Evaluation Part Four

Evaluation Part Three

Evaluation Part Two

Evaluation Part One

Final Draft

This is the final draft of our music video. 

Final Draft Showing

Today we showed the final version of our video to our class and teacher. We got positive feedback from all of our class mates, on average they liked the editing and last section of performance.

Some of the comments we received were 
 - "really nice transitions"
 - "good cross dissolves and clean structure"
 - "style works, nice editing"

However people also said "performance bit drags a bit", to make this better we intend to cut shots down and add more in.

Editing

Today is the last time editing the video, there is about 40 seconds left to do. This blank space is going to be filled with the new footage we filmed on monday. This will be with the new projections and costume for the two thirds point so a perspective audience wouldn't be bored.

My Performance

Today was my last time being the actress for Kyla, being in front of the camera on all the shoots was draining. At every shoot I made sure to look at the footage so I could direct myself to get achieve the right shots. It was important that I had my say as I couldn't film myself but the other group members wanted me to be Kyla as they felt I fitted the role most. 

Fifth Shoot

Today was our fifth and final shooting, it went very smoothly as we can now set up all the equipment and get ready in minimal time. The new projections looked really pretty and once edited into the video will work really well. Although I wasn't able to film any of the shoots as I'm in them, I was finding different gifs to project and suggesting shots that Paru and Emily could film.

These are pictures of my costume for the performance, I done my own make up and bought clothes my own clothes. I feel that this look worked really well for the different style of this performance.

Costume For Fifth Shooting

This is the look we will be going for for the new performance shots, its more harsh and dressed up compared to the original shots. So it will signify a change in the song and video. As around the two thirds mark there is a bridge, whereas the rest of the song is repetitive. 

Editing

Since Emily has taken over the editing the process has happened much quicker. She decided to make a new version of the music video, this is because the original video we were editing had become messy and unorganised. This new video has come together really quickly, all that is left to edit is the end section of the video which we will be doing another shoot for.

Fifth Shooting

On monday we are planning to film for the last time. We are going to be shooting performance, we are doing this because we have realised that our performance shots are all very similar, and to add to the two thirds point we wanted a different type of shots. Which will look different to our other performance shots. These new ones will be more dark, which projections of the night sky and galaxies, opposed to beaches and seas. 

Editing Update

Last night me and my group members Emily and Paru stayed behind to continue editing the music video as we need to have a final draft to show to our class. I find it quite overwhelming when I edit the video as we have a lot of footage to use, so Emily has become the main editor.

First Draft Of The Music Video

This is a first draft of our music video, its not a full finished draft. However it still gives an idea of the style we are trying to achieve.

Fourth Shoot

Today was our last planned shoot, after this it will only be for possible reshoots. We filmed at my house again for the narrative scenes. The last time we filmed we didnt get all of our planned narrative shots, so this time we filmed those as well as re shooting some of the shots we did get. We decided to reshoot as last time we were losing sunlight and we rushed to get the shots which then didn't turn out as we would have liked.

Editing

We have uploaded and converted all our footage and have started to get it roughly into order on final cut pro X. However we still have one more shoot planned.

Third Shoot

This was our second time shooting performance shots and third in total. This time around it went much smoother than previously, I was completely comfortable with preforming and we had handled the projector before.

This time we used an upright fan to create wind and movement for my hair and the backdrop. Looking at the footage the effect created is really nice as there is more movement within the frames. We also used two camera shooting simultaneously today, this was really helpful as we got double the amount of shots at the same time.

Paru and Emily were controlling the two cameras while Zara was helping with the costume, fan and other miscellaneous things like the projector and backdrop. In between takes I was looking at the footage and suggesting ideas for the next take, as I am in the video its important I look at what we shoot at the time so I too can see how the shoot is going and how it looks on camera.

Second Shoot

Today was our second time shooting and our first time shooting as a whole group. We filmed at group member Paru's house. We filmed at Paru's house as her family has a white backdrop used for evenys. This was very helpful as it was difficult for us to find a suitable place for us to film in school (as we needed a projector) however our department let us borrow a portable projector. 

So this shoot we used the canon 500D, Tripod, MacBook and a Sony portable Projector.

We started to film our performance shots but I was nervous too mime and perform the song, so it did take around 20 minutes to get comfortable with the filming. It also took us some time to get used to projector. We will need to shoot performance shots again as we didn't get enough variety of angles and shots today.

First Time Filming

Today was our first time filming, it was very successful as we got all the shots we set out to film. However will need another day of filming narrative scenes as one group member was missing we couldn't get scenes with the bridesmaids. Also due to the sun setting we had less time than we would of liked to shoot the outdoors scenes so they were cut short.

Shooting

This weekend group members Emily and Paru and myself will be filming the majority of the narrative scenes for our video. Zara will not be able to attend. We will be filming at my house for the wedding scenes. 

The equipment we will be using is a canon 500D and a tripod, as we want the footage to have natural lighting and feel homemade.

Costumes and Props

- wedding dress
- viel 
- engagement ring
- honeymoon ticket
- flowers
- make-up 

Test Shoot / Photos / Location Shooting

These are photos showing the room the narrative sections of our video will be shot in. 



   









These are photos showing where we plan to shoot the performance sections of our music video.

New Story Boards

Final Poster Design

Final Digipak Design

10 Things That Could Go Wrong in Our Music Video

1 - Weather (if it rains when we are filming our narrative it will ruin it)

2 - Lighting (if the projections don't give enough lighting on Kyla's face)

3 - Equipment (e.g. battery running out on cameras)

4 - Full SD card (no space for our footage)

5 - Performer (not being comfortable in front of the camera and giving an awkward performance)

6 - Costume (not fitting in with our aesthetic or digipaks)

7- Location (not being able to find a location that is suitable and matches our story boards)

8 -  Miming (If our chosen performer cannot mime convincingly it will ruin the video)

9 - Mise-en-scene (if the props and costume are off then the whole video will look wrong)

10 - Not planning our shoots properly will be disastrous.