Rough Cut Feedback

Now that the rough cut is finished we had the rest of the class look at our video and give us some feedback and advice. letting us know what they thought was good and the areas that would need improving. The overall conclusion of the group was that the shots used for instruments were good, everything seemed synced to the music (especially the drums), and the video flowed well but it was deemed that improvements would be needed since the class did pick up on a few:

• The lighting was pointed out by many people as being varied throughout the video and this needs to be corrected. the focus for our problem was how our lighting was not powerful enough for most shots, also the light coming through the window was sometimes too bright, obscuring the rest of the shot. Hopefully when we next film the natural lighting will be slightly less, if not we will have to edit the contrast of our shots.

• Another problem that was pointed out was how the singer didn't look into the camera alot and therefore didn't connect with the audience as much as the reviewer's liked. This will be easy to correct when rerecording and we'll have to replace some of the singers shot with this in mind.
  

• The opening of our rough cut was described as being 'jolty', we thought best that we re-film with a bigger and more interesting stained glass window in the church of which we saw in our photos of our first visit.
  

• We realised afterward that there were parts of the video where the signer or instruments fell out of sync with the music. So we thought best to sort this out after our second filming since we planned on getting new instrument shots.
  

With this feedback me and my group are happy with the results but understand that we have missed/lacked some aspects of which still needs improving or fixing. We are re-filming in the church again on the 5th of February, we plan on doing the following:

1. Re film the opening using the bigger stained glass window and less jolting
2. Re film singer shots we liked from the rough cut with better lighting
3. Film more shots of singer looking at camera
4. Film a close up of lips with the line ‘all my secrets away’
5. Film more varied shots of strings and fingers
6. Create more energy in chorus
7. Film faster cello shots so they look correct to the audience