Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Today we have improved the video with effects and making changes to some parts of it. We asked for advice from peers as well as teachers to see what could be improved. Some of the things that were said was that some of the clips were on for too long. We were therefore advised to cut these clips down and use some other footage in places to help follow the tune of the song. Consequently, we went through all of our captured footage and use parts of it that we haven't already used to help add more depth to the video. We also filmed quick rushes of the performers around college, to fit in specifically with the lyrics of the song. For example, we made Lilian look as though he was 'wasted' on the stairs of college, this was a literal reflect of the lyrics; 'Your face is pasty, cause you've gone and got so wasted..' We also did some close ups of the performers faces to show the real emotions of the characters. This was quick and easy to do and very effective as it could be used anywhere in the video.
Finally, we decided to develop on the stop motion used within our video. Due to the fact that the lego people we not used in our video, we thought it'd be a good idea to use more stop motion but make it more easy for ourselves and in fitting with the tune of the song. We therefore decided that seeing as using lettering or words is the most easiest and effective way of using stop motion, it would be best if we stuck with this. In doing this we thought it would be nice to play around with the lyrics in a certain verse; this verse being verse 2 where she mentions lemons. We thought it would be a nice touch to the video.
At first we thought it would be simple if we were to just cut up the lemon in wedges and have them appear on a plate wedge by wedge, creating a pattern of some sort but we thought it would be much more effective to have the lemon written on or carved into with the word 'bitter' on it to relate to the song.

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