Rough Cut Feedback

Now that we have completed our rough cut I feel that there are both positives and negatives to the outcome. I now feel that we have managed to make the narrative clear of a man controlling and producing the music video. 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. But watching this it, we were given the advice to change the structure of the video around, as the narrative of Felix building the music video wasn’t as clear as it could be.
So 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), putting together the performance room, UV paint room, laser room and dry ice dancing shots – 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 this was slightly too fast, as you couldn’t focus on the elements. So we elongated the favorite shots, and this added more variety in shot length. 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.
Possibly the biggest task now is to complete the design of the green screen rooms, 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 sound waves, and projection to give a technical element to the video. But none of this can be done until we have finalized for definite our rough cut, as the green screen room included the past and previous shots. But I feel once this has been created and edited into the video, our video will have more fluidity and clarity for the narrative. X