27th February 2014

Today we presented our video to the class to show the changes that we have made to the final touches of our music video. We got some very positive feedback saying how we had improved a lot on our music videos and also by the editing too. They mentioned how they really liked the montage that we had included, of all the different types of pictures of us, which makes us seem really carefree and that we are all friends. However, we still need to build up the pace of the video as there are sections which are lacking in this and we need to do this through editing and also by changing certain shots and including more pictures ect. We also need to include the text at the beginning of the music video to indicate the band name and the name of the actual song. I'm really happy with the overall feedback that we have been getting and we will be making the changes to the music video. We will then post this on social networks to get more feedback.

Editing

Today a lot of changes have been made to the music video in order to speed up the overall pace of it. For example, there is a jump cut of us walking and inbetween the shots we have included holly playing the guitar. From doing this is speeds up the pace of the music video and makes it less boring and more visually exciting to watch. 

 Another part where I included more footage is the scene where we are in the arcade and some of the shots are quite long. Instead more shots have been included such as the following screen shots. It speeds up the pace of the song and also corresponds with the song too making it look a lot better!

Leanne mentioned to us for one of the singing sections the footage is too long and it doesn't fit in well with the overall pace as it slows it down a lot. We decided to use lots of shots for this section of older singing footage and cut different sections of it and put them all together. We think that it looks really good and also adds to the overall pace of the video which is what we have been advised to do.

We still need to include the titles in the music video, which can be easily done, and also include more pictures. We like the idea of having a montage of lots of images in the video but we need to workout how to go about it to make it fit in well with the video. By doing this is makes it seem a lot more fun and relates well to the genre of the video.

I have experimented with different effects on the pictures and there is one called 'channel map' which dissolves the pictures into each other. However I am going to look and see if there are other ones which might relate better to our music video.

Editing

We have shown Leanne our music video and asked for her feedback on it. She has said that she likes the beginning and ending of the music video however there are some shots which are held for to long which slows down the overall pace of the music video.
I also agree with this, for example in the music video during the 'dance' section it needs to be faster and more fun. I also agree with this as the overall tone needs to be quicker and we are going to achieve this by including more shots and cutting parts in the video too. We don't need to reshoot anything however we do need to remove some shots as they don't look correct in the position they're in.

2nd Draft Music Video!

Editing

Yesterday and today we have all been editing the music video. Yesterday Holly & Megan edited the new footage into the music video and today I have edited the colours and changed the order of some shots and also replaced some of the shots, and we have finished our second draft.

I changed the shot of us walking towards the camera as the colour of it really didn't fit in well with the music video, so I changed it to an older one of us walking away from the camera as the colour is a lot warmer.

I also changed around some of the positions of the shots to make it match the beat of the song better, for example I changed round the shot of the london eye and the shadow image as the pace of the song works better when they are switched around. We are really happy with the progress that we have made and we like the way that all of the shots have a similar warm feel to them. We will show this to people and ask them on any more changes that they feel we need to do.

Reshooting (4th Feb)

Today we went to Danson to reshoot the sections that we needed to do. This included taking more shots of me singing the chorus section as we used the same one and it was very repetitive. We took a variety of different shots which we feel is a lot better, the weather was also a lot better and sunnier which makes it look better too, and even better than the first ones.

We filmed me singing the first section of the song as the teachers said this was needed, and we still used the map in the shot to apply to Goodwin's theory of a relation between the lyrics and the visuals.

We also took a shot of meg singing the background section as this needed to be replaced and also give her a part in the band as it didn't seem like she was doing anything.

We took more 'selfies' too as the teachers felt that this was a lot more fun and charismatic which is what we wanted to present in our video.

FINAL poster and digipak

This is the final draft for my poster.

This is the final draft for my digipak. I have included two images so you can see the bottom left picture clearly and also to see the dvd better.