Evaluation of Draft One against Draft Two

 

Our first attempt of filming was at Pozition Nightclub, this proved to be unsuccessful due to the lighting of the club, the footage we achieved was perfect for our video as it fitted with the genre codes and conventions of RnB and our original idea to film in a nightclub was be to add to the realism of the atmosphere of the video. The filming was too dark and unclear to include, however after revising the video and creating a second draft some of the footage from the first draft can be included. However by using the theatre in college we can now create clear, accurately lip-synced footage and include this in our video to make it of a higher quality and better standard, some of the footage where the lighting is slightly brighter can be used and we have included that in our second draft to keep the video interesting and to show examples of different locations and also to reference to the nightclub which is fitting with our genre and teenage target audience. The clearer brighter footage gives the video a much more professional look.

By playing the music while filming we would able to get an accurate idea as to how much of the song we had filming footage for and how long each clip lasted and what we were missing, however what we did not identify which we later realised when editing was that we needed to film the whole song through so any footage we were missing we were able to fill in the gaps when editing. To do this, we filmed the shots in the theatre that we needed and incorporated the ideas that we had then following this, we filmed our characters, Laura and Kabi dancing and singing solidly for the whole track we then worked of this as a base and could use however much of this clip that we needed. It also meant that we could use them dancing as a couple throughout the whole music video like a motif throughout. It also enabled us to make the shots and ideas we had put in place stand out more and editing meant that we could change and edit some of the dancing shots by adding flashing lights, fades etc.

We decided to keep the same characters as they are fitting with the genre we have chosen and they played the roles really well in the first edit, it was frustrating that the lighting was too dark as some of the shots were really great and we are disappointed we couldn’t use them but with them being so unclear it meant that it made our music video look so much more unprofessional. By completing our first draft of the video for the deadline it meant that we were able to look over the video and identify the improvements and clips that needed reshooting. This gave us time to do so for the second draft.

The first draft proved to be really helpful for improving the second draft and our knowledge of using the editing suite has greatly improved and being able to change clips from the original video has been a really positive change, I am happy with the improvements we have made.