Final Cut

Final Cut from Sarah Chamberlain on Vimeo.

Feedback

As a class we viewed each others videos and wrote feedback for each group. Our feedback was mainly positive but there were a few improvements to be made. Here was our feedback:

Music and instruments are in time
short frames?
quicker cuts?
overall-good

Music and filming fit well

good timings

quicker cuts?

ending needs finishing

thought it was good :)

Location looks really good - suits the song/theme

close ups of guitar good

different angles are effective

in some places more cuts could be used

camera is a bit wobbly in some bits

Good sync to lyrics

the drums are good and the guitars

good use of camera all around

camera wobbly in some areas

mise-en-scene good

fits genre of song

Looked real, in sync

suits the song

great fast cuts

the cuts to the instruments work well keeping up the fast tempo

ends well

the editing is great

Good opening

not sure about 1.44

really nicely edited

3.00 guitar solo should be more obvious

better ending needed

Good start of filming before guitars

guitar solo slightly out of time

like close-ups of singer

like camera movements when its handheld

shots of drummer above look wicked

its all really exciting

so well timed

SO GOOD

Start good in time with music

singing at start a bit out of sync

close ups are good

setting suits song

its so good!

Good quick cut before he starts singing

good close ups when singing

good close ups of instruments

good shots of whole band

excellent camera movement

Handheld camera is I think a bit too shakey at the beginning

the miming is bang on time :)

The close up when he is singing is very good

the handheld camera makes i very personal

can be a bit repetitive of guitar close ups

think the editing could be tighter at the end as it gets faster

love the angles of singers face

Filming

We booked the Red Lion in Gravesend for a five hour slot. We booked it from 3pm-8pm, however, not every band member could make the whole time alloted due to work and family arrangements. This restricted our options. After contemplation we decided to film the whole band shots and close ups of Jon first, as he had to leave at 6, and then the individual shots of the other members of the band when he had left. This worked quite well.


The only problem with this venue is that we had to provide our own instruments. This didn't cause too much hassle until we realised that Tom had forgotten one of the supports of the drums from his kit. After a lot of running around and thinking of make-shift stands, he realised he didn't even hit that drum so it wouldn't make much difference. A part from these hiccups, it all ran rather smoothly.


Every one of us did some filming, and when the others weren't, we were helping direct. The boys were very cooperative and did as we asked, making the whole process a lot easier and less time consuming. Each of us put in our own input and help each other out so overall I think everyone was pleased with the footage.

Animatic

Here is the animatic in all it's glory.

Animatic from Sarah Chamberlain on Vimeo.

Animatic process

The animatic was a very long winded process. First we had to draw the pictures and then transfer them to the computer and then put the images together to fit in time with the song which we have chosen. Our main problem was with the drawings. Although we had drawn a few in class, these somehow went missing so had to be replaced. As I was the one who lost them, I redrew the pictures we lost and the rest that we needed. I then went on to take photos of them all, transfer them onto the computer and from there put them into finalcut, in time with the song. It was very frustrating, especially as it was the exercise to get us used to the software and many mishaps happened. For example, after spending 2 hours on it, I forgot to render it, causing all of it to not open the next time I came to it and having to start fresh. Also, when I tried to do this, the software itself stopped showing the cuts from one image to another, so I had to start again on another computer. There were far less substantial issues with this attempt and within the next couple of lessons I got it finished.