Response To Feedback

Changing Location

At the stage of planning, we had a few locations in mind (most of them we were not able to film in) and we were limited to a small number of options, one of them being an open-garage performance. This might not have been successful because of the positioning of the camera, but from the response of the location, it could also be because of how it didn't fit with the clips we had.
To resolve this, we will take some of our current performance footage out and replace them with footage from a different location. Our location will be [Harrison's] back garden at night, and we are hoping to use a lot of lighting to show the band in a chaotic way. This location will probably be most used at the bridge or the last chorus of the song because of continuity/chronology. For additional filming around this specific location, we will most likely be filming outside the house but peering through the large living room window. This could be either for performance or for improvisation for band members (e.g. raving, running around crazy).

Adding More Transitions

We agree that most of our video consists of cuts, but we are planning to add more split-screens and more visual effects so that it could make it more dynamic. There is one part in the rough cut which we didn't have time to do, which was the make a split-screen so that the 'other' person on one side of the screen pushes the other side offscreen. From what we know, it is quite difficult to achieve this transition, and we were more focused on filling the gaps at the time.

Lip-Syncing/Instrument Issues

This was during pressure when we had a short period of time to make the rough cut deadline, and because our clips kept needing to be rendered whenever we put a new performance clip in or whenever we make changes to the clip. This reduced the time we had left before the deadline.
We agree that our use of instruments in the video wasn't very convincing, and for the next time we film, we will make things easier for ourselves so that we are seen with them more realistically (e.g. using a guitar pick rather than the palm of the hand, using a better prop as a microphone etc) Also, we have made sure that everyone in the group is making the shooting day, so our original roles will return to normal, even though we have to film other things so that the audience will know how the changes had been made.

Other Problems We Faced

On the day we shooted the performance at the open-garage area, we had one person in our group who couldn't make the shooting day, and because there were three instruments to play when we only had three people left in our group, the camera had to be on a tripod at all times and we had no opportunities to use handheld shots or to use our speeded soundtrack so that we could've made footage of the performance with a slow-motion transition whilst keeping the lip-syncing in time with the lyrics.