Group: Rough Cut / Update - 25-11-13

GR: Feedback


Footage

• First shot should be put into slow-motion
• more urban footage, ends to quick
• Black & White footage really effective, more contrast and use of no colour
• Smiling- Sense of freedom = problem, The idea of the video is our character being brought to the woods to experience the difference to the urban lifestyle, however there is not a big enough sense of joy, Studio needs to replicate happiness and joy through movement.
• Addressing the gaps effectively

Print work

• Image with only face blurred works well, feedback was positive.
• Fully blurred Image was too much, didn't work
• Possible change for the framing and positing of Chris
• Pane Idea of mask with colour effects worked well, effective Image
• Stronger Images in video which can be used for video
• Triangle being used over an Image is effective, different colours.

JP: Today, we put together a rough cut of all the footage we have so far as well as some shots that we are planning on re-filming or were practice shots just to see if the style of shot worked in that place. Me and Liam spent the majority of the lesson putting the footage we have into the timeline.  From watching through all this footage in order, we realised that even though we did have a lot of footage, after editing to a fast cutting rate, we only around 60% of our timeline filled. So we still have a substantial amount of footage to film and put in the timeline. However, we have thought about these shots and now what we want to film and we know that we are filming in Wednesday's lesson.

After we completed our rough cut, we looked at other peoples work and got some feedback on our rough cut and concept. We had a lot of positive feedback about our shots particularly things such as the use colour. However we also now realise there are some things we need to change and/or rearrange so that it makes more sense in the video. Our biggest criticism was that in the woodland sequence, Chris did not appear happy which didn't fit so well with the music or the concept of the juxtaposing urban/dream-like rural settings. A suggestion to improve this would be to include more movement and we plan on making a strong link between the woodland and studio footage as we will be able to create the sense of movement and happiness in the studio shoot, giving him a sense of freedom and to make more sense of the idea.

I also began to make a call sheet for our shoot on Wednesday in the studio.

LB: In todays lesson we had to create a rough cut of what our video is currently shaping out to look like. We currently have about 60% of footage covering our timeline, with gaps which we have planned call sheets for. We are aware that we still need to get footage, and have a lot of editing to do as we have a fast cutting rate.

This task was a great way of seeing how far we have come, and what we have left to do. The feedback received was both Positive and Helpful. Today was the first chance our peers got to view our footage and print work. In our video we put our animatic underneath our footage to show what will be going in our blank parts. We also put in footage that we have planned to project over the top of Chris as we were unable to show as this is still to be filmed.

I spent the lesson by putting the footage on the timeline, because we knew we needed to show a basic idea of how it was turning out I had to put footage in there that had not been properly cut or inter-cutted with other shots. From this we had gathered the middle section of our video complete, with it to be fully cut and edited to how we want to. There is still a chance that the positioning of the clips may change.

As a response to the feedback we need to try and think of  way to regain and alter the mood of the video or reinforce the footage we already have to give a different reading message to the video. With the feedback we got, the biggest problem is that people were unable to tell straight away that once Chris had arrived at the woodland area, he was happier because of facial expressions. This problem could be solved with jump cuts to the studio using movement and joy to show the Idea we have, or we could reinforce the idea which we have created accidently with the use of Black & White.