Improvements to Second Cut

There were some problems and disappointments for our second cut of a music video. One of the first things we noticed about our production was when Harry was dropping objects out of the window. The camera kept jerking up which gave the sequence a very unprofessional look. We plan to rectify this by making the cuts quicker which makes the camera not jerk up every time. This also happened when we were shooting in the park, when I attempted to zoom into Harry's face. This can be fixed similarly to the way we plan to fix the dropping objects out of the window.

When Harry is boxing the shot is to dark and we cannot see his face clearly, which can be related to when I am riding the bike down the hill. We can correct this by reshooting both sequences with stronger lighting. The  park scene is also badly lit but that is harder to control, despite having opportunities to reshoot this the weather is too dark and we need the light to make the sequence look comical. Some of our shots were messy and untidy especially the jenga sequence, their is too much empty space in the background with unnecessary objects.

We have decided to add in shots that we believe will improve our music video. The green screen will be used to add funny and amusing images using a green screen. We plan to miniaturize me or Harry and have them lip sync on the other persons hand.

Second Cut

Editing

 

We began to experiment with the video effects in Premire. We looked at all of the effects and choose the ones that gave our video a wacky affect, we editied the transition further to make it suit the shot. Some of the transitions didn't work for the reasons that some didn't go with the music and some just didn't do anything. However we managed to find at least seven good effects to put in our video.+

 

Audience Feedback on Our First Cut

I decided to do a survey to give the people I asked a simple job in determining what we needed to improve on in our music video. I asked people to fill out 10 different questions and asked two girls age 17+ and two guys aged 16+. The questions I asked were;

1. Out of 10 how would you rate our music video?

The first question resulted in three 7/10 and one 8/10, I was happy with the scores because that means if our first cut is 7/10 we get push it up to 9/10 or maybe 10/10.

2. Which was your favourite part?

The two guys said the favourite part of the music video was when Harry dropped different items out of the window, while the two girls said that their favourite part was the quick beginning shot of the street. They said that the video was perfectly in time with the pace and it led in well with the next shot.

3. Which was your worst part?
The parts that all four said they didn't like was the shots when mine and Harry's faces are in the dark and they can't see us lip syncing. This was the part we fixed by re-filming this as part of our reshoots, we didn't have any of these problems in the reshoot.

4. Which was the funniest part?
Three of the four I asked said they found the scene when I rode down the Chauncy hill on a bike, and made crazy faces to the camera. The guy who said otherwise chose time when Harry dropped stuff out of the window, said that it was the funniest and favourite thing of the video.

5. Which part needs the most improvement?
The two guys and both girls said that the part that needs the most improvement is when Harry is lip syncing with the punch bag behind him. They said that it was too blurry and the shots were too diverse.

6. Is the camerawork good enough, if not can it be improved?
Everyone said that the camerawork is good and that the only problem was the stage shots at the end of the video. For the reason that it wasn't framed well and that it didn't look as good as the other shots, particularly the shots with Harry and I lip syncing.
 

7. Is the editing good enough, if not can it be improved?
The four people I asked all said the pace of the music video was fine and that the begining was a bit too fast and they couldn't really see whats going on.

8. Is the pace correct or is it to slow/fast?
I decided to do a survey to give the people I asked a simple job in determining what we needed to improve on in our music video. I asked people to fill out 10 different questions and asked two girls age 17+ and two guys aged 16+. The questions I asked were;

9. Does the video look amusing?
They all found the video amusing and said that the only average scene that didn't make them laugh was the shot's when I'm lip syncing in the hall.

10. Does our music video look professional?
The two boys said that the video does look professional but when people were saying 'bonkers' you could clearly see they were in school because of the lockers in the background. The two girls said the same as the guys but they also added that the slow motion, black and white shot of me going down the hill didn't fit in.