Titles

These are the titles we used in our video. We originally going to have just static titles like the artist name, but Alisha had the idea to have the sliding titles over the establishing shots and we agreed that it fit the feel of the video better than static titles.

Editing 4

We realised we needed more establishing shots rather than just a single shot of the corridor, therefore we added these shots to the beat at the start of the video.

We also changed the shot of the ducks to a closer shot, as we thought it looked better.

Evaluations

These are our evaluation questions:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Editing 3

We edited the transitions between the phone call so Alisha takes 0.9 seconds to slide in, as any slower and you do not see her talking, and edited it so she slid in right as I was sliding out left. We then edited the compass part, adding a close up of the compass, which we cropped from the larger picture of the map. We then matched the walking down the path and entering the clearing so it it matched. We cut the pan on the wide shot of the shovel, as it was shaky. We tried using a freeze-frame of the shot, however we decided that the slightly shaky shot fit with the rest of our filming style.

Editing 2

After audience feedback we were told that the bench and map sections were still too long, therefore we cut them again, as well as a few shots that were too long. We also sped up the feet shot on the bridge, originally to 2005, which ended up being too fast so we reduced it to 150%. The feedback also said that me and Alisha meeting outside the coloured houses looked unnatural as we were too close together. We therefore edited one of the previously discarded 'zoom in' shots and used some of the candid footage of me and Alisha to make it look more natural. We also made sure that when we edited the bench and map shots the bridge of the song comes when they see the man.

Rachel's feedback

Alternate endings

We filmed two alternate endings, with the expressions in the last shot different in each:





We then showed the class:





They decided that they liked the first one best. there other comments were:

1. That on the high bridge shot that the actors got lost in the crowd.
We decided to keep those shot as the provide good section markers for the lidl shots and show that the man is following them.

2. That the feet are going the wrong way up and down the hill
we simply flipped the shots to fix this

3. That we lingered to long when the man was showing the spade
We tried cutting this shot or speeding it up so it was shorter, however we eventually decided that we liked this shot, and as other audience feedback indicated that other people liked it , we decided to keep it.

4. That one shot was out of focus
After much deliberation we decided to keep this shot in. we liked the candid nature of this shot, and as it was candid it would be near impossible to replicate. We decided that the merit of the shot overweighed the fact that it was out of focus

Boy Being the Artist

We decided to have Morgan's brother (who is playing the man) be our artist, as this follows Andrew Goodwin's theory of 'Star image', by having the artist in the music video. There is also a convention in Indie videos to have the artist have a small role in the music video, which is the role the man plays. One example of this is ‘The Lumineers’ video ‘Sleep on the floor’  which features the artist for only a small part of the video

Refilming

We realised we need to refilm the shots in the school as they are really blurry, which none of our other shots are. We hope that when we refill them they will have more clarity.

Editing 1

We uploaded all the footage that we have, (which is all the footage up to the drawing of the compass)

which totalled at 1 hour 21 minutes. We then edited the very long continuous shots (the lidl the map shots and the bench shots) and isolated the parts of them which would be effective in the video. We then went through these again to make sure we didn't have any content errors and edited/ deleted some where one of us looked at the camera, or occasionally a finger was over the lens.