Evaluation Of Final Cut

Did it meet your expectations?

The song we chose (Stay At Home by One Night Only) presented us with an upbeat tempo and lively sounds throughout. From this, we wanted to use the idea of a main character causing havoc around town. This could also be said for the band members who would be doing the same during their band performance. For us, we think that we have achieved this narrative successfully and have used it to a great effect within the video. The planning in shooting this narrative did have it's difficulties, such as setting up the tripod and camera on a hill so that it wouldn't like a canted angle. But we say that the time taken in making it was worthwhile.

The performance was quite a surprise that turned out for the best for us. On our first shooting day, we performed in an open-garage location with three of the four group members involved on the day. After looking over the shots and reading the feedback from our Rough Cut, we then thought that we needed to re-film the performance with different roles and a different location. This time, we filmed in a back garden (Harrison's garden specifically), which we thought was a better location because of how chaotic it looked - this was the kind of location we wanted to show the havoc the band members were in (hence why we used the open garage location in the first place). And because of the time we were shooting at, it became dark outside which gave us an opportunity to experiment with the lighting. Looking back, if we shot in daylight, it wouldn't have been as effective. However, these changes have been shaped to our liking, and we expected the second band shooting to be the most improved shots in our video.

Overall, we all think that we have achieved the visions that we have captured for the video, and we have used these ideas to a great effect that we are sure others would like. There were some people in the group that had different tastes to what this song had to offer, but we were not deterred from the creation of this music video. In fact, without these various likes and dislikes of certain genres, the music video might not have been like it is now - variety played an important part in our final cut.