Website Progress

This is the 'Enter Site' page of our website which is pretty much complete. Alternative pages are currently in the process of being completed. We are using http://editor.wix.com to create our website which we previously used at AS level when creating a website for the thriller.

Filming Photos

 

Shooting Schedule

Risk Assessement

Editing Issues - General Information Update

As previously mentioned on my previous 'Editing Issues' blog post, I stated that in an attempt to edit our footage using 'Adobe Premier Pro' we were going to transfer the footage from 'Windows Movie Maker' into a full video format and then try uploading that onto Adobe; with the hopes that Windows will have self-corrected our footage from being corrupt. This has proven successful and we are now able to edit using the more advanced Adobe editing software again.

Due to us having no other choice but to upload our entire footage onto 'Adobe Premier Pro', as a whole video format, we then incurred the process of cutting the video down into the individual shots needed to begin editing each shot in sync with the music. Once this was completed, we then had issues trying to shorten our jump cuts down, to be in time with the instrumental guitar beats at the beginning of the song. We eventually overcome this problem by slowing the footage, along with slowing down the song both by 60%, to therefore cut each jump cut precisely in time to the instrumental.

The stage we're currently at, is waiting for the next available day to complete our filming. This is proving difficult as we need to film on a day that everyone is free and the weather needs to be remotely the same as our first successful day filming... The weather hasn't been entirely on our side this last couple of weeks, which of course has put us further behind. We hope to complete our filming over the half term break, when we have more time available.

Callum, Georgia, Oli & Jem.

Audience Feedback

We showed a draft of our music video so far to our target audience in order to gain valuable feedback. Furthermore the target audience could pick out strengths and weaknesses of the draft on what needs improving and what we are doing well (what they like).

Areas of Success:

- Good attention to the pace/tempo of the music in the cuts at the very beginning (editing techniques).

- Good choice of location and proxemics due to the idea wanting to represent a 1960's era but with a modern twist, (represented in the mise-en-scene).

- Good range of camera shots/angles.

- Extremely enjoyable so far.

 

Areas of Improvement:

- Ensure the song is in the highest quality of recording.

- Some footage is slightly over exposed which needs to be edited by adjusting the brightness.

- Continue to build on the narrative which plays to the actors' strengths.

 

Consideration of comments:

As a group we will take on all the comments that our target audience have given us. We are aware of the amount of editing that needs to be done, especially adjusting the lighting in a few of the shots. The audience feedback has been extremely beneficial because as a group we now know what we are doing right and what needs improving in order to gain marks for achieving level 4.