Final music video

This is our final finished music video. I am very pleased with the outcome. It follows all of the code and conventions of the genre of this music video.

Final poster

Final digi pack

Evaluation

Crimson Presentation

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In this version of our video we have put in the footage of the lead singer getting paint blown in his face. I think that it works really well, I am pleased with it.

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We have watched our video over and we have decided that we want to speed some of the footage too keep it up with the beat when it gets fast. We will add in some cuts that will change along with the beat in time. Also we have thought of a cool idea that we want to try out, we only have a few clips of Shaun, our lead singer, and we also want to connect him with the powder fight to help the story line make sense. Our idea is to either have a split screen or to cut a clip of me blowing out powder paint from my mouth in to his face. We will be filming this on Friday.

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We filmed an idea we had of 4 people on a split screen saying a line and then looking in the direction of the next person who will then say their line. We put powder paint on our faces to give clues about the powder fight coming up. We have also found someone to be our singer, he is a media teacher called Sean. He sings anyway and also looks the part so he is a great person to have as our lead singer for Crimson. He knows the song well so there shouldn't be a problem with learning the lyrics. I also have a mini speaker to play the song on so this time the lyrics will definatly match up with his mouth. We are going to film him today.

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Today we edited more of the video and added more to the powder paint fight by
reversing some shots so that there were more effects in there.

We still have quite a few gaps to fill but we plan to film all next week. For the first three gaps we plan to have our lead singer miming to the lyrics and then the last gap we want to split the screen into four, each person will sing a line and then look in the direction of the next person that will appear on the screen. We have edited the beginning of our video and we are really pleased with it as it really starts the concept off well. I think the footage we filmed was good, we included lots of angles to make it seem more interesting and I think it shows it leading up to the powder paint fight. Also,we only filmed my legs so it would add a bit of mystery.

Development

We have gone over the feedback from other groups viewing our music video and also talked about it with our teacher. We have decided to get rid of the footage of the band and find a new 'singer', also got rid of some party footage as it didn't make sense. We want to give our music video a story line as we planned our story boards. So there will be clues and a build up to the powder fight as the video goes on. We now need to find someone who would be a lead singer
from the band. This person will be shown throughout the video to show they are important.

This image shows the gaps in the timeline where we have to film some more footage.

Feedback

The class had a screening of music videos which gave everyone a chance to say what was good and what didn't work. Our feedback sheets were positive, everyone circled "It definitely has potential".

The other groups said the elements that work are:

• Paint fight
• The paint fight was really effective
• The powder fight
• Reversing the shot of blowing powder paint
• Powder fight worked very well
• Love the slow motion shots and reverse shot of the powder
  fight
• Powder paint fight
• The reverse shot
• Beginning and ending with Arron.

The other groups said the things that need developing are:

• Lip syncing
• Some shots are too long - especially performance
• Tie it together with more consistency
• Lip syncing at the start
• Lip syncing
• Lips out of sync
• Gap needs to be filled
• Beginning needs to be tighter.

From this feedback we now have to improve on the lead singer performance, we could either get Jake to do it again or someone completely different who would be more interested in performing for us because Jake didn't exactly put a lot of effort in to it.

Also we have been told to cut the song down a bit because it is too long.

We haven't got a lot of filming left to do, so far I am happy with the video apart from a couple lip syncing parts with the band. I have nearly completed my poster and digi pack, I just need to put some logos on then they will be finished.

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Today we filmed the powder paint fight, looking back at some of the footage it look successful. We still have some powder paint left over so I would like to do it again just to get any footage we might want to do again. We used two cameras to get different angles and also filmed people saying some lines. This was great fun.

This is just an example from my camera.

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We are going to film our main scene on Tuesday 17th January after school. The scene is going to be the powder fight. We will do some test runs of where people are going to be positioned and what they are going to do and then do it with the powder. We will film lots of angles and differnt shots, close ups, long shots. Hopefully it will be successful.

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Today we filmed a scene for our music video Where a business woman is sitting at her desk working saying the line "well i can't see anyone else smiling in here". she says it sarcastically. Then we edited in to our music video.

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Today we filmed some more footage, we got three people so say a line each.
"Rent a flat above a shop"
"cut your hair and get a job"
"Smoke some fags"