Facebook Group

I created a Facebook group with our music video on it today entitled "Christain, Nathaniel and Alex's music video. Feedback please". The reason for this FB group is so that people can comment on the video and give us feedback on how we can improve the video and what's good about it. So far we have had comments from Scott, Tom, Leanne and my friend James from Australia. My sister has also posted the video to her profile so that a wider range of people can see it. 

Feedback

We got some feedback from the class about our music video. Positive and Negative. The positive feedback is as follows:


- Good lighting
- Good camera work
- Good performance


The negative feedback we got was:


- Slow motion perhaps doesn't work on the bass?
- When Nathan comes in to do the backing singing it looks like he comes in from nowhere
- We should have a story for our video
- We need more shots of the drummer

Goals

Goals for today (Friday 18.03.11).


Short term goal - Our short term goal is to get the guitar in the introduction synced correctly. At the moment it shows the guitar playing one part of the song when the audio file is playing a separate part to the song which makes it look out of sync. The guitarist is playing the guitar solo when it is just the introduction so it looks like the guitar is playing more than it needs to be playing.


Medium term goal - The medium term goal is to get the rest of the footage into Final Cut and to finish the editing the performance video. So far we have done the Introduction, First verse, first chorus and the beginning of the second verse. We need to finish the video with the Rest of the second verse, second chorus, guitar solo, bridge/middle 8, and final chorus.


Long term goal - Our long term goal is to have a final video that we are pleased with and Nick is pleased with uploaded to Vimeo. I think the goal is not impossible because the editing we have done so far is coming along really well. Alex is our top editor and he is doing a fantastic job of editing. Myself and Nathaniel are helping in any way we can though.

Editing 17.03.11

Today we have been continuing with the editing for our performance video that's due in tomorrow. We are having a problem with the intro though because it shows the guitar playing one part of the song when the song is actually playing a completely different part. The video shows the guitar playing the guitar solo during the introduction which makes it look wrong because the intro is a lot slower than the solo.

Learning the Song..

I learnt the song for our music video to make it much more realistic when recording. It worked a lot better when filming because I'd learnt the lyrics to the song and I knew the guitar part. To learn the guitar chords I went on www.ultimate-guitar.com and searched the name of the song and it came up with the chords. The song is incredibly simple In the introduction the chords are G, Bm, Am, D and are the same in the verse. It changes when it gets to the pre-chorus because the chords become Em, D, Em, D, C, D, C, D and then it goes back into the chorus which is the same as the intro and verse (G, Bm, Am, D). To learn the guitar riff at the beginning I just played around the notes in the key of the song (G) and eventually found the order that the notes are played in. I didn't learn the guitar solo so I just played the chords that the rhythm guitarist plays during the solo which are again just G, Bm, Am, D.

15.03.11 Conclusion

We re-recorded the drums for our music video today. We have decided that we will need to also re-record the bass as well. The reason for this is that the clips we have of the bass are not very well lighted and are quite short. unfortunately Nathaniel didn't have his bass with him today but he's bringing it in tomorrow so we can record the bass line again. We need to sort the lighting out because it was to dark before so if we just shine it a bit higher then it should be okay.

Plan for 15.03.11

Today our plans were to start filming at 9 through until 11 but Nathan has fallen ill so we will be starting a bit later. We used an HD camera for our original recording but we didn't film it in HD so we need to re-record some of our work. Alex has bought his flag back in and I have my guitar with me. Nathan will be bringing his bass and we just need to set up the lights, microphone and drum kit so we can start recording again. This is quite unfortunate considering we have been asked to have a performance video by tomorrow.