Bens Feedback

Today we had a visit from Ben a music video editor and director from London. He has helped bands such as Dogs Die in Hot Cars and Keane. He looked through are video and he got a clear indication of what we are trying to achieve ( a group getting ready and going on holiday. He pointed out that there is not a great build up to the end of the song. Also that some of our choerography was out of time (the post box scene). He gave us some ideas to have more cheeky behavoir pranks and gags in the video. Also to speed up some of the scenes to fit with the tempo of the music. We now are going into detail on key scenes we need to refilm and how we ae going to go about it. We have only one day of filming in the half term to get what we need so this feedback was really usefull to get organised for the day of filming.

Next step...

-Over half term we are going to film the postman section again, we are going to get an adult to play the postman because it will be more believable.
-Also we are going to film the post box section again, we are going to have more movement from behind the postbox. make sure the camera is in the center.
-When editing we need to make the live performance look brighter.
-Take a picture of the five of us on holiday, to post through the letterbox at the end of the music video.
-Need to film a couple kissing on a bench, the break them up and stick a stamp on there head.
-Get the boys to have a kick around then Harriet and Natalie run of the middle of the game and stick a stamp on a player.
-When editing we need to put some transitions in.

Feedback

These are the main views people gave from our class, after seeing our rough cut:

Positive:
-Awesome!!
-Like the bit with the post box
-Nice editing throughout especially at the start
-good use of different locations
-Shots suited the song
-Really liked the train shots
-Was funny
-Good ending
-like the postbox sections

Negatives:
-some guitar playing not in sync
-the Spain letter doesn't come into time with the lyrics
-James and dean, meant to be one person
-cant really tell they were stamps being stuck on peoples faces, maybe needs a close up
-'Spain' writing looks a bit weird

This is our rough cut (enjoy)

Today we finished our roughcut for the music video. Its starting to really take shape though still needs perfecting. We need to go back to some of the locations we filmed and film bits and peices again. This will be mainly getting the choreography in time a looking in sequence. We also may go back and film the postman scenes again. We will also add a few special effects especially with the transitions between one scene to another. For example a flash when harriet takes a picture in front of the camera.

Everyone has editing problems

Today we found that the soundtrack was out of time with the lip syncing throughout the second half of the video. We ended up having to go through every single scene and changing it to fit with the song. This was extremley frustrating as the video was finally coming together ready for the roughcut. Hopefully we will be able to sort it by the end of the day.

postman/suitcase scene

This afternoon, we filmed the sequence where the postman delivers the postcard through the letterbox.We got Dean to dress up as a postman and filmed him from an upstairs window posting letters to another house and then walking towards our house as if to deliver the letters. We then filmed a close up of him actually pushing the leaflets and the Spain postcard through the letterbox. We also filmed the same bit again but without posting a postcard through because at the end of our video, we don't receive any other postcards meaning that the video has finished.

Also today, we filmed the suitcase packing scene again using a different bag and doing more fun stuff which goes a lot better with the cheery upbeat rhythm of the song.

Tup Pub

Today we went to the Green Man pub in Thriplow. We filmed the last of us placeing stamps onto peoples heads. Here we filmed a local punter ordering a pint then to have the suprise of two of us coming in and stamping him. We had a small problem with turning the camera as the camera was too heavy on one side. Though we managed to get the footage we needed after two takes. The staff at the Green Man were extremeley helpful.

Cellar Bar 8

well today we filmed our live performance at cellar bar 8. we couldnt get any drums down there so we just had me and natalie on guitars and tom and james singing with mics.

we did lots of different angles and we each did a performance on our own so we have some close ups. we decided to use the disco flashing lights, but this didnt really show up on the camera. it was quite dark down there so sometimes the camera went a bit blurry and wouldnt always focus, so we made sure we had lots of footage to chose from.

Animatic

Hi there - you need to right up the feedback

Steve