Screen shots from the final video

This is a screen shot of the alteration we have made to the original video. The band shots break up the narrative and so makes the video more exciting and interesting instead of it being an all narrative based video.

This is a shot of our main singer lip syncing. This made the video more personal to the audience as they could see who was actually singing the song. This was also another alteration we made after the feedback which I feel was invaluable to our video.

This shows our timeline on Final Cut Pro where we edited all of our video. You can see the overlaying of the shots to create effect and where we have added transitions.

Lastly, this screen shot shows an overlaying edit where the shots stagger in and out of a split screen frame. This makes the video more exciting and shows an example of how competent we became after spending much time on the software.

Re-filming

From our feedback, it was obvious that we had to do some more filming to make our video much better. Inclusion of band shots was advice given to us, and so we asked two of our friends to help with this.
We borrowed a microphone stand

and Ronan bought along his guitar to mirror the sounds in the song itself.
Anna had to learn the words and so last night we sent her the song and the lyrics and she learnt them perfectly and so lip syncing was not a problem. We ran the song through many times, using different camera shots and angles to reach the high standard of improvement that we needed.

Update on the video

We had been working very hard to try to get our video to the best of our ability. We had a first deadline at the beginning of March, where we received feedback of how to make our videos better.

This is some of the feedback which we were given and we have also incorporated our own ideas to make the video even better. This included band shots and different ways of portraying the genre to make it more exciting for the target audience of the 16-25 age category. We also have to constantly refer back to the level 4 criteria to produce the best quality video we can.

Level 4 Specification 48–60 marks


There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:


- holding a shot steady, where appropriate;
- framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;
- using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;
- shooting material appropriate to the task set;
- selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;
- editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;
- using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;
- using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
- using titles appropriately.

Today's deadline

I have many things to blog, but most importantly today we finished our digipak and our magazine advert. Unfortunately I will have to upload it on Monday as it was emailed onto the school system which I cannot access at home, and blogger wouldn't work at school. However, the digipak shows a photo which we took in Cambridge which was the main place where we filmed on the front, and on the bottom it says 'Back to the Start' in bold and blue and 'Polly Paulusma' underneath in a soft gold. I will explain why we chose these images and colours when I upload the visual finished product. Inside is a landscape of sky and trees in soft dark purples, and on the left hand leaf there is a quote from the song we made the video for which is ''cross plains and over mountains' and the right side leaf is where the CD will be. On the back is a medium long shot of Ellie and Tom together, and over the top is a list of songs and at the bottom there is a copyright symbol, the music label 'Island Records' symbol and a barcode. I will upload this on Monday and expand on the reasons of which we chose the  images along with other things that I have been meaning to blog for a while.