Final Cut Screen Grab

Teacher Feedback

Basically our feedback was that the video was quite good, but if we had 'dressed' it up more, for example wearing suits and such, and to sort out the mise-en-scene in general to fit with the genre conventions.

Music Video Class Feedback

Performance/lip-syncing- overall not a great performance, lack emotion towards the song.
Relationships between music and visuals- Most people said it worked very well, lyrics relevant to storyline.
Camera Work- Lack the variety of piano shots, but other narrative shots was good, but just mainly too repetitive.
Editing- Shots could be cut quicker, needed bit more transitions/fades.
Special Effects- No actually special effect used but good use of the lighting.
Mise-en-Scene/Costumes/Locations/Props- Very good use of the empty hall also the car which is used appropriate, But needed to use more costumes.

Plans for next lesson

Our plans for next lesson are basically to go out and film the narrative of the musci video again, but this time to really stylize it up, so basically coming in really smart clothes to make the video look as professional as possible.

Footage

In yesterdays lesson we went out with a camera and filmed our performance footage. We set up the hall in quite a dark setting, with lights shining on the piano, to highlight that as the main focus point of the video. We have now uploaded it, and will lip-sync it, and discard the footage we don't want to use.

Rough Cut

Our rough cut is a bit behind but oh well, enjoy :P.

Shots

Yesterday we went out and got some of the non-performance footage for our video, we got quite a lot of footage so we will have plenty and will be able to cut what we need.

Location Shots

These are some still shots of the hall which we hope will be our location for the piano shots, which will be a main focus in the video. Obviously the chairs won't be there in the video.

Other Videos

We think this video by Take That shows some similarities to the original video and we liked the tone of the video.

Augustana - Boston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7UneUCHGI&feature=related

Official music video for the song. From watching the video we have taken into account the location and props used....It centers around one main location of the main singer playing piano on the beach.