Final Video

When creating my video i filmed a selection of various shots, some of which were not used. I have displayed them in my blog as still shots. i did this by using the programme move maker on the apple mac laptop. getting the shot from the video was done by pausing it at the relevant point, and saving it as a jpeg/still shot/image. this was then saved on the college computer where it was then transferred onto a memory stick an uploaded on to my blog.

The three images i have used for my unused footage are below.

1. This is of a shot we did of some logs in the woods. we didn't use this footage because it was far too light and the image did not fit in with the dark theme we were trying to portray. although we could have darkened it in film cut pro, we decided the suns reflection changed the look too much. e.g lighter patches. another reason for this was because it was going to be part of the introduction in the video, where we set the scene by using establishing shots. but this is a part of the woods we were not going to incorporate into our video so we felt the trees were irrelevant to our video.



2. This shot below is similar to another shot we used half way into our video. this shot is different because the camera angle is different, we shot a new one because not alot happened in the old one. e.g Matt walked across the top of the hill but it was an easy shot that we could have filmed using depth of field and made it more interesting. for the new version we placed the camera behind a tree and filmed through the leaves, this made it a more realistic point of view shot as there was a sense of hiding and running away. which was good for our theme.

3. When filming our video we planned to film the stream and capture a duck swimming along and then we were going to edit and slow it down as it flew away. when it came to filming the duck it was impossible to get it to fly away when we were actually filming, so when it eventually did fly away. we missed it. meaning the shot of the duck swimming along, despite alot of depth of field and strong use of composition it was pointless to our story in the video. meaning it was a shot we could not use. unless it was for a last resort and we had space that needed filling, which did not happen.

Below is the final video. (which is also on memory stick as the quality is bad)

Feedback

I asked people that would listen to this band for feedback about the video i have made.

feedback was positive although i feel this is because most of them were my friends and would not tell me the criticisms anyway.

first person i asked said: i like the way you have changed the speed of your video throughout, as this makes it look unique and fit with the songs lyrics. i.e war war war war

the second person i asked said:i like the use of the mask it is a vital part to your video as you wanted to achieve a scary/creepy theme.

the third person said: its good how you managed to stick to your storyboard, at some points you could have maybe introduced new footage to carry the excitement further.

this was all the feedback i managed to get i think it would have been a good idea to put it up on YouTube or facebook so that i could get a wider range of people commenting on the video. people who i did not know would have been good so that they were not scared to say what they really thought of the video. on facebook i could link the persons comments to a specific stereotype that they appear to be e.g indie, emo, goth, chav. etc. this would give me an idea of who my video appears to and if it has reached the people i want it to. i.e bloc party fans/indie fans. although i am disappointed i didn't think to put it on facebook, other people who did do this had problems with the quality. so this would have meant they could not see it anyway, or it would have taken along time to upload.