I have had a one-to-one with my media teacher. She watched my video and suggested some changes:
There needs to be more narrative - There needs to be clips of the boy making the project in the stop frame.This is so that it is clear that he is making it. I need to insert clips of the boy making the stop frame and then cut to the scene he has just done. I could also show his failures and successes.
In the montages at the beginning and end, there needs to be sound effects rather than it just being silent.
There needs to be more movement in relation to the Lego.
For this scene, the characters could swap places or they could rotate around
For this scene, I could have them moving (more fluently) and have a love heart moving behind them until they are inside it
I have had to change some of the video as I wasn't able to do some of the scenes with the props and set I had. I think this is a big improvement from my first attempt.
I have used backgrounds this time to make it look better visually. I have made my montages shorter than they were in my first attempt. I have also used a lamp for lighting rather than using natural lighting. This has improved the video as the shadows aren't moving like they were in my first attempt. I used a page turn effect as I wanted to create the effect of someone looking back through a photo album of their memories.
One thing I could improve on if I re-shoot is to try and make the lighting look less yellow. I also need to take some more images as I didn't quite have enough. I also realised once I had finished editing that some of my images are a little bit blurry. I also need to make my edits faster because some of them are too slow and make the movement of characters look clumpy. At the end of my video there is a loud buzzing sound for some reason. It is just meant to be silent like the beginning of the video. I checked my video before I uploaded and it was fine, so I think something has gone wrong in the uploading process.
Once I had finished editing I had a look at the theorists to see if any applied to my music video. Two theories I have found work with my video are Tessa Perkins' 'Stereotype' theory and Sven Carlsson's 'Narrative Structure' theory.
Perkins' theory applies to my video because the stop motion characters are wearing clothes that fit into the stereotype of a rock band. They are all wearing dark clothing and the girl has brightly coloured hair. This image they have fits into the stereotype and therefore conforms to Perkins' theory.
Carlsson's theory applies to my video because there is a narrative to my video. There is a narrative within a narrative. The main narrative is that a boy is making a stop frame animation for a school project. The other narrative is the story that is told through the stop motion. There is also some performance in the stop frame. This is when the characters are practicing in the garage and when they are on stage.
This is a bit of the behind the scenes. I wanted to show me moving my characters so that I could demonstrate how I got the images to make my stop frame. I have previously posted an image of one of the tripods I used and the other one I used, I showed in my filming on location video. I wasn't able to film a video of me setting up the tripods because they are both in fixed positions so all I did was attach the camera. That is why I chose to film the behind the scenes of the stop frame.
I filmed two videos to talk about what I did and why I did it. When I needed to change an idea, I stopped doing my stop frame and filmed what I was about to do. I also explained a bit about the changes and why I made them.
These are the responses I got from my survey. I got three responses, even though I was hoping for a few more, I got better answers because they weren't able to copy what someone else had said.
I wanted to use a split screen in my video because I wanted to show the band. After watching this tutorial and trying out the split screen, I didn't like how it made my video look. In the tutorial, towards the end, it talks about how to put a picture onto a picture. I tried this out and I really liked how it looked in my video, so I decided to use this effect instead.
The images in my video were zooming in and out but I didn't want them to. I tried looking at how to stop them doing it but I couldn't figure it out. I watched this tutorial and found how to do it.
I wanted to use QuickTime Player to record myself doing some of the editing effects I put into my video. I knew where it was in the launchpad but I didn't know how to use it so I found this video to explain what I needed to do to record.
These are the two videos I did using QuickTime Player.
The effect I used for the main part of my editing is the 'Aged Film' effect. This is because I thought it was the best effect for making the video look older as it is looking back.
This is what the original image looked like.
This is what it looked like when I applied the effect
For the end of the video I decided to use a black and white effect because the first verse of the song is about the band splitting up and using a black and white filter is conventional to show that something upsetting has happened.
To prove that using a filter that has no colours in it is conventional of something sad, I screen shotted this from 'Hello' by Adele. This song is about breaking up which is why it was not done in colour.
This is how it looked with the filter.
Without a filter makes it look like they are still enjoying themselves. The darkness of the filter shows the audience that the band have broken up.
For my first draft, I did it all in a
weekend during the day. I had to do it during the day because I was using
natural lighting because I wanted to see if this would work. When I edited some
of the shots together to see how it looked, I noticed that the shadows were
moving because I filmed during the day.
I will next be filming on the 19th/20th because that is when I will hopefully have everything I need to take my shots.
Because all my filming is taking place inside my house, it doesn't matter what the weather is doing because I'm not using natural lighting when I re-film. This means that i don't need to rely on the weather in order for my filming to take place.
