Feedback to our complete

We have received some feedback about our music video from the class, who appeared quite pleased with the music video results.

Good effort with the animation - clever tenticle
well thought camerawork which merged well with the animation movement.
clever how drawings blended into real life footage.
clever narrative - good twist at end, realised how he wasn't real.
the atmosphere and tone matched with the weird song.
cool ideas - eg bat with bring it on. This repeats through out the song with the book etc.
good blandness of the character.
narrative holds it all together

Constructive Criticism: Some shots held too long. (This was due to unsuccessful animation not being put into the shot.)

Sketchy frames

We have done some more sketch themed still frames using Photoshop and put the coloured photos into black and white then used a artistic filter called coloured pencil. This is how we managed to create these effects and produce a sketchy look. We also during this week have created more animation in Istopmotion, and put them onto our timeline, to add more effectiveness to our video.






How we created the sketchy look.

• Capture still shot in final cut of picture you want to look like this
  

• Photoshop
• Open a photo
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• Play around with the settings for the right look.
  
  
  
  
  

Capturing the Footage

This weekend we all got together to capture the footage for our music video. However, the camera we were given caused some trouble for us and we struggled to capture all the footage as easily as we had hoped. The battery kept on running out far too quickly so we could only film on 10-15 minute intervals max, we then had to charged it for an hour before we could use it again. this meant that the time we had to film was largely reduced and seeing as we only had this one day to film, it caused us not to get all the footage captured on the day and less variety of shots. The battery was also not holding properly in the camera, causing the camera to constantly turn itself on and off and therefore capturing long shots or different shots of the entire song being sung was impossible without the camera failing on us.
To complicate things further, the camera was not equipped with a foot so using the tripod for steady footage was out of the equation and the zoom was also broken, not allowing us to zoom in very far without the lens immediately zooming back out. So we were unable to hold the lens at a certain distance or capture smooth footage.

Overall the footage we captured was ok, but we are really disappointed that we weren't able to work to the best of our ability and we are also worried that it will greatly effect the editing and our marks of the completed video. We will do our best to work with what we have though, but we know that not having all shots will cause our detailed shot list and music video plot to be affected.