Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Rough cut

In today's lesson, we converted and uploaded to Youtube our product's rough cut. The piece is less refined, and we still have a lot of footage to add, however, it shows a very good idea of what we want to achieve as a final piece. For the final piece, we need more performance parts mainly, with better focus on instruments, as currently, we're seen using an acoustic guitar, which is obviously the wrong instrument. To do this we will use another filming slot and use Ahren's house to use proper instruments,   and possibly re-do some specific parts, such as the guitar solo.
One of the main tweaks with the footage today, was with the dolly shot of the bedroom. I felt as though it was needed before the flashback, and just as I was shown to be up on the landing. It worked well in the end, as there was a good cause/effect portrayal. Another way we fattened out the footage content was to recycle out-takes, that are especially effective as they have an authenticity to them that acting does not give. They also look a lot rougher, making for effective footage for our narrative.
In terms of what I'd like to keep for the final cut, my favourite scene so far is the dolly/flashback shot - along with recycled footage to avoid the less than satisfactory master shot footage, I think it's a very stylish and flowing part of our narrative.
My least favourite part of the rough cut is the ending, where I'm shown to be sitting back on the chair, where I started. I don't like how for about 10 seconds of footage, I'm completely static, and it also dampens the effect of the music video, which shouldn't be as tame as this shot shows to be.

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