6/11/12 Rebecca's brother drawing "FUCK" on his arm.
After splitting the clip, Hannah found that the iMovie started freezing the ends of new imported clips. As a group, we decided not to do anything about this because when we first started and had the same problem, our teacher advised us that the footage might stop freezing when we import it to a disc.
Hannah was also able to add a footage of Robynne and James walking in the park, in-between a shot of Ian walking away from Robynne to make the visual faster and choppier so that it matches that sound. Myself and Rebecca thought Hannah's idea works well as the audience will sympathise with Ian's character, and so continuing the narrative.
James and Robynnne walking away together
7/11/12
During this lesson, we ask some students in class to watch and give us feedback of our video so far. We asked four questions and they include;- How do you think our video reflects the metal-core genre?
- What do you like/dislike about the video?
- How do you think the editing works with the visuals?
- How can we improve the video?
Feedback from qestionnaire
Not everyone in our class listens to the metal-core genre, so we had a range of views from our classmates. Someone said "Imagery/motifs reflect genre and target audience;fire writing on arm, live gig" for question one. Another person said "I like pace of the editing and with the music" for question 2, "I don't actually know what the song is saying" for question 3 and and for question 4, someone said "develop storyline in the background do it makes sense".
After knowing that our storyline might be confusing for some of our audience, we decided to move and add some footage. We thought that our audience might be getting confused by the difference between the two male characters , James and Ian. They might not know who is breaking up with Robynne and who went together with her. So we decided to add a footage of Robynne and James walking towards the camera in-between Ian walking away so that the audience can see that Robynne is no longer with Ian; and has moved on. This works well because the idea of Ian walking away emphasis the lyrics of a couple breaking up and one moving on.
James and Robynne hand in hand
8/11/12
During this lesson, we wanted to make our video easier to look at and understood by our audience. Hannah took out the footage of Robynne and James walking and replaced it with Ian and Robynne walking to keep the narrative clear. She also change the footage so that we could use it later in the video. After watching the video on the full screen, Hannah also spotted an editing error. When Ian first walk away from the bench, he is just about to turn the corner. We cut that shot to live shot, and to another narrative shot which means that a few minutes must have gone. However, when we went back to that shot, he is still in the same position, so there was no continuity. Hannah changed this shot and put it forward so that continuity is achieved.Hannah thought by Ian walking away from their breakup, the audience only sympathsed with Ian's character, so she decided to add a shot of Robynne smoking on the bench and looking sad. She changed the saturation from the average of 51% to slightly darker 49% so that the mood of the video is quit depressing and the audience can see that Robynne is also affected by their breakup.
Robynne sad about their break-up Hannah changed the saturation for that shot to make it deem.
13/11/12
This a zoom in image of the blurry shot we used.
Clear shot
During this lesson, I decided to do some editing with Hannah along with some feedback at each stage from Rebecca. I thought it will be a good idea to change the steady, clear shot of Robynne and James sat on the bench in the park to a blurry, hand-held shot of both of them on the same bench. The blurry shot moves away from them, so the audience are kept in suspense as they wait to see who she is with (James or Ian?). We didn't just put in the blurry shot in the video because it might look good. We thought it could be a metaphor for memory and relationship. We then cut back to the shot of the arm progressing, and then to a live footage of Ian playing the drums, and then back to the zoom out shot revealing who is sat on the bench.
We then cut to the shot where Ian is walking away at the top of the park by the lane. The idea behind putting a shot of James and Robynne in the park together before adding a shot of Ian walking away is to show that he knows about Robynne's relationship with James and he has come to accept it and is moving on. For the shot of Ian walking away alone, we changed the saturation to 55% to emphasis his sadness. Saturation of 55% to dull the mood
We thought it will be better to make the video choppier as it's an important music convention in this genre. We cut 0.9 seconds from the shot of James and Robynne talking on the bench and 0.5 seconds from the shot of Ian walking away. shorter cuts to make it choppier
Hannah and Rebecca tried to trim out the man talking
Cutting off the shots allowed time to add in a fire shot before cutting back to the shot of Ian walking away. By the end of this lesson, we had reached the part of the music where an unknown male's voice is talking over the music and we think was an editing error, and so Hannah and Rebecca decided to try and cut it out, but without releasing, they ended up removing the lyrics out of synchrony with the visuals. During the next lesson, Hannah and I decided to start editing the music again to make it synchronise with the live footage at the start of the video, and Hannah later came back during her free lesson and finished the editing.
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