So as promised, here is the video of what we have done so far for the music video. A few quick things as well. First off in regards to the video, this video is still in the editing production stage, which you will obviously be able to tell watching this video, given that there is no footage of the band and that we haven’t altered and fixed up the image just yet, it’s still lacking polish to it. Also what you will obviously notice is that there is no audio tack along with this cut, I was going to put it on, but I had a bit trouble trying to find the track. I do have the track somewhere either on my laptop or external hard drive at home, because what I do with my music is when I download songs or albums, I save them onto my external hard drive because basically my lap top is suffering from very low memory, so it has to go straight on there. Now obviously I have the track, because I’m a huge fan of the band, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere on my lap top or the external hard drive, so I’m going to try and look for it again over the holidays, or download it again, and then I’ll put up this same video but with the track on it. So recently me and Chloe have left the editing for a bit, as we can’t continue without the band footage and the end we are going to re-shoot, and have been focusing on the publication side of the project, mainly turning our attention to the magazine, in particular the magazine cover. At the moment we are doing a basic rough design on Microsoft Office Publication software, to get a feel for it will look like and to sample it and mess around with it, to see what fits best and what looks the best. After the rough design, we will be using Photoshop to put the cover together to create the best outcome. At the moment we are using real photos of the actual band taken off Google, but over the holidays, I’ll be taking the people who are going to be in my version of the band and get loads of different photos of the band which I will use to incorporate into many of the publication side of things, such as the magazine and the digi-pack for the CD. Not to mention both me and Chloe will be focusing all of our attention to all the different aspects of the publication side of the project and getting things organized to shoot the band footage, so when we return from the holidays, we can just jump straight into filming and get it all finished off, and hopefully finish the video completely. If you want to know more about what we are doing over the holidays check out my last entry which explains a little better of what will be occurring and keep your eyes peeled over the blog for posts during the holidays.
As you've mentioned, the editing needs to be tighetened up; you have a slight pause at the beginning of the first two shots which could be removed. You are also holding the shots slightly too long; to create the sense of pace, you need to be editing a lot more quickly (although this also needs to be in time with the music, so you need to consider how this will affect your edit). You need to get the soundtrack embedded as soon as possible since otherwise your video will not tie into your audio. The flow of the video - the cutting between the narrative and the band - is good, but as mentioned, the pace lags... of course, hard to tell without hearing the song. The shot at 37s needs to be tightened significantly since there is about a second of dead time before you come on screen; there is also a degree of camera "wobble", but not much you can do about that. The continuity from this shot to the next (at 41s) does not work - you need something to break it up (I would suggest cutting to the band?). You are using a good range of shots, and other continuity (action match, 180) seem to be okay, apart from at 2:09. I would drop in some shots from the POV of the pursuer slightly earlier, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteIt's not quite clear where the narrative itself is going - you need to indicate what it is he is running from. Reminds me a little of the video for Karma Police by Radiohead (http://youtu.be/IBH97ma9YiI) or Rabbit in the Headlights by Unkle (http://youtu.be/cud_k9f6tqk)