Laurie The Happy Crane

MUSIC PRODUCTION CRITICAL EVALUATION: PART 1

>>> Due on Moodle by 9am Monday 20th October

MUSIC PRODUCTION CRITICAL EVALUATION
Part 1 should be about 1500 words in length and should consider the planning, shooting and editing to rough cut stage. You should make use of your blog as a reference point throughout! Where you refer to real examples for comparison, give web references and as much detail as possible e.g. artist/song and video director.

Introduction
Explain what task you did for the AS production and how this one differs from it.
(e.g. thriller/kids Tv)

Part One
Explain briefly how the work came about and what the tasks were.
(Talk about learning more techniques for final Cut, analysing some real music videos and looking at student examples,talk from promo director, music range of choices, etc)

Which band/artist did your group choose and why?
(give some positive reasons here)

How did you ‘pitch’ for them?
(summarise briefly)

Where did you get your ideas from? Cite actual examples as shown on your blog!

What tasks had to be done in the research and planning phase? How were these handled and what could have been done to improve them?
(talk about storyboarding, animatic, organising places, props, equipment, people)

How did the group come to decisions about approaches to the tasks to be completed? (what range of options did you consider and why did you opt for the choices you made?)

What roles did the various people in the group take on? Concentrate particularly on your role in the various activities.

Talk about any test footage you shot. What did you learn from doing these tests and from the animatic?

Write about the shoot. What went well/badly? what could you have done differently?

Consider your early editing and how you reached the rough cut stage. Outline this process and discuss decision-making you undertook.

What does the group feel about the rough cut? What feedback have you had from director/ other students etc? what still needs to be done?

ROUGH CUT

Filming and Photographing

Filming Log

So we've filmed much our footage for the rough cut (due at the end of the week), and despite some teething problems with the equipment and camera compatibility we're pretty confident that all is going as planned.

Filming in the rain was much more difficult than we anticipated (try holding an umbrella in your teeth in high wind whilst attempting to film without getting the camera wet also whilst your dog savages you because you won't play fetch ALSO whilst remaining vigilant about the local (reported) "strange lurking homeless man" and you may just about understand our difficulties) but we got the footage we required and were well prepared for the weather. All in all a triumph in planning.

The rest of the footage, filmed at Jo's house was also a success, with origami cranes galore. We obtained some filler shots as insurance in case some footage is not as good as we intended.

And so now the editing process shall begin. Rough cut coming soon...

Test Footage

Here we have experimented with use of special effects such as camera cranking (fast and slow), and various filters. Whilst we particularly like the bluish colour correction, we also think that a brighter filter would be more in keeping with our intended aesthetic.

Crafty Items

Feedback on our Blog

Our feedback was amazingly positive.

List below the content of each of the posts. Are there any types of posts that you think are missing from the blog?

Basically we have everything we could possibly have included, although some people commented that student video analysis was missing. However, this is because we have yet to find a student video vaguely resembling how we are planning on making our music video. People also mentioned that they liked our pictures, and that overall our blog was "Good shizz".

Is there evidence in the blog that the group has:
completed background research?
Organised personnel, locations and equipment for shooting?
Developed ideas since the initial concept?

Comments made were (if irrelevant to the question):

Inspiration clear, TMI (in a good way), and STYLE.

Is there anything else we could possibly include, short of naked pictures?

No student videos (already explained)
More children in suits (????)
Costume list/prop list (see our impossibly large prop and costume list. I can only assume that they were either being sarcastic or just missed it)
Stuff?
You've pretty much done most of it all.

Overall assessment.

All 6 of the groups rated our blog as level 4- excellent planning- 24-30 marks.

Test Footage

Locations and Props

This is a test shot of the frame for the lyrics 'Will it cure my blushes'

This is Kirsty's dog. We might include this dog.

This is Kirsty's rabbit. It is EVILE.

Location 1: Kirsty's Green Room (Kirsty's Mum's "Special Room")

An example of the kind of craft items we will be using as props in the video. We made this especially.

More of location 1.

Picture frames - may be included. These are all members of Kirsty's immediate family (They're all really old now).

Prop: Bear hat (doesn't Jo look adorable (Jo wrote that)?)

Location 2. Jo's bedroom (fullllll of fairy lights we want to use)

More of Jo's room.

Yet more...

More still...

Location 2. Kirsty's kitchen (and her sister's ass). As you can see, Kirsty's house is very kitsch.