Preparing For The Evaluation

Before we started our evaluation process for our groups music video, we felt that we must discuss what we are going to say. We will do this otherwise we will have no direction in what we say and it will effect our clarity in gettin across ideas. Preparing for the evaulation is key so that we cover all aspects of the video and evaluate everything, fully showing an undertanding of our work carried out and answering th questions in full, whilst covering the development,progression and creation elements of our project.

We know we must look at the good points as well as the bad points analysising how we can improve and look forward to more effectve ideas in the process as this is what makes a good evaluation, the ability to analysis your video as a whole.
We will set ourselves guide lines in order so we do not go off track of the evaluation and begin to raise issues tha was not relevent to the question as that kind of discussion belongs on the blog, however we wish not to script what we say as it will negetivley effect that whole discussion and therefore not create a real sense of evaluating. As a group we will all take our turn to evaluate and give our own answers to the questions however through communication we wish to not hit upon the same idea continously and wish to display our collectve knowledge as a group.

The evaluation itself is very important to the coursework as it allows us to highlight on issues we feel we done well on as well as allowing u to recap on areas of weakness. All in al it gives a chance to focus on the 3 main factors which are: development,progression and creation elements of our project.

Rough cut of our video

BoB Magic Rough Cut 2 from Jules Thrasher on Vimeo.

This is the footage we have so far, and is what we displayed during the showcase. Through feedback and personal evaluation of the piece i feel that a great use of high quality shots and the editing used on the footage so far really has given our video so far a real professional edge.
However after discussion and personal evaluation of the piece i feel that towards the end of the footage we really let the professional look go where filming looked very much rushed and there areas in which could easily be pulled of in a much more effective manor.

I feel that by re filming parts in our final filmins session, it will allow us to create a successful ending to a video that starts of with a extremely effective footage and editing.

Video Showcase

In a recent lesson we put our video on show to the class in order to gain response and reactions to what we have far. As a group we introduced our video and explained tat it was unfinished but critism is encouraged as we are always looking to improve. We gave everyone a evaluation sheet to write their thoughts and critically analyse our video. We took everybody's views and gathered up what everyone had written and made adjustments accordingly. The screening also gve us a chance to watch the video as part of a audience and look at what we feel could be improved. As a group we feel we have done a very good job in the video and gave our all into it.

We gained a lot during the showcase lesson as we could see what all the other groups came up with in terms of experimenting with edits, as well as it being fun to watch, it helped us with our own video as we could compare our video to everybody elses and see the levelother groups are working at, however we were sure not to let this put us off our task and the follow the ideas we already had discussed.

Storyboard for music video

Lumby Producky Storyboard

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This is the storyboard for the music video that we will use as a guide to follow throughout filming our video, however we will not restrict ourseleves to just filming for the story board , we will allow ourselves to contionously add to these ideas. It also gives us an understanding of the characters and setting we will be looking for.

Our Choice

B.O.B - Magic ft. Rivers Cuomo is our chosen song for our final video.

The video is very appealing and somewhat inspirational but we will not let the video itself inspire us, we will use our own ideas and techniques and allow ourselves freedom to experiement with putting across ideas and connotations.

The video is very fast paced and we will create a video which is hopefully matched with the beat playing on the idea of the upbeat feel. We will lip sync some of the song to ofcourse give it its realistic feel, but not all the song, similarly to what they do in most music videos, too much or too little lip syncing will result in a bad music video as it either does not do the job of promoting the artist, or it shows to much of the artist therefore maybe not getting across ideaologies and connotations.

The editing will be very important to help the video look professional and out skills on Final Cut will assist us in doing this. It is software such as this that will make or break our music video as due to our low budget and lack in 'Superstars' we rely mainly upon the editing aspect to give the video a professinal feel.

Ideas we will moved forward with

Now we had a number of songs we felt would be good to use for our music video we began discussing ideas of what we could and what styles/ connotations we may like to consider when using these songs, these are the two songs were seriously considering to use and why:

B.o.b - Magic
This fast paced song would allow us to experiement with a number of cuts and camera shots, really playing with the editing to create a modern styled music video that plays upon fast movement and upbeat feel to the song.
Our particular idea for this song would be to show a day in the life of our character, going to an audition to perform infront of a judge and generally show the gradually rise to fame for this character.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Cant Stop
This song is very fast paced and would require many fast cuts and experiemental angles, the style of music will allow a lot of freedom in terms of what we want to do, and will allow us to play with the idea of tension buliding which is dispalyed within the song beat.We will look to once again follow the audition theme, however experiement with a lot more random connotations as this style of music allows such a thing due to its versitile lyrics.

Music video ideas

As a group we have been looking at and discussing a number of tracks we feel would be the right track for our music video. Youtube has become a great source for us, and it has allowed us to search through many music videos with different styles and genres, and we have used this to our advantage. After much discussion we have decided that it will be most beneficial with us to follow a pop genre, and a pop song as it allows us to use and experiment with a number of quick shots, range of angles and vary shot type. Originally we wanted to go for a either hip hop or indie genre however we found these music videos often restricted what you could do, as the style of music only really appeals to certain types of people/audiences.

Song Choice Possibilities:

- Naive, The Kooks
- Gives You Hell, All American Rejects
- Cant Stop, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Magic, B.O.B