Rough Cut Evaluation

Now that we have completed our rough cut I see that there are both positives and negatives to the outcome. I feel that we have managed to make the narrative clear of a man controlling and producing the music video just by the way a new room is introduced after each major green screen room sections. But this wasn’t like this to begin with, as we just cut all of our footage together to the song, and then added the green screen shots, and without the green screen it didn' make sense. But watching this, we were given the advice to change the structure of the video around, as the narrative of the singer building the music video wasn’t as clear as it could be.

We decided to start from scratch, by beginning a new timeline, starting with the green screen, and then he would slowly add the different elements in (as if the creation of the video is taking place in front of the viewer), putting together the performance room, Laser room, UV room and dry ice dancing – but we were still able to take our favorite shots from the original timeline, and add them to the new. We were following the rule of cutting to the beat, therefore the shots that were cut were extremely fast and short, and we all decided that the song was slightly too fast, which meant couldn’t focus on the elements. So we elongated the favorite shots, and this added more variety in shot length creating a varied pace. I was glad that we made this decision of starting again, and changing the shot length, as now you can focus on the shots, whilst having a clear narrative to drive the video on.

Possibly the biggest task now is to complete the design of the green screen shots, and we are still yet to complete this. Our lessons from now on will be entirely based on the completion of this. We want to add wave forms for the sound creation, and projection to give a technical element to the video and to create the conecting factor. None of this can be done until we have finalized for definite our rough cut with Luke, as the green screen room included the past and previous shots. I feel once this has been created and edited into the video, our video will have more fluidity and clarity for the narrative.