Feedback and the Reshoot

During lesson on Monday the 6th of November, we gained some audience feedback from our peers. We had people look at our music video and then fill in a sheet to let us know what they liked, what they disliked and what they thought we could improve on. Most of this feedback was positive of constructive. This helped us to be able to come up with new ideas to use when we did our reshoot. Some of the positive comments were that the style of our editing looked good and related to the music. Other comments were that our shot types were good and we had produced a good relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. The constructive feedback was that the lip syncing was out in a couple of places and this would need highlighting and fixing. Our feedback also showed that we needed more of a variety of different angles and shot types, specifically of the singer, bassist and guitarist.

With this feedback in mind, we decided that on Wednesday the 7th of November, we would go out during lesson and try and think of some test shots and see what looked effective and what didnt. Unfortunately we could not go back to the original location because all of the filming had to be done during lesson time. This meant that we had to find a secondary location in which to film these shots. We decided on a small woodland area just by the college because this seemed to have everything we were looking for in a location linked to our original one. Whilst taking this test footage, it was clear that we needed more movement from the camera as all of our original shots were still and from the same angle and distance. We took test footage of high angle shots, long shots, tracking shots and mid shots to see what would look effective for our music video. With this footage, we decided on the shots to do for our reshoot and we were almost prepared to film.

During the lesson on Wednesday 7th, we decided that Friday the 9th of November would be the best day for us to reshoot. With this in mind, it was decided that all the band members had to come with the same clothes they had during the initial filming to provide continuety, they also needed to bring any equipment that they had during the first shoot and that they needed to be on time so that we could get all the shots we needed during the lesson.

On Friday the 9th of November, everyone involved in the filming had arrived at the lesson and we went to the location to film. Unfortunately the drummer could not be at the reshoot because he works during the week, but that was not a problem because we had enough coverage of him through a variety of different angles and shot types. At the reshoot, we began initially by getting more coverage of the bassist as there was not much of him. We gained two or three shots which we thought would be effective and we could pick and choose between them for the editing process. Wethen decided to gain more shots of the guitarist so we also took two or three different shots of him in a varity of different angles. We then decided that it would look effective to have shots of both the bassist and guitarist together showing a lot of passion to make it look more realistic. We decided to encorperate camera movement into these shots. These shots looked really good and the group as a whole were happy with them. Finally, it was time to gain the all important coverage of the singer. With this in mind, we decided that a variety of different angles would look good. We decided that we wanted a high angle shot on the singer showing a lot of passion. To do this, we needed to use the wheelchair provided to gain the hight we needed. To comply to health and safety, we mande sure that the brakes on the wheelchair were filmly placed on and that two other group members held the camera person to make sure they didnt fall at any point. We decided to use a canted angle for this shot because it made it look a bit more abstract which is what we were trying to achieve with our music video. We also took a shot of the camera following up to the singer and then showing his face singing. We would then speed up the walking process to make it look abstract and then have it slowed down to original speed where we see the singer. We also got a few more shots of the singer to make sure we had a lot of coverage.

Overall, the reshoot was effective because it allowed us to be able to use our feedback in relation to making our music video more appealing to the target audience as well as making it more interesting. We managed to gain a lot of coverage which was our aim and we used our test footage in mind to gain this footage.