Poffestional Feedback on our Rough Cut

We were lucky enough to have a Skype call with the Music Video Director Terry Hall. Terry Hall has recently directed a music video for Muse - Supremacy and this music video has inspired us lots during editing and filming are music video, as we wanted less static shots and more moving shots which supremacy is the prefect example of. On our Skype call we showed him the rough cut of our music video and he was able to give us professional feedback and advice about our editing process. 


First of all he mentioned he liked the amount and variety of locations we have as he said it kept it interesting for the audience and kept them on there toes. He also especially liked a shot we have in our video of our singers reflection in the water cross cut with her on the bridge. 

We then when onto show him one of our stop motion animations which we planned to use in our music video, he was very help coming up with al sorts of ways in which we could incorporate this into are music video. The suggestions we really liked and are going to use are layering the stop motion animation onto our singer and inverting the colours to add more dimension. We found this Skype chat really helpful and we also had  few questions we liked to ask him, he is shortly going to send us the answers he came up with which will help greatly in further studies.

Stop Motion Animation

We wanted to add stop motion animation for at least a whole chorus but thought it would look weird in one big bulk so decided to split the chorus into two and add them in at different choruses during the video to split up and make the video flow better. I got the challenge of making a stop motion animation for the second half of the last chorus, with the lyric of 
'Swim with sharks just to feel the danger
or flipping the bird to a mean state ranger
No- the dumbest thing I could say, is 'I don't look at you that way'
Yeah the dumbest thing I could do, is say that I didn't love you'

Here was my story board for my stop motion animation and some of the pieces I used to create the real thing :  

My partner also created the first half of the chorus and made it into a YouTube video before adding it to our final portfolio and this is what it looks like:

Filming at Cliveden

Here is a video of our filming at Cliveden Water Garden, we filmed a number of different shots and settings. We are now able to being editing our final piece:

Cliveden Storyboard

 Again with the Cliveden shoot we wanted room for improvisations and ideas when we are on set and editing. So we storyboard are specific shots and area's.  We wanted to get a wide range of different setting and shot for the editing process so we have a wide range to work with. 

Beckonscot Storyboard

Here is our storyboard for Beckonscot:

 When storyboarding and editing we want room for improvisation so we didn't want to storyboard every section of the song. So we storyboarded our specific ideas and specific shots we wanted to film in Beckonscot. 

For example her we have storyboarded our singer by a specific area of the model village. As we wanted to have often visual links to what the lyrics are saying and are shots we have storyboard our singer walking along train tracks as the lyrics sing:

'Its like falling asleep on a railroad track Or baiting Chuck Norris just to make him mad 
Skinny dipping in the pouring rain
Or sending drunk texts to your boss' phone again'. 

Filming Storyboard

In order to start filming our music video we have to create storyboard so we know what we are shooting on site. With our music video we want a vast number of shot to chose from when editing so it fits with the beat of our song, so we want to film the entire song from different angles and areas. 

We have decided to also have foundations shots of our singer so we can add these into editing were ever we see fit. We decided on a close-up of the face and extreme close up on the singers lips as we liked these when researching other pop music video's. 

We also started to storyboard the opening part of our song which has no words. We decided to include an instrument in-keeping with the conventions of a pop music video: 

Film Production Risk Assessments

Here is our risk assessment for Beckonscot, the model village shoot.

Here is our risk assessment for Clivden: