Roughcut Feedback

Our feedback was infact much more positive than we had predicted. We did have a very consistent negative referral of our lip-syncing, which we had guessed would happen. Our positive feedback came mainly around our camerawork and mise-en-scene.

The most astonishing selection of feedback was from group 47. It completely contradicted what everyone else said. We feel that they were not watching properly.

Feedback from the groups:

Group 44

+ No lip syncing
+ Fits the genre well
+ A variety of shots
+ Good use of locations
+ Got into character

Group 43

+ Location works with music
+ Movement of camera in car makes it look exciting
+ Integration of clips makes the audience want to watch more
+ Lip syncing doesn't work in some places
+ Performance is interesting to watch

Group 48

+ Lip syncing out of time
+ Genre works well
+ Good camera movement
+ Good characters and location (clothes)

Group 47

+ Bad lip syncing
+ Good costumes and location
+ Try and learn the words
+ Lack of storyline - bit boring
+ Variety of camera angles needed

Group 46

+ Gaz is a lanky streak of piss
+ Shots are good , but don't know the words
+ Lip syncing needs some practice
+ Good car shots

ROUGH CUT!

We are going to need to make a whole host of changes for our final viewing.

*We are going to need to re-shoot the footage of our main vocalits from the gangsters and geeks. Unfortunetly for the rough cut our main vocalists had not learnt the song properly.

*We are going to need to change location A as the library we were currently using made it impossible for us to get the relevent footage and the time scale we had was very challeging to insure all the footage was completed to the nessesary standard needed to obtain a plausable grade

Animatic

This is our animatic.

It shows the begining 28 seconds introduction set and goes through around 20 seconds of the first verse. The first 14 seconds of the animatic shows the constant switch between the gangsters and the geeks in the library. This is to give an introduction to the characters and shows a build up of tension within the music beat. It shows the gangsters getting gradually closer to the library door, whilst the geeks are seemingly unknown to this and are just getting on with their reading etc. We will use parallel editing to create this effect in the video.

We are aiming to get the timing correct so that as the song becomes alive and energetic, to the same point as where the gangsters have reached the library doors. This then becomes similar to the first 14 seconds where parallel editing is used still to switch between the geeks and gangsters. This will continue to about 21/22 seconds in where we will have a shot of the gangsters and geeks who have come to a point of meeting. We will then use the 6 seconds before the vocals begin, to have a 2 seconds sot of each the gangsters, the geeks and then both groups together in a shot. In each of these shots the actors will be pulling a stereotypical pose of their group.

The vocals then begin and the camera will concentrate on the geek vocalist who will be rapping the song. This becomes different shots of weird things that are basically taking the mickey of the song, the unusual twist.

Music Video 2006 - Alfie

This is a good choice of song. The genre is blues/rap. The song is very bubbly and bouncy.

The settings are very effective in using them to tie in with the song. For example the use of the job centre and the bedroom as the vocalist says her brother is in his bedroom smoking weed. This gives an image portraying the theme they are presenting.

There is a good use of parallel editing in this music video. It is very good in moving between shots, it is not jumpy and is fluent. There is a use of split screen. This is used to good effect to show different shots at one time.

The camerawork is incredibly variated throughout the entire video. One shot is not held for more then 3 seconds. The video has shots from a variety of high and low angles, and long and short distances. These show the variations.

Special effects include the use of animation using the disney film bambi. There is also a good use of speeding up as 'Alfie' walks into the job centre.

The performances in this video are of a proffesional quality. We think that the vocalist standing in the window naked is a show of this and there braveness to perform any shot that is needed. This shows their courage and willingness to pull out all stops to create a good video.