final cut feedback

1. Genre and use of conventions
alternative and individual - gooooooood
circusy

2. target audience
stoners
strange people
not kids, it would scare them

3. Camera shots
really good shots such as the broken mirror
camera angles really worked, there was a good variety
sun rays excelent

4. editing
sometimes to fast
back and white really worked - abstract otherwise could look tacky
fantastic

5. mise en scene
masks worked really well, as did forest
Mc Donalds = bad
the scene of the mask being pulled over another mask was effective.

6. lip sinking
was not enuf .

plan

Monday 6th October or Thursday 9th October
Plan 1
Paul juggling
Field scene
Bike scene

Plan 2
Classroom scene

Friday 10th
Drive through
Speedometer
Editing

Monday 13th October

Thursday 16th October
Alex not here

Friday 17th


Sunday the ? of ?

Day

Clown church
Pratting around in cambridge
Clown fight

Evening
Sofa scene

blog feedback

The feedback generally indicated that we had everything we needed, however that it didn't go into the depth that was required.

Feedback was particularly complimentary in regards to the animatic and test footage, band research other videos and an apparently INCREDIBLE shot list.

Generally, the feedback to Mc Donald's is not particularly positive, but i personally blame Morgan Spurlock for his remarkable documentary supersize me. also they want it slower....we will think about it.

Cool video

Not particually to do with the video, but shows a relaxed side that could be used

more about the anamatic clip

As you can see our animatic clip is not very long, this is because we ran out of time to put all the images to the music. it would have gone on to show a varied selection of shots showing what would continue in the video.

The narrative of the video tells the story of no name. Someone who has become disillusioned with life, and despite his efforts to do something productive with his life always finds himself getting distracted by just having fun and clowning around.

The attempt is to illustrate the journey in his mind of whether education in itself is more of a joke than the jokers he hangs around with and the problems of living in a world with so many opportunities that you can end up not taking advantage of any of them.

As such then the video will entwine clowns just having fun around Cambridge alongside shots of no name in lessons etc until in the end they intertwine before finishing with the first scene again but the car being either side of him and crashing with him in the centre.

location plan

possible locations:
McDonald's drive threw


a church


the road by long road (luard + sedly taylor road)


classroom


a field - the one up the road



the coffee place that is quite simular to the one in friends that is in Bury


a car


the streeeeets

we think this is it :)

test footage

here we have tried a varied number of shots all crucial to our final music video, also we played about on final cut with transactions and effects to make it more interesting. it is not really in a shot order like the final piece will be but have some relevance. we also experimented with the length of the shot. having quick rapid shots and some longer drawn out shots to add contrast to the sequence. we did this by speeding up the clips on the 'speed' icon or making then more slow motion, by using the same icon.
for one effect we wanted to try and fix the camera onto the front of the bike, but due to technical reasons this didn't work and the camera could have been damaged, we will figure out another way in the mean time.
Also we wanted to zoom in closer on the end of the role up but the zoom either went too blurry or didnt go far enough, we will sort something out for this as well