Rough Cut

Here is the rough cut we have made! We will shortly be making a focus group and a Facebook group in order to get some audience feedback on our music video.

Rough cut finished

Today we have been finishing our rough cut of our music video on Sony Vegas Pro 11, which we successfully managed to do. We wanted the cutting of our video to be smooth and relate well to the lyrics which will reflect the song, which also links in with Andrews Goodwin's point that the music and visuals are linked in music videos

When editing our video we have focused on syncing the singing just right so that it looks professionally and on time with the music which you can see from the image above. We are taking our time with this part of the music video and carefully editing his singing to the song lyrics. This will help promote the artist and make him look better if its done right which is  vital within conventions of music videos which would make it more appealing to our target audience.

Editing Update

Today on Thursday the 29th we carried on editing for our music video. We are nearly close to finishing our rough cut and it should be done by tomorrow on Friday the 30th, which we will then be collecting our audience feedback. This means we are currently on schedule if everything goes to plan.

Time management update

This is an update on what we plan to do this upcoming month of December.

Narrative Finished

Today we finally finished our narrative in our spare time. The filming was successful and we will start to edit these clips in our lessons tomorrow on Thursday the 29th.

We hope to finish the last performance clip of the long shot of the band tomorrow also on the 29th. This shouldn't take long as we just need to do one shot. After that we have all the clips we need to finish our music video.

Editing

For editing we have decided to use the software Sony Vegas Pro 11. We will use this software to capture and cut all of our clips together to create our final music video.

This is how much we have edited so far, we are more than half way done. We still need to finish some filming  but we are keeping up with our time as we are editing on the clips we have so far and will add the missing ones when we are finished

So far as a group we are quite happy with what our music video looks like. From looking back at our previous research it is following the theory of Andrew Goodwin  where their is a relationship between the music and the visuals where we have tried to represent the emotions of the soldier which helps the audience connect to the song. Our narrative also follows Barthes theory of having the Semantic code, so far we have edited to direct the audience through the soldiers journey through different movements of camera shots.

Time management update

We were planning on doing some extra filming to finish the narrative tonight on Thursday the 22nd of November, unfortunately we have had to cancel due to bad weather. However we plan to do the filming tomorrow night instead so this is not a problem.

We hope to finish both the performance and the narrative by next Thursday on the 29th. Although in our time schedule we have planned this to start editing, we have decided to edit as we go along that way we are making efficient use of our time.