Evaluation

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Peer Feedback on Music video

We played our video to our class who then gave feedback of their opinions. The feedback was that it was professional looking, and included that the miming was done well because it was lip synced correctly and the singer looked as though she was getting into the music and taking on a character which showed good acting. They said this was also the case with the narrative, so we both looked comfortable which made the video more enjoyable to watch. They also liked the effects we used which included shooting in monochrome for the studio clips and the overlay effect to look like there were 3 of the same girl running through the woods. The different locations worked and looked thought out to the audience which makes me think they didn’t feel confused at any point and there were no continuity issues. Another comment was that they liked the way we zoomed into the instruments which we got someone to play, which was actually because the person we used didn’t want his face to be shown in it, but this way of working around it appears to have worked in our favor.

The improvements which were said were that we could have used close-ups on the singers face whilst she was performing in the woods, and could have made some of the longer shots a bit shorter. Also the camerawork was a bit wobbly at times which was because we forgot a piece of the tripod when we went filming in Apley Woods so had to do the whole thing handheld.

I asked someone for their interpretation of the meaning of the video and they said:

'the girl who was singing represented the two sides of performing

the business side, as seen in the studio

and the emotional side, in the forest

and the business side of things was 'turning her into a monster'

so she sings in the forest, but with a mic, as a constant reminder of the monster she has to give in to, or something'

Final Edit of Poster

Final Edit of Digipak

Final Edit of Music Video

Filming in Apley Wood

For this we decided to use my DSLR camera which also records video because we had arranged to film this weekend and could not get back to college and charge the original camera-corder. We were worried that there would be a clear difference in the camera quality as it was in HD, but once we started editing we realised that yes it was much better quality, but not enough to stand out. We took a tripod, but forgot to bring the head for it which meant we couldn't use the tripod properly. This meant that some of the shots were really unsteady, but we covered them up as much as possible during the editing because of the fast cuts, as well as placing the camera on fences, tables and tree trunks and holding it the stillest we could. We tried to get as many different angles as possible, but the person i was working with had sprained ankle and a cracked bone in her foot which meant that walking through the woods was difficult for her at times.

Filming in Apley Wood 2

Today we went back to Apley Wood to get the last scene of me wearing the red and black sitting on the peer filmed. We filmed this near to the end of our editing because the idea was that if we still had clips which we wanted to film or gaps needing filling we were going to record today. But we found that we actually didn't need to film anything else, but did take all the equipment and costume down to the lake and record from several different angles to get the right effect. I sat on the peer for about 5minutes in December which was absolutely freezing.