Finished First Draft

Here is the final edited film that I edited from footage from multiple shoots. This is only our first draft but it has helped us decide what we still need to do and gives us a better idea on the strengths and weakness's of our video.

After finishing this final cut we sat down as a group and combined with the input of our teacher we have come up with the following strengths and weakness's.

Weakness's
- It appears she is walking to much. We need to try to make it seem as she is walking for a purpose. The purpose is of course to get to the field and perform the last section of the song. But this does not come across very well.
- At the first section of our music video where she is singing into the camera it does not give the right feel we were going for. We aimed to make it seem as she is singing aimlessly, almost mumbling but it is very clear she is singing out and performing. Because of this we will re-film but from a slightly different angle so that the camera is further behind her but can still see her lips moving.

- In the intro when the film cuts between close ups of flowers. It works well but when it starts to cut between the waterfall we see the same effect and it starts to become tedious. Because of this we will try to find something else to be here
-Since filming the dancers we have really sat down and worked out how to film them properly. This includes almost filming move by move to make sure we get good cuts. This has all steamed from the poor quality of the filming we currently have of them.
- We also need to think about introducing the dancers earlier in the video to make them fit better, we are considering seeing them physically bump into the lead.
- In the final section of the video we see the lead singing into the camera. This is framed completely wrong and will need to rethought.

Strength's
- Good Continuity
- The shaking at the start of the music video and the clips of the everyday people link well.
- Rule of thirds used well throughout apart from final section.
- The introduction of color as the music volume increases is good.
-The tracking shot of the normal, everyday people works really well. It was filmed while being on a bus so we plan to alter the technique slightly so we can control how fast we go by using a car instead.