The Current Situation

At the moment we are just steadily working through our evaluations. Before we put each individual evaluation up we are uploading some sections, bit-by-bit. 

Whilst we are doing this, we are rendering and exporting the video to put onto a DVD. We are having some trouble as the final versions seem to be quite blurry, so we are just troubleshooting at the moment.

Video Feedback

Recently we completed the music video, and we are extremely happy with it. We have shown it to a couple of groups of people, and they were all very positive towards it. One of our Media Studies teachers showed our video to a group of Media specialists. They gave some mixed feedback, but all in all they were surprised with the quality of the camerawork.

One thing they did mention was that the video was slightly unclear. For us in the group we know what is going on in the video as we came up with the idea, but for other viewers, it could be slightly random. Also, in the scene where Richard is running to the car we had to do a slight cut to speed up the shot, and unfortunately there is a slight glitch in the trees. When we showed the video to younger audiences they didn't notice it, but apparently the Media group noticed it during the 3rd or 4th playing. They mentioned that it isn't as bad as we think and it isn't too noticeable. The only reason that some of them noticed it was because that their jobs are to find and rectify slight glitches in videos and video games, so they are very professional.

We have also completed the Digipack, we've burnt a video into Quicktime which is almost like a slideshow, showing the front cover, the back cover, 3 CD inlays and the promotional poster. We are having some troubles with the quality of the video after we exported it, so we are trying out all the different possibilities. One of the main troubles that we had on the dvd was that when we went to play the video, it came up the size of a stamp on the screen, and even though we filmed it on a HD camera, it came up very blurry. We are currently sorting these problems out and we should be finished quite soon.

Once we've completed this, we can show it to different sections of our target audience. We also feel that it would be a good idea to show it to the original band "Yellow Garage" to get their feedback, as in a sense, the video is for them.

The Bag

Unfortunately due to none of us actually owning a briefcase that we wanted to put in a swimming pool, we had to use a different, and less smart, recyclable holdel bag.

Even though we had to make this change, the new bag does actually add to the comedic aspects of the film as the audience may be expecting a smart briefcase full of money, when actually it's a 'Tesco Bag for Life".

Obviously nobody knows what is actually in the bag, and we intend for nobody to find out.

Editing

Today I managed to upload all of the clips that we filmed onto Final Cut Express. We had some difficulties doing this at first as we had filmed onto a HD camera and we hadn't had any experience doing so and then uploading before.

We still have one more shot to film, which we can do during the coming week. Luckily the shot we still need to film is the final shot, so it doesn't affect the editing of the rest of the video, which we can start as soon as possible.

So far I am extremely happy with the progress that we've made as a team, as I feel that we have been very pro-active and extremely organised. What we need to make sure we do is film the last shot perfectly so it brings a dramatic, yet fun ending to our video. Once we have done all of this we mustn't let our progress slip away, so we need to use all of the time we can get when it comes to the final editing stages and evaluation.

Filming

As mentioned by Charlie, due to medical issues we couldn't use the swimming pool that we were planning on shooting the final scene in. Other than that all the filming is done therefore we can film the final shot at a later date and edit what we have got so far.

What we must remember to do is wear exactly the same clothes when we go to film the swimming pool shot, as it won't seem very continual when we suddenly change outfits within seconds.