COMMENTARY

This is our final commentary, we used clips from the music video and of the speakers as well as using the music in the intervals between clips.
Enjoy!

Final Commentary Video

DigiPack

Made up track listings

Alice in Blunderland
The Boy who Ate Cats
Mcfly
Uninspired
The Tale of Little Brian
Bush Woman
No Shit, Sherlock
Iron Dragon
Dom
King Thrushbeard
Esther Chocolate And The Previous Comment
Solitude and the Everlasting Pain.

Feedback from other groups on our video

-Good relationship between the lyrics and the visuals but is a bit confusing sometimes
-The story is entertaining
-Red Riding Hood was a good contextual choice
-Good narrative and performance
-Performed very well and convincingly
-Conforms to the genre
-Mysterious look and feel
-Professional look
-Perfect filters, not too dark or too light
-Didn't feel like a typical fairystory
-Good use of close-ups for performance.

Correspondance between Group and Max

These are the messages between the group and Maxim who played our woodcutter.
There was indeed cake.

Rough Cut - Group discusion

This is a collection of thoughts and ideas we have compiled on our rough cut, this is to help us work out what has worked what needs changing and where to go with it next. We have had some feedback from other groups which has also influenced some of the ideas we have here.

Editing:
             We have to make sure we keep our style of editing fluent for the whole video ~ This means       that filter effects use the same settings and cover all the clips ~ We also could use transition effects to move between the singing scenes and the acting scenes in a more interesting way this might mean using a fade or similar effect to transition smoother.

We also need to cut more and avoid staying with one camera shot for two long and to help create a sync between the song and the video by cutting on the beat and making sure both the audio and visual come together well.

Camera:
             Our camera work seems to cover most of the basics and has an alround good effect however there is a few parts that can still be worked on this mainly means that when we cut between shots we take in account the effect different shots can have and cut acordingly. This should make sure there is good flow and we dont break continuity or confuse the audience by suddenly cutting to a strange angle.


Performance:
                     Our performance focuses around the story of little red riding hood we need to make sure that this is obvious and make sure the links are clear, while its not the same its important that the audience notice it as if they dont then that defeats the point of using it as a background reference to the song. This means we must keep a clear coherent focus on the characters to make sure it noticeable, while the singing sections wont really inforce this so much if used in conjuction with the performance it should help make the 3 characters The Wolf, The Woodcutter and Red riding hood easily recognisable.

Genre conventions:~

Review of P1-02 rough cut

P1-02 Rough Cut Analysis

Editing:

Faster cuts

More cuts especially for the last chorus, could easily incorporate shots from earlier choruses.

2^nd walk at the end should be cut out, and go straight to bed shot for continuity.

Needs to fit music better, cuts on beats etc

Perhaps filters added, contrast etc because lighting is a bit dull.

Filter added to walking shots/memories?

Shots between present and flashback should have a special effect/transition.

Mise en Scene:

Worked well, good choice of locations and props.

Costumes also well chosen.

No complaints about this.

Camerawork:

Some really good long shots and close up shots.

Not much movement but fits in with the song.

Camerawork would work better if the shots were cut and changed more often.

Genre Elements:

A lot of focus on the lead singer.

Good use of flashbacks to give context to the song.

Very sort of boy-girl song.. typical of genre.

Use of makeup created a nice effect.

Performance:

Lip-synching was good, well timed, singer obviously learnt the words.

Acted performance was good, fitted the genre.

Could have benefitted from more movement.

Could have done with seeing male character more to make us understand why she’s singing the song.

What and how to improve:

Improve last chorus with extra cuts and faster shots.

Filters on flashbacks.

Shoot more footage of male character for backstory.

ROUGH CUT

 

This is the rough cut of our music video project. Overall we are happy with it, although some further editing is needed and obviously, it needs to be finished.

Because we had to export it on a small resolution it plays a bit slower than it should, but we will be exporting in HD for the final piece.

Plans

This is our filming plan for various shots we need.

Contact With Milton Country Park

Contact With Artist - Facebook

Contact With Artist - MySpace

Test shot of Western Stand Off

 

It works when you click it. This is demonstrating an idea we had off a western stand off style shot.

Arron and Amar's Presentation

• The music video must be visually engaging
• The first 30 seconds are the most important, if they audience aren't drawn by then, they're likely to turn over
• pre-planning is important- pre visit locations and make sure they are suitable for filming
• cover the performance aspect 3 or 4 times, using different angles and shots
• shoot lots of footage so you never run out of things to include
• don't use a complete narrative
• schedule shooting
• Block
• complete a digital storyboard

2ND TEST SHOT

Basically, same as the first test shot, although this one shows skipping. Sorry it's sideways.

TEST SHOTS

No, they're not brilliant, but they are just ideas of how we could film the chasy scenes in our RRH music video.

This is how one of our chase scenes could look if filmed from the wolfs perspective.

Costume Ideas

Generic Woodcutter..... (possibly played by Maxim Thompson)

Generic Red Riding Hood.... (played by Esther North)

We haven't chosen a typical wolf costume, as we prefer the simplicity of the wolf mask, as well as the flexibility of actual clothing. 

Possible Location Ideas

For our filming location, we've thought of Milton Country Park. Its easy access and provides a decent location to film our forest scenes. There is also a Tesco fairly near by which gives us easy access to food and drink so that we may film all day without getting hungry.

Background Research - Little Red Riding Hood

For our music video we have decided to base it around the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, so we had a look on the internet to find the original story so we could base our Video pitch around it.

Pinkly Smooth - Mcfly video