Positives:
Ms Barton really liked how we had arranged the mise-en-scene to relate the music video to the name of the band "The Colours". We have tried to use colour a lot, and the red bed cover and red light of the alarm clock were examples of this working very well. Ms Barton told us to do more of this to really emphasize it.
Our tutor also liked the amount of shots we had done - she thought the amount of different angles and shots we had experimented with was good. This will ensure that we have enough footage when we start editing our music video together.
Negatives:
Ms Barton told us that we needed to get out of the location of the house as quickly as possible. While we only spend about 30 seconds in the house in the narrative we created, this slightly dull location could put people off the video before it has really begun. To fix this, we are planning to go to more interesting areas, such as car parks and bridges.
Continuing on from this, while she said our range of shots was good (as aforementioned), she said that we needed more shots that are different and diverse. A shot we decided to try was a circular moving shot of the boys face at the beginning of the music video. We got the inspiration for this shot from the openings to two movies - Shallow Grave and Apocalypse Now, which both use this shot in their opening sequences.
Our music video will have intertextual references to the start of Shallow Grave other than this, though. In this video, we see a point of view shots of someone or something travelling through the city, and this relates to the walking/running theme of our music video. Also, the shot of a wood at 1:20 are similar to the shots I took for a possible shooting location for our music video. So, overall, our music video has a strong intertextual reference to Shallow Grave.
While not a criticism, a problem we ran into in our first shooting session was that our initial camera did not read SD cards - as we had no time to go and get another camera, we had to use Joe's camera. While this was quite good, it is not quite up to the quality of the school's cameras. Because of this, we will have to reshoot some shots - but this does not make too much difference, as we were planning to reshoot most of the opening shots anyway to improve them following Ms Barton's advice. We have learnt from this - we will thoroughly check that the camera and the SD card work before leaving to start shooting next time.
Finally, our tutor expressed her largest concern - that we would not finish shooting in time. We have taken that on board well, and in the next week (15th October - 22nd October) we will be shooting for approximately 20 hours, as shown by our shooting schedule (5 hours on 16th October, 3 hours 20 minutes on 18th October, and all day on 21st October). We should now be able to get our shooting done before the deadline.
An intelligent evaluation of feedback, I've had another idea, re your reference to a bird's eye shot of the main character walking down the stairs of the house...excellent camera angle but you could cut to a low angle zoom close up of the character coming down an escalor in a store, i.e. a store in one of the malls, or in New Look to reinforce the idea of movement. Also adds variety to mise-en-scene - try the idea if you can - depends on shoppers getting in way!!! Think about it.
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