Production- Blog task 38, 1st reflection of editing process

My overview on editing today:

In todays lesson we did choose not to film as Marissa advised but instead choose to look over the footage we had to see the areas we needed to focus on. We found that the base master tracks we had need to be completed in full as we did have one complete one of artist sing. In addition, we stabilised our work so it could look more professional as the footage was shaky.Also I realised how much editing we actually had to do and blogging we need to catch up.

18. Song Choice Digipak

 

Adele - 21 (song choice: Set Fire To The Rain)

At the front is a big image of the artist, below it her name and the name of the Album. The simplicity of the front reflects herself aswell as the genre as her songs are calm yet powerful. Adele's face is the first thing the audience see's, her posture seems very laid back and sad which reflects what is possibly the theme in her songs.

At the back we see the artists face once again, including the songs in the album and a barcode which is used during sales of the album.

Opinion on feedback of First Draft of rough cut

Here is my reflection and views on the rough cut feedback given today!

Rough cut of our music video

Here is a rough cut of our music video! There is still very much to do in terms of editing , adding more base tracks and filming but here is a preview of our hard work.

Filming 27/10/2015

Reflection from perspective

Alexandra Palace

Location -  Alexandra Palace has been a very picturesque location with a nice skyline view. It has allowed us to get some very visually appealing shots of green which contrasts the colour black which our artist was wearing. It made the artist stand our even more even though she wore the darkest colour possible.
Costume - The costume was a very good choice including the hat which gave it that sad touch. The area itself was green and vibrant but our artist wore contrasting items to denote the sadness of her song in a world where she once lived in happiness. 

Overall, the base tracks we took had some really nice angles, especially the silhouette type shot taken against the skyline view, was my favourite. However, we made one error of not continuing the recording of our base track right till the end which without a doubt limited us from having shots of our artist singing in Alexandra palace towards the end of the song. From this we have learnt that in furute base track recordings, we must carry on recording one whole song before cutting to record a different shot type. We plan to re film some shots in Alexandra Palace if the time allows us.

15. Short-list

Our group were very adamant that we did not want to do a pop song, which we automatically ruled out at first.

Then we began debating on which artist to choose and whether they would be male or female, depending on who in our group was willing to be the artist.

It was finalized among us that the artist would be Adele and we will be working on her song Skyfall.

However, when enlightening Marissa (our teacher) about our song choice, she highly pressured us into choosing a different song as Skyfall is a high profile track associated with James Bond. Therefore it would influence our ideas about what kind of music video to have, and overall it would have been a massive challenge. We then decided it would be out of Adele's Rolling In The Deep or Set Fire To The Rain. We then finalized it one more time that Set Fire To The Rain would be a perfect choice as it did not have a music video for it, therefore all idea's would solely be ours. 

(Summary) - Short-list:

Adele:

- SkyFall

- Rolling In The Deep

- Set Fire To The Rain