Feedback From The Class

-Lyrics and visuals went well, because when the artist spoke about the past it showed images representing the past emphasising the lyrics.
-Camera work and editing was done well and was fitting for the theme and genre with all the close ups and the unusual framing of her face in the close ups.
-Glasses were good but would have been better if we could have seen the eyes as we could have then connected with the artist more. Also you could see the green screen and the camrea in the reflection of the glasses.
-Lip sync went out of time every now and then.
-Photos were good showing the past in how they were a memory fading.

Montage Stills

Using stills images, we plan to make clips of montage of the characters relationship which will be in the video at relevant points. This emphasises the point of the song and gets across the emotions in the video.

Research Into Transition Types

Dissolve - Fade In/Fade Out

Dissolve is the most frequently used transition type that people use in videos as it's commonly used especially for the change of scenes or opening and closing the video using Fade In/Fade Out. For our video we hope to use it for changes of scene and also at the beginning and end of the video.

Iris - Point

Iris is one of our possible options for our video which we may or may not use depending on how it will fit into the video. If we were to use the Iris transition, it would be during one of the green screen sections where we have the background as the city street because if we shot an almost birds eye view of our  lead against the green screen and added the iris point in editing.

Research Into Filters and Special Effects

Green screen is used for layering two images together it is done by making the top layer transparent showing the other image below to create one image.
The process of chroma key (green screen)is to film the person or object against the green or blue screen. The blue or green screen is then, in editing, made transparent and replaced with the footage that has been filmed before or after this footage.

We are going to use this process by filming our main character in our music video in front of the green screen. Then after doing so, we will go out after filming this to get the footage to replace the green screen which will be sped up during editing to give it the effect we want.

Plan Of What Needs to Be Done For The Final Cut.

After completing our rough cut for the music video, we have found that we need to do a lot more filming that we had for the lip syncing because the bits that we found could not be used are some of the main parts of the song. To solve this, instead of filming parts of the song, we will film the whole song lip syncing numerous times at the different angles we want so that we have plenty of footage to edit from.

A big problem we have also encountered with our video is the fact that the person who we have used for the filming has recently dyed her hair during the process of all the filming so we are going to have to re-film the footage we already have.

Another problem that we need to consider whilst filming again that we found out during the first bit of editing, is that the fact that on the shots where we have the lead leaning against the green screen wall and are filming from the side, the reflection of light from the green wall onto our lead shows a large amount of green that cannot be removed when editing, so when we refilm everything we will try the shot again without the light in the room being on. If not we may have to ditch the idea of doing side shots when using the green screen.

Furthermore, we also need to complete the editing after we have finished our filming. This is a very crucial part to our video as we are relying heavily on green screen so if its not completed and not completed properly it will give our video a lesser quality.

Video Concepts - Green Screen

We decided to use green screen effects for most of our video to create the feeling of isolation; making the character seem separate from the rest of the world and time passing at irregular rates. In this video for Loick Essien 'Me Without You', green screen has been used in a similar way to what we want to use in ours but as the video has a lot bigger budget the chroma key effect has come out a lot better than it will for ours. However, it shows how well the green screening works with the genre of song, coincidentally the same genre as the song we are using for our video (Lady Gaga 'Second Time Around')

Feedback for Rough Cut from Group T1-31

The green screening idea worked very well and the slow motion editing of people walking was very effective. the lip- synching in places was good, but it could be improved to make it more realistic for the final cut. On the whole, the idea has been thought about very carefully and when you have included some more footage and improved the lip-synching the video will look good.