Final Piece XD

Music Video Feedback

When the rest of our class were showed our final Music Video, this is the feedback we recieved:

The genre of this music was "Woman Rock" or Rock, and our video suited the conventions of the genre well.
The target audience could possibly be 18/19 year olds, but probably has no specific audience.
The camera work was good, we had a good variety of camera angles.
A member of the class particularly liked the green ribbon being "shot in front of the sun" (the light.)
Another member of the class liked the shot of Flossy running through the field, and thought it worked well within the music.
The shot of Charlie playing the drums and Flossy&Sophie from the side was also mentioned as a good shot.
Some members of the class also mentioned the opening scene, and said they liked how the light, followed by the traffic in the dark, then the ribbon, then Sian miming worked really well and looked fluent.
They thought the editing was good, and the mise on scene worked really well; the field worked within the music, and it gave us plenty of space, and the video was well spread out instead of a band just crammed in a small space.
Most of the class really liked the ribbons and thought they went well, especially as they were used throughout the music video instead of just for a bit of it. However one member of the class did not understand the ribbons and thought it was a bit too irrelevant.
The lip syncing was really good throughout.
An influence of our video was the ribbon used in the live performance of the song by the lead singer of the band, no similarities of other bands/songs/videos were picked up on.
The music video was said to have a "chilling" effect on the audience.

A couple of bits of negative feedback were that the shot of the traffic could have been used more throughout the video, and that there were a couple of subtle mistakes within the shot. E.G. Sophie chewing and nodding through one of her shots, and me talking through one of mine. However one member of the class said that this talking and nodding gave off a sense of us having fun in the field instead of just performing.

change of location...

we ended up changing the location of the band being on top of a grassed hill to a long grassed field as when it came to moving all the props such as the drum kit we realised we were being very unrealistic, furthermore it would have been difficult to use the camera and tripod on such a slant. overall we prefer the new location as it has enabled us to create (fingers crossed) a perfecrt ending...

filming...

The day we first got the camera we did alot of footage in town of Sian's main singing bit and a few small other bits, this was so that we could get the basic outline of the video right and start to get the basic lip syncing done. One of our next targets was to get some footage of each individual so we could make a suiatable rough cut. This involved alot of footage at night in Cambourne, we tried to do severall takes of each setting but from different angles so that we can vary the image in our final piece.
We chose settings such as fields, a lake, a business park and an alley, we used lighting to help make the footage look professional.One of the things we were really pleased with was the filiming of the traffic which will be used sped up so that it has effects used on other music videos.

After succesfully uploading the footage we began to edit and created a suitable beginig, our main focus after this was to get sum more footage as we had small detailed clips but needed some bulk to fill the time.
This was our main focus for day 2 of filming.

Our second day of filming began in Cambourne and we went to collect the drum kit and carried it to our location. we had to flatten some grass and do some test footage to see how it looked. this worked well and we also had a nice background as the sun was about to set with clouds in frobt, this looked good but wasnt too bright to interfere witgh what we were filming.

along with getting alot of footage of the band playing together we together created a brilliant idea for a possible ending. it consisted of all the band members running into the libne of the horizon, this could work really well with a fade.

We are now in the editing process and cant wait to see the end product!