04 November 2009

Feedback on the roughcut

Today we received our rough cut feedback for our music video. The main points were:

- Some shots were still a little too dark (We had not added colour correction to some of the cuts so this can be easily solved)

- Some shots are held for just a little too long (we can easily cut these down, In Pete's opinion if a shot is held for more than 2 seconds there needs to be a valid reason why)

- The song is a bit long, 4 minutes is too long for our certain video and everyone in the class is doing a 2 minute video, so there is no need for us to do a video for 4 minutes, perhaps we can use the shortened version we mentioned earlier in the post below 'shortened song version?' or we could simply cut the music as there is a part in the song where the music fades, perhaps this will be better.

- There needs to be some motion in the shots are some are too static, motion added to these would help them and would go better with the faster pace of the song. (We could easily add motion so this isn't a big problem, and have started to add motion after feedback was given.)

- There needs to be more close ups at the end as there were more at the beginning, it would be better if it were consistent throughout. (We can add close ups to the end and have already started to add these after feedback was received.)

- Pete did not understand the empty hall in the video, but had said he had not listened to the lyrics much, however when he listened again it was clear the shot related to the lyrics and he said this was fine. (As we have explained in planning stages, the lyrics 'How do you feel when there's no one?' and the shot shows an empty hall. Matt and I as a pair thought this shot was relevant and added to the feeling of loneliness we tried to create in the song.)

- Pete said with the narrative, it needs to be clear that the shots are flashbacks, so to add an effect to make this clear and this will be easier for the viewer to understand.

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