Contacting Little Man Tate

I sent an e-mail to Little Man Tate saying that we used there song for our music video. Unfortunately they haven't responded but they might do in the future. I mentioned who we were and why we were making the video. We also said we would send them a copy of the final cut when it's finished.

Extra Footage

Me and Nathaniel shot some extra footage and were planning to upload it and put it into final cut but the tape that we recorded the extra footage was broken so we couldn't upload it. We plan to re-record this extra footage with a different tape so we can successfully upload it and edit it in Final cut with our video.

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.