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Rain Filming

This is a short clip of us filming in the rain, we did not change the date of filming because our artists schedule shows that he is only free to film on this day so we had to film through the rain, which would also give us more shots to work with as you cannot see the rain on the camera. I think the weather goes really well with the song, because it's sad, dim, dull etc, which relates to the characters feelings. After this experience, we have learnt to check the weather before filming.

Screen Grab i-Movie

This a Screen Grab on i-Movie, the advantage using i-Movie are easy, fast to cut the footage, transition and title this will help us to save more time, which is less complicate then Final Cut Express. But the disadvantage where we could not do cloning, because i-Movie don't have advanced filter and transition. Over all i-Movie have all the basic stuff to do editing and by using this software we can still edit a excellent Music video, which draw audiences attention.

Technical Problems

A problem we had which affected the post produstion of our video was technical problems with our editing software. We chose not to use Final Cut Express to edit our video because we were already proficient in IMovie so everything will be edited quickly and properly without needing a lesson on how to use it and we didn't need any of the special effects that Final Cut can give us.

We did all of our work on macs open to other film and media students so there are a lot of different user areas with their own work on it. This affected us because the macs memory was limited but we had a lot of footage to edit and needed the space to save and edit it. We worked around this by editing what we needed and deleting what we might not need. Also by not recording over the footage just incase we delete something we need on the Macs.

Another problem with IMovie was the crashing, which was directly linked to the Macs memory problem except when this became a problem it seriously affected our work and was impossible to fix. We would be editing and IMovie our video and IMovie would unexpectedly crash and we would lose whatever we did in that session before the last save. It's easier to edit in chunks then save so when it crashed we would lose a lot of work. This could be avoided by saving frequently but either way we would still lose work unless it conveniently crashed straight after we saved our work. It's easy to avoid but impossible to fix, once our work was gone it was gone!

We did try Final Cut Express to change lighting but importing took long and wasted time, we were inexperienced with it so more time was wasted trying to learn how to use it properly and it created large files, which obviously wasn't helping as we already had memory issues. In the end we just stuck to what we know and used IMovie which despite the flaws can still help produce quality work.

Rough edit

Audiences feedback on our Music video

• More shots of violin
• unusual shot in crowd
• Costume on Male character doesn't fit with genre
• Need to links to digipak
• Need a better background for the violin scene
• Good range of shot, editing
• Need to have a complete ending to sum up the whole story
• Match on action is well shot to capture the characters movement
• Good use of shots that makes the music video interesting
• Sound bridge- it is well progress through the song
• Good use of cut between the beat and lip syncing
• Framing really good
• Like the start- Numbering days
• Good use of editing and Narrative
• Need a title
• What happens at the end, why does he stand alone.
• Good use of location
• should have some more close up of artist

Schedule Timing- Working with the artist

Adam Wilson Hunter, his the artist we working with in our Music video. During the production we just able to have him one day a week, the reason for that because his a full time teacher, he only have a day off on Thursday. Therefore we have really limited time to film with him, so we pressure with time, every time we meet him, we film lots of useful footage.

We really thankful that he really commit to the filming schedule, this is one of the reason make our Music Video successful and the most important element was his song. 'Do you call this love?' to make all the work combined together.