Filming Progression

When fiming our video we had some difficulties as our location which was my house, we had the cleaner come to the house and we had to hurry up with some of our clips in order to get out of her way this unfortunately happened coninidently on both the days we decided to film. With better organisation we could have re-arranged a day where the cleaner was not there. Aswell as this when we did our first filming session the lightint from outside was a lot darker than the second time we filmed this therefore mean't that in some of the clips the lighting may appear different to other clips.  Also our choice of character became really hard to be able to get Meg (our artist) again to be able to film without her being busy, at college or unable to get to the location. Therefore to overcome this I had to pick her up and bring her back to the location in order to be able to film. With all of these factors combined we had slightly fallen behind with our schedule and missed out some filming of clips meaning we had gaps in our draft which we still need to film. For our final one I think we will refilm certain clips of the video to get our ideal lighting and do the bits we have missed out.

Alfie Music Video Draft 2

Improvements

After making our draft video we have noticed that there are many ways that we can improve on. We have therefore made a list of what needs to be changed when re shooting bits of our video.

List of things we need to improve:

·         Lighting needs to be altered – The left hand side is a lot brighter

·         Mise-en-scene – we can make the house look a lot tidier

·         More interesting angles can be used on our artist.  A lot of it seems to be repetitive and standard shots are used

·         We need to be more careful when filming the puppet- there were shots where our arms were visible

Today we have decided to reshoot parts of our video as there are parts that are missing and some that didn’t turn out very well. We will make sure that each of the points listed above are achieved.

Alfie Animatic

Alfie Music Video Draft

Draft Digipak

Feedback

After handing in my draft digipak and advert I have received positive feedback. Overall my digipak and advert looks quite professional and the position of the text works well on each page. However I could improve the digipak and advert by using different images styling my artist in a different way. Maybe dressing her in something plainer such as a simple black top or jumper would go with the black and white contrast theme a lot better and will make her stand out more. Furthermore, my pictures will come across more expert if I edit them with the tools provided on photoshop; I could airbrush, smooth down her hair and remove the shine from her face. On the advert I need to consider adding a record company logo and a website. I could also add ratings from music magazines to help with attracting her audience.  

Feedback

After showing our pitch to the class we have received a lot of positive feedback. We haven’t over complicated anything and on paper our ideas seem to work well together. However one thing we have had to think about it is how we are going to construct a puppet into our music video as positioning the puppet and moving it in time with the song could be tricky. We have thought about having the puppet on strings but it also might ruin the video if the strings are visible. We have discussed that we could add something else instead of a puppet like a young child but without the puppet the narrative will not make sense.  We will therefore have to do our best to hide the strings and move the puppet in time with the song.