Feedback for our Music Video

This is the feedback we received for our Music Video:

Camera

Positive 

-good camera angles

-no shaking, steady

-piano solo good

-edit shots and piano shots vary

-a good variety of long, mid and close-up shots

-not overdone

Negative

-more shots of narrative

-boring narrative

-running shots don't make shots 

Editing

Positive

-the fades and overlaps look well organized and placed intricately

-shots of Edd effective

-lots of cutaway's and fades

-smooth editing

Negative:

-too many overlaps, made the screen slightly opaque

Production Design

Positive

-nice setup in the studio (lights etc)

-kept the song instrumental based

-enjoyed performance 

Negative

-the colours are different in the two setups

Narrative/Concept and Music Track

-not sure the story is understandable

-the visual styles don't match to the power of the song

-piano focus repetitive

-needs back story

-confusing narrative 

progress report 1/2/13

today the Matiss needs to upload the footage that we took on wednesday and then edit the cello sequence that we filmed and then place the sequence in the right order and the project will be finished we should hopefully be finished by Monday. Jamie and Ed will assist with the editing to place the sequence in the right area. Tom is ill today

Progress report 28/1/13

Since we couldn't film last friday, we have booked the studio to film for after college on Wednesday. We have found an actor to mime the cello part on the track who will also film with us on Wednesday. because of this, we will need to sign a booking sheet to book out a camera, a dolly, a tripod and a stills camera. As for the others, Matiss is finishing the editing of our video and Ed is storyboarding the new sequences.

Progress report 25/1/13

Today, we decided to film in the drama studio later after college, where we will film the last remaining shots that we need to complete the video. I will also print out some of the remaining pieces that are needed for the portfolio later in my free period.

production report 21 january 2013

today with the snow falling and ED and Tom not being here Jamie and Matiss continued with the editing process so hopefully on friday we can start to print of the final pieces needed for the portfolio and ED and Tom being here to help finish the remaining pieces needed to be completed

Progress report

In today's lesson, after advice from our teacher, we decided to change some of the previously planned footage for the narrative to footage that we felt would be less complicated to film, such as scenes of a birthday, and classroom to fit in with the lyrics, and a scene of a cello player to fit in with the other instrument in the song. Below is our plane for these shots which we drew out on the white board.

Production design: costumes and make-up

This is the production design for our music video

Costumes and make up

Ed - Piano player and Singer

Smart/Casual, White jumper and black trousers, no make up

Jake - Cello

Smart, Navy blue suit jacket, white shirt, Navy blue trousers

Matiss - Protagonist

Casual - Jumper and Jeans, no make up

Set and props

Music

Large, dark room with piano in the middle, spotlights

Narrative

Set in streets, dolly used for tracking shots

Progress report Friday 18th 2013.

Today we are continuing with the editing and filming in the cello shots after college today, thanks to Ed for advance booking of the drama studio. Tom and Jamie are still going through our portfolio with the help of Matiss, when he isn't busy editing our music video.

We are nearly finished our video, little else to do really, Steve says that our group is far ahead of the others, which makes booking cameras easier because there is little competition. E-mailed Matt Coulson thanking him for letting us use the drama studio.

All that is really left to do is complete the editing, print off the mood board, but Tom is doing that tomorrow, so there is really nothing to do. . . .I suppose we could film the rest of the narrative shots, but  I honestly think our video would still look amazing without it, but maybe if we have some time left over at the end of the day.

equipment prices

this is the list of the equipment that we have used for the project and the prices that they will cost

Equipment prices

Sony camcorder  Sony NEXVG10EBDI Handycam Camcorder with Interchangeable Lenses and Digital HD Video Quality  £1,890.66

  

Sony VCL-HA07A 0.7x Wide Conversion Lens For Handycam £24. 55

Stanley Intellilevel 1-77-201 Camera Tripod with Tilting Head £20.04

PROAIM™ Swift Dolly System with 12ft Straight Track

£195.00

Canon PowerShot A2400 16MP Compact Digital Camera - Black. £89.99

Progress report Monday 14th January.

Today, Matiss is continuing the editing process, which is coming along with exceptional quality, Jaime is currently going through our portfolio and completing any incomplete work, mostly any drawings that are in need of inking, or adding ideas into the narrative storyboard which could be included in the later stages of filming. Ed is currently shot logging all of our clips we have taken, which is a long and tedious process, currently on his 4th one.

I have also included some screen grabs of Matiss editing work, just to give you an idea of how detailed our project is becoming:

Our progress so far, complete with the MP3 of the song. 

The video clips of the music video, incorporating fades within each clip, for a smoother transition.

The un-edited footage in 'Final cut' 

The initial stages of the editing process.

Both viewing screens showing different clips, making editing much easier , so you can make a smooth transition.

Progress Report (Monday 7th January)

Today, Ed booked out the Drama studio for next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to film the music part of the video. Unfortunately, I (Tom), may not be able to make these dates because I have band practice after college on Wednesday and Thursday and a musical performance gig after college on Friday. Also, this lesson Jamie went through our portfolio and checked off things that still need to be done. He found that we were missing our moodboard but later found that it was on the blog. I will print it out at a later date. Matiss continued editing and is still doing very well.

Promotion ideas for the music video

Now that we've nearly finished the music video, we've been encouraged to come back to our research on the target audience and think about how our video should be promoted to them.

                 My initial idea is to advertise the video on Youtube in the advert section of other videos, since the typical target audience that we chose will probably listen to their music on Youtube. I also thought of advertising the song as a cover or newer rendition of the track to appeal to the younger generation.

Mad World Screen shots

this is a screen shot of the editing for the final video for Gary Jules Mad World so far we have uploaded the outside sequence and the pianist sequence as well but on this screenshot it was before we put the footage on. Mattis is are Editor so he will complete the final video for are group project. At the moment we have nearly edited the pianist sequence using some great effects and the lights which we brought in really makes the sequence look more effective to watch and feels like a proper music video. Mattis needs to edit the outside sequence and then the whole project will be complete which we hope should be before Christmas which will be a result as we will finish the project early and to a high standard.

more storyboards

these are some more storyboards that we have made for the filming process one of the sheets is for the pianist shots and the others are for the outside shots the outside shots show all the shots that took during are filming process a couple of weeks back. Having the more storyboards shows that we are showcasing are selfs to show that we can plan the whole video and have the planning process to show that we are following what we designed and sticking to the brief that was set for us. We need to draw out some more pianist shots to back up are ideas so we know when to show are process we can display are work.  

Friday 7th december 2012.

Today Matiss is finishing the editing from the footage we have taken so far, Jamie has been writing up session report sheets and Tom has been adding to the storyboard and filling in any missing gaps in our yellow portfolio. Getting pretty tired of this song already...

The crew at work.

Filming in the drama studio - 'The stage' 05/12/12.

Matiss on the camera, since out actual camera operator Jamie was unable to make the date , Ed was playing the role of the pianist and Tom was teaching me how to play the various key's on the piano.

The light's that Steve supplied us proved to be of exceptional use, we placed them around the piano and gave one of the lights a red wash, which gave a nice crimson glow over the piano. However one of the three lights that we had  failed to work, so we were only left with two, but even with one light out of action the other two proved more than their worth in making up for the downed light. 

This was one of the close up shots that we had of Ed on the piano, we took numerous shots of Ed on the piano ranging from a pan shot to a close up of Ed playing the keys on the piano.

This is a still of Ed lip syncing the song 'Mad world', we took several takes of Ed lip syncing the song, but since he knew the song word for word, and clearly moved his mouth to match the words of the song, which will prove useful when it comes to syncing the video up with the audio track.

Another shot of Matiss and Ed in the studio, this was where we were taking shots of Ed using mime to pretend to play the piano so it would look more authentic when we got to the editing stage. 

A slightly blurry shot comprised of one of our lighting stands which was positioned downstage left of the piano since there was a lack of plug sockets we had to stretch the wires along the floor which proved quite dangerous and our camera operator did catch the wire couple of times, but thankfully no fatality's, however there were some jolted shots and colorful language exchanged with our camera operator and  the wire, after this we re-evaluated and amended the pink risk assessment sheet so it included the dangers of overstretched wires, we decided to use Tom as a 'Grip' to guide the camera operator around obstacles.

Matiss, compiling the footage that we had filmed the previous day, and commencing the editing process. 

Current work on the 3/12/12

Today, Matiss has begun to edit the footage we have taken so far with the help of Jamie, whereas I was bringing Tom back up to speed with what he had missed, and explaining what we had done, I was also righting up the work that Matiss, Jamie and myself had been doing the previous day, when we went out to film by addenbrookes. Tom has since been righting up a session report sheet showing our progress and the results of the lessons work.

Filming on the 2/12/12.

Last Sunday, Matiss, Jamie and myself were filming in the field by Addenbrookes hospital. During this 40 minuet filming session we started work on shot's 6-8 (the running to the hill scenes). Since we forgot to take stills on the day, I have posted the post-it notes, showing what we were doing that day. However we did not get around to filming on the hill, since the camera battery was running low, displaying the icon of 19 minuets left.

This is shot 4, a long shot showing the back of the protagonist looking up into the sky. This is the shot that we never got round to filming because of battery related issues.

 Shot 7, the hand held camera shot, from the point of view from the protagonist, this was filmed by the fields at addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge.

Shot 8, canted side shot of the protagonist jogging/ walking out from a wall, after looking at his phone.

Location recce

these are the location recce of the possible areas of where we could film are music video. the two locations are the music practice rooms and the drama studio stage respectively for the locations that we could use for the final video. the photos show the rooms that we use and also the possible risks that could happen if we did not create the health and safety sheets to show what are the possible risks are and how we can minimize the risk. with the pink health and safety sheets complete we can then start to film in the area knowing that people are aware of the dangers that are around them and how easily it can be avoided the sheets are a big process in the film production.

Day report sheets and finished narrative sheets.

Location, Narrative story board and 9 key frames sheet's.

Todays lesson we have been filling in some sheets, ranging from the location sheets to the narrative story boarding. I have included images of the sheets we have been filling in so you can see what exactly we have been up to and the progress we have made:

We have also had a meeting to discuss our plans for the future filming of this project, in our meeting we discussed what to do for the locations, what shots we would like to include in these shots. We have also  been attempting the think of a storyboard for our secondary character, who we don't even know who to cast the part for. There have been several ideas but to no avail. However our group has progressed through the sheet planning stage and we now have a narrative storyboard, which we shall develop and further capitalize on. Below is an image of Steve's board of lesson work which I have included since it gives the general lesson plan with all you need to start the story boarding and shot listing process:

Schedule

We have started filling in our music video project schedule. This will show the key dates in our production.