Adjustments between second draft and completed video

This is a comparison bewteen my second draft known here as "final" and my completed version. The 'final' version is on the left with the fully completed video on the right. This is just to show the small changes I made between the two. I did not make any more changes to the final video other than what is seen in the video on the right. The main thing that I did was adjust the performance based scenes so that the mimming was more in time to the music and therefore looked more realistic. I also made one of the scenes pan up rather than having a still shot to make the clip more intense and capture the audiences attention.

Medicine Second Draft

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Medicine out takes and issues I learnt when filming

This video shows some of the out takes that I could not include within  my video. This has taught me that filming is more difficult than it looks and that it take a lot of filming before the right shot is created. I experiemented a lot with shots and this made me have a lot of footage at the end.

Adjustments made during post production

Audience feedback for digipak and magazine adverts

This is my audience feedback for my digipak and magazine adverts. The draft that they were looking at are of the pictures in the post below this video. Overall, the comments I found were that they thought I could use a better font for the advert and digipak. They recommended something more striking yet still simple such as times new roman. So I will go back to my draft and edit this to see if this looks better. I will also do this with some of my images to see if I can improve them. Due to time constraints, I think it will be unlikely that I will be able to do another photo-shoot to get the images recommended. However I do like my chosen images and do not wish to really alter them too much as I think they suit the theme of the video and are very appealing. I hope that making a few smaller adjustments that were advised to me will make a positive difference to the visual appearance of my digipak and magazine ads.

Drafting for magazine advert and digipak

Filming Structure

Filming Structure

This is my music video structure which outlines what is going on during each shot with some notes of what I am trying to represent. This is helpful as I could show it to an audience to help them understand the narrative and to make any editing or shots easy to find and change if need be.

Audience Feedback from first draft

Medicine First Draft

Rough Cut: Medicine

Raw Footage: Behind the scenes planning

This is the behind the scenes footage of the middle of the video. This is preparing for the scene where my actress goes to meet her boyfriend and he begins to worry about her with the amount of alchol she drinks and her secretive ways. To make sure that the actors knew what to do, I gave them a run through of the sort of shot I wanted to achieve.

Raw footage of location:Behind the scenes

This is just a quick behind the scenes video of the room I used to shoot the first and final scenes of the video. I just wanted to show how I prepared a little for the video before filming by placing the props in a certain position and way, and that I had to prepare my equipment before filming. I tested the two different lenses I planned to use and did this to make sure that they were at the right settings for the light of the room.  To prep the room, I didn't really have to do much too it as I chose sarah's (the actress') room for the purpose of that it already looked like a stereotypical teenagers bedroom. I wanted her to leave it quite messy in some areas to give it an aesthetic feel of a typical teenagers bedroom, and I plcaed the items of clothing around the room to make it look like she had been to a party the night before. As you can see, Sarah cleaned to mirrors of her wardrobe a bit in case we needed them in one of the shots so that the audience would be able to see anything in the mirror clearly.

Timelapse

Filming/Editing Schedule

Filming Schedule

This is a brief filming and editing schedule. I wanted to get any idea of how much time I should use for filming and editing. Due to possible complications, I may not stick to this schedule exactly. However to try and manage my time I feel that creating a schedule would allow me to try and stick to a decent working time.

Equipment List

 

This is my equipment list. It tells me exactly what equipment I need so that I can use it as a check list to make sure I have everything I need before filming. This can also be given to the school so that they can prepare the equipment for me as they are going to provide me with the equipment I need for filming. 

Call Sheet

 

 

This is my call sheetto make sure that all of the people in my production know where they need to be. It also provides me with the main information I need to know about filming such as what equipment I am going to need and where my shoots will be taking place. It also tells me things such as what props are going to be needed and what time filming is going to begin. 

Actor Release Forms

 

 

These are my actor release forms. This is so that my actors give me permission to use them within my footage and that they meet some guidelines in terms of turning up to shootings and allowing me to share my footage of them with others and publically. 

 

 

 

Digipak Second Draft

 

This is the second draft of my digipak, like my magazine advert I have used my own images, however I still feel that the arrangement of some of the pictures could be better and that the design lacks something such as colour. I also think I want to change the layout of the back cover in terms of moving the song list to the bottom of the page to make it look more realistic compared to current digipaks. 

Magazine Adverts Second Draft

These are the secon drafts of my music album magazine adverts. I have not classed them as my final as I am not overally pleased with them. I have started to use my own images within my drafts that I took during a photoshoot, however I feel that the adverts lack something. I also think I need to play around with the fonts of the quotes that are used as they do not suit the advert. Looking at other magazine designs, they use around three colours where mine are only in black and white. So I think I should try and incorporate some colour into the design to capture the eye of the audience more, whilst still trying to keep the same message that the advert portrays in black and white.

Props and Costume Planning