places. fits with music and lip-synching is good.

camerawork: lots of hand-held shots which work very well with the music, shots with the camera shaking are very good. the end works very well because it adds to the fun and wacky relationship between the artists, this also reflects what the video is about. variety of shots makes it look impressive throughout.


editing: shots change with beat. noise shake fits visual shake. good variety and good screen split.

mise-en-scene: RAVE!!!! lots of bright colours saturated and vibrant. really fits with the song, very cool visual style. works well with the electric song. like the urban setting, fits with the style. ending shots are wicked. good light and grungy background. trippy, drug influenced!! nice!!

sfx: slowed down shaky bits were really cool. reversed leaves bit is good and surreal. red bits showed energy, liked colour correction - worked nicely!!

plan of action!!!!!

for the next few sessions we will be, editing the rest of our video. Making sure to add effects and transitions that make the video complete. we will be using extra hours as our editing is very detailed and we need more time than we anticipated. the extra hours will probably be spent after half term. in evening sessions at long road.

intensive feedback

This is the feedback that we recieved from the other memebers of our media class:

camera work:
Lots of really good different angles. good amount of shots, everything is in time, variety of shots makes it more interesting. good framing which worked well with pace of music. some shots not in focus but that makes it better.

editing:
good pace of editing, and good use of slow motion clips maybe use a variety of effects. god cross of editing, lip synching needs to be improved. good movement in shots. quick fast editing makes it exciting.

effects:
slow motion looks really good and so does the fast motion at the end. worked well with the genre. like the way at the beginning where we go from the shots with each person. shows the link.other footage and shots are allright.

mise en scene:
good variety of locations, costumes looked good and matched the theme of the song. interesting places, looks good as a background. exciting locations.

performance:
believeable acting, confident dosn't look cheesy. good performance such as the dancing bt more performing with lip synch. dancing shots are authentic. successful performance. fits well with music.

continuity:
clips work well one after the other - no jumpy parts. made sense, it reflects its genre well. blank black space probably because you havent fineshed.

Rough cut

This is only part of what weve done so far :) enjoy...

Plan for music video

Pan for Music Video

1st part

It starts with three quick long shots of the three different settings we are in, during the video.
-Railway Station/ Mill Road Bridge
-Grafton Subway
-Backstreets of Hills Road


The next 3 shots are slower than the first 3. It introduce the characters, and the maind idea of the video, that is the characters escaping from reality through the music provided by the i-pod. These shots are not as quick as the previous ones but they are fairly quick.
These scenes will be shot using close shots of the characters faces.
-1st shot. close shot of 1st character at mill road bridge. It will be showing the character turning the i-pod on.
-2nd shot. Close shot of 2nd character at Grafton Subway putting the i-pod on.
-3rd shot. Close shot of 3rd character putting the i-pod on.

-4th shot. Extreme close shot of the song being selected on the i-pod.


After the shot of the ipod is shown is where the video really starts, going from the everyday style to the outfits that the characters will be wearing during the song. We are considering to put a transition effect to make it more exciting. The effects that first come into mind are:
-swirl, so the 3 shots swirl together.
-some sort of scratchy effect, meaning that the screen will sort of tremble and it will get quicker before fading out to the new settings.
(These effects are not necesserily the ones we will use)



After the main transaction effect the three characters appear on camera on a split screen and with a quick glance from the public at their new outfits they go their separate ways.
-the shots used in the split screen will be ong shots so the new appearance of the characters can be seen by the audience.


After the final introduction the video becomes simpl but complex. Every charcter sings and dances to the song in their different settings, all th dances and rouines will be different as they aren't choreographed but free style. During this middle part of the video we are going to have a variety of shots:
-long shots
-medium shots
-close shots
angels shots >Bottom up
>up-down
>Sideways