Feedback from the class

I asked the class to watch my rough cut individually and make notes on paper to see what they thought of it. This is what they said: 

- Good use of camera shots
- Camera unsteady at some points in the snow
- Nice story line
- Like the piano parts, it fits the theme of the song
- Sing when she walks in where there are no lyrics?
- Good variety of shots and props- lights etc
- Needs more of a variety of shots
- Good use of miss-en-scene
- Good lip sync- edit of sound to the lip movement
- Engaging video
- Cute video for a love song
- Good use of the black and white effect
- Snow is a nice touch to the video
- Good use of cuts
- Great narrative storyline

Rough cut

Above shows our first edit of our music video. This was put together using our own ideas of the layout and timings. It is now important to gather as much feedback as possible from our target audience, teacher and other people who are not our specific target audience to make improvements to the video.

Editing diary

With all the filming done it is time to put it all together in a first draft of the video (rough cut.) We are using the editing program Final Cut Pro to put our video together as it is the most successful and professional editing we have at college. 

We filmed a large amount of different shots for the video so it has given us a lot of leeway in what shots we use for each part of the video. For the start of the video we concentrated more on the shots of the girl on her own to set the story of her as a main character. Then, as the video progresses we have used different shots of the girl merged in with outside shots of the couple in the snow to bring them into the story of the girl's life. The video doesn't have a very detailed story line but we have used facial expressions within the video to tell of the girls jealously of the couples relationship.

Using Final Cut Pro we wanted to achieve a video with a smooth run from shot to shot so it looks professional. It is important during this stage of editing to match the song to the exact same part where the lip's move on the clip. We make sure this happened by matching the lip to the music and playing it back to make sure it is done perfectly in time.

Filming photographs

Below shows evidence of our 3rd day of filming including filming, looking back on our work and make up. 

Filming day 3

Today was our second day of actual filming. Lots of snow fell over the local area so we decided to take advantage of the way it made everything look so peaceful and beautiful. It really matches the genre of our music video because of the connotations that snow gives. EG. Romance, laughter, fairytales. An example would be the very famous Christmas music video for 'All I want for Christmas is you' by Mariah Carey shown below.

 We set up our camera in an untouched patch of snow on the college field. Hayley from our group played the artist as before in our indoor shots. We filmed in the same way that we did last time because it worked successfully and made editing easier. This was by filming the song the whole way through in each style of shot. We did a long shot, mid shot, close up and a side shot. Then during editing we can pick the best parts of each shot for parts of the video. This is more successful doing it this way because we have clips for the whole song in every style so there is a lot of leeway on the shots we can use for each part of the video.

We also filmed parts of a boy and girl not lip singing but just acting. These were clips of them playing in the snow together, holding hands and looking generally loved up. This will be edited along side the lip singing to show the artist's jealously of the couple.    

Filming day 2

Today we planned to do our outside filming for the video. This plan had to be cut short due to heavy rain through out the day. The conditions were too bad to take a camera out in and would have spoilt the effect of the video. 

So, we changed the plan for the day, we are now going to do our final piece of inside filming. This will be only a short section where a males hands are seen playing a piano. These clips will hopefully be cut into small sections of the music video alongside outdoor clips.

We have now planned to film tomorrow- weather permitting! We plan to film in a local park called Ashcombe park. The park itself is quite sheltered by big trees so if it does rain filming can hopefully still take place! 

One of us girls from the group will be staring in the outside filming, we are also bringing in a male from outside of college to star as her ex boyfriend.

Storyboard animatic

Above shows my video animatic of my storyboard, this is my storyboard cut more specifically to show single shots we plan to shoot. I have put the animation alongside our song choice so we can see specific timings of each shot and how it coincides with the music.  

Storyboard

Below shows my storyboard for the whole of my music video. I have included the lyrics of the song that fits to the image that will be shown at the same time. The storyboard has helped to plan out our video and work out timings for each part of the video. 

For the video we have planned in our storyboard to create a happy medium between a performance based video and a narrative story. This will hopefully maintain the viewers interest through out the video as there will be varied locations.

Researching into pop music videos has given me clues to the conventions of a pop music video. I have included close up shots of the artist, different locations and shots which may encourage the audience to look at the artist in a sexual way. This is common for a pop music video. 'Your Song' could maybe be seen as slightly in the style of an indie song, so I have included outdoor locations and natural colours which is a know video convention of an indie music video. Ben Howard's 'Keep your Head up' as shown in my research is a good example of outdoor locations and natural colours in an Indie music video.      

Filming day 1 photographs

Here are some examples of photographic examples of our first day of filming. These photos show us setting up our backdrop for the video. We shared roles and took it in turns to do the filming, manage the music, etc.