Initial Ideas For Question 1

Eunice's Reflection On Editing 30/11/2015

What I Did Today ? By Eunice

Target Audience's Feedback From Rough Cut By Eunice

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Rough Cut Reflection

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Things We need To Improve By Next Week

1. More use of Jump Cuts in  the argument scene.
2. Introduce the sky Garden's scene close to the end of the video.
3. Fix the the colour of the two different scenes of sarene in the white background : The medium long shot is white while the medium close up is a bit yellow, as shown below:
   
   
   
   
4. Second Chorus : more variety of shots of Sarene to be introduced and put some shots of zhara and Kazeem Arguing.

Feedback From Class and Teacher

Good things about the music video

1. Very good controlled use of camera
2. Mise-en-scene , slow motion and shot types convey the story very well : the viewers can clearly see that something went wrong in the romantic relationship. 
3. Editing to beat was clear and effective to convey meaning.

Things To Improve By Next Week:

•  Fix the lip sync of Sarene in the second chorus.
• Cut the the last part of the first scene in the music video because the camera movement is a bit jerky.
•  Make the argument scene more jumpy to show that atmosphere changed. To contrast it to the happy scene
• Finish the music video !

reflection on rough cut

Rough Cut Of Music Video

Eunice's Own Reflection On Editing

The editing so far is going good actually. We started off editing the way we edit films - which is wrong. Then it was quite quickly to fix it - base track editing. As we edited the music video we've noticed that the shots of Sarene (singer) in the white screen are quite limited, there not much variety of shots. So, on friday (20/11/15), the day i missed the media lesson because i was unwell, my group decided they would re-shot the scenes in the white screen, to get more shots from different angles. On Wednesday, me (Eunice) and Sarene filmed again the scenes, while Dazhane and Zahra got on with the editing.

In my opinion we didn't paid much attention and rather focused more on the other scenes which is why we notice this problem so late. Well the filming on Wednesday went 6/10, my reasons fro these are :

1. Sarene had a whole different hairstyle  : box braids while in the previous scenes filmed she had mid-parting straight hair. These two hairstyles differ quite a lot, therefore we had to choose to either use the shots that we already filmed or film everything again. 

               2. Also the outfit was not the same even though it was similar - they were both black. (she lost the dress)
               3. The shots simply didn't look good, there was something about the shots that did not please us : maybe the lighting or even the quality of the camera, because we were meant to use Dazhane's camera which is of more quality

Well, after filming most of the shots again, we've decided that we are not using them. It talked with our teacher about the issue, and she told us there us any problem because we have more than enough footage from the other 3 scenes (flashback, argument, sky garden), to complete the whole video. I guess this complication trembled the editing stage some days ago, but i'm confident the editing stage will get better and the outcome will be the reflection of both my individual effort and the group's effort.

Why We Are Not Using The Happy Scene ? By Eunice

Reflection on editing

In our making of the music video, we had troubles with the first opening of the video as the ending of the establishing shot viewing Zahra and the guy seemed to be shaking and not smooth.
We tried various things: tried to put it into slow motion (75%), tried to cut the clip in sections, tried warp stabilizer but the results didn't really work. So we decided to slow it down and cut a little bit where the camera was shaking at the end, it looked much better.

We also had the time to play around with the colour contrasts and lighting to make the establishing shot of the trees to be more green and welcoming.

What we are doing today 20/11

Today we are continuing with editing. We are looking at the effect different transitions have on the video including fade ins and outs. We are also experimenting with colours and changing the colours in our video to help set the tone of the video and corroborate with our lighting sequence.

Here we were experimenting with slow motto combined with the use of warp stabiliser

Here we were laying out base tracks for the chorus.





Upon reviewing footage and receiving feedback we have decided to reshoot Sarene's scene to add a variety of shots to our chorus. We will do this on Wednesday 25th November.

What we did today? 13/11/2015

In the beginning Eunice and Zahra were finishing labelling the different shots of the sky garden, flashback scene and the argument scene.
After Eunice finished the filming blogposts.
While the Dazhane, Sarene and Zahra edited the music video.

Day 5 Filming by Eunice

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what we did today 6/11/15

Today we were sorting out, deleting and labelling videos to make it easier in the editing process. We were also updating the production schedule and we plan to go to the Sky Gardens next Wednesday

Revisions to Pitch by Eunice

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Day 4 Filming by Eunice