Public Feedback

After posting a link to our video on the blogging website Tumblr, we received some feedback from the public about the strengths and weaknesses of the music video. We received two individual 'likes' on the video and were also given an in depth response from one person, to which we replied with our thoughts and answered his questions.

Here you can see his response. We very much appreciated his thoughts and he later commented on Tumblr that he did really like the video and hoped it went well for us both, which we thought was nice of him.
I think this shows that we have taken into consideration what the public would expect from a Blink-182 video and have tried to create something that we think would appeal to fans of the band.

Public opinions on the video so far.

I decided that as a way of getting a wider, objective and more varied opinion of our music video so far, that I would share a link to our video on my personal blog on the website Tumblr.

I will post any responses we get at a later date. Hopefully this will enable us to get some good, honest feedback from the general public and fans of the band.

Final Music Video 1

This is the first full edit of our music video. The quality is bad due to compression. Oh well.

Editing Update

In today's lesson, we made some final adjustments to our music video, ready to show Mel on Monday so she can give us feedback. We changed some of the lip-synching so it was more accurate and added in some more performance shots to break up the shots of vocal performance.
We also thought that the narrative shots of our main character outside were too sunny for the sort of feel we're going for. Obviously, the weather is something we can't change, so we decided to look into some effects to change the mood and tone of these shots. We found one that adjusted the colours and midtones of  the shots, so used this to create a more gritty feel. We adjusted the saturation levels and increased the darkness slightly, which helps to remove the sunny glare you initially got from our narrative shots. I think it looks much better because of it.

Filming and Editing update

Over the past week, we've been busy trying to get all of the filming we needed out of the way so that we could focus on editing over the next couple of weeks, before the deadline. On Sunday, we finished filming all of the narrative footage that we needed to complete our music video. It went pretty well, with very few glitches and I think the footage we captured was all very usable. We have decided that next weekend, if we have the time, we are going to re-shoot some footage to make sure that all of the shots we have are of a very good standard.
Over the past two days, both in lesson and in free time we have been editing our music video, to the point where today, I have finished putting all of it together. No doubt, there will be a few things that may need changing when our teacher looks at our work, but overall we're very happy with what we have so far. We hope that now we have finished a first edit, we will have plenty of time to try out effects and really perfect what may need tweaking. I will upload a rough version of the music video soon.

After Midnight: The new blink-182 video.

I thought it would be relevant to look into the new video by blink-182 to look at the current direction they are going in and see how it relates to our own music video from the same album.
After Midnight is a slower, more ballad like song and therefore the pace is quite different to ours. However, the split of narrative and performance is quite similar and their use of a grungey, desolate and isolated environment for the setting of their performance is similar to the approach we were going for, which I think shows our knowledge of the genre and the band themselves.
I think that the performance side to this video shows some classic blink-182 features. We captured the same sort of characteristics in our band members that are reflected in blink-182 themselves, such as their interaction with the camera and their performance styles. There is very little direct eye contact and they don't seem to have any awareness that the camera is there, which is something that we have also included in our performance.
Another thing that I feel we have related to the band is the se of costume and mise-en-scene. The band have a very distinctive image that we have tried to mirror in our actors:

Feedback from Mel

After having our first review with Mel, she gave us the following feedback:

• Adjust the framing of some of the performance shots. There is a particular close up of our frontman which is a bit off.
• Make more clear the relationship between Rory and the band. The intention is that the band is essentially apathetic towards him, but this could be made clearer.
• Use more shots of the drums. The song is very driven by drumming, because Travis Barker is God. For this reason we need to put more emphasis on the heavier drum rolls and such.
• Get the frontman to look down the lens more often.

That's pretty much it.