Improvements for Draft

After watching the video together we decided upon points we thought we could have done better on. These will be considered for final copy.

List of things we need to improve:

·         Order shots with piece of paper with shot number on to improve speed when editing

·         Lighting needs to better- it’s not bright enough and there is more light on the left hand side

·         Mise-en-scene (you can see a plug and sometimes skirting board and wall corner)

·         The transitions need to be smoother because it looks jumpy at times

·         The lip syncing needs to be spot on

·         Drum and guitar playing needs to look more realistic and in time

·         Band members need to look more authentic e.g. not looking awkward throughout

·         Band members need to look forward and not down unless storyboarded

·         Storyboard needs to be more fool proof; there were two occasions which extra shots had to be added in which weren’t on the storyboard because we hadn’t accommodated for a few seconds of the music. These are where the shooting star scene repeats itself three times when it was only intended once and the shots of the drum ‘Cheap Kicks’ wasn’t written into the storyboard and only appears as it was an extra shot and we needed to fill space.

·         More interesting angles used on band? A lot of it seems to be repeated and standard shots

·         Location change? The cream wall we shot against wasn’t in a big enough room as we couldn’t fit in everything e.g. long shots didn’t show below the knees when they were storyboarded to. It was hard to fit the drums in- wasn’t wide enough

·         Change of ideas at beginning? Where the hearts should be (not in YouTube clip as we didn’t complete the first minute of draft due to technical issues) seems to be harder than anticipated as it goes on for too long and when we tried to take pictures for these shots the camera can’t fit them all in or pick up on the chalk.

·         Camera wobbles on occasions need to be stricter with tripod

·         Camera angles move

·         Hand appears at the side of one shot which wasn’t realised until editing

·         Continuity Ellie’s head is suddenly facing a different way towards the end

·         Need to accommodate for the fact the display picture on the camera actually crops out slightly which meant plug socket appeared unintended

·         Zoom changes on scenes of Ellie and Sam

·         We need better time keeping for filming

·         Better organisation for filming and editing- not leave it last minute (although wasn’t our fault for editing software only just fixed in time)

·         Need to recheck shots once filmed as previously we didn’t check which meant we didn’t realise when shots weren’t as successful as intended