Music Video Evaluation

Music Video Evaluation

Evaluation Video

Original Album cover ideas

Here are some original ideas for the album cover.

Editing Sessions

It's finished!!!

We finally finished editing the video after a lot of hours, a lot of concentration and a lot of effects!

We're both really pleased with the outcome though and it was definitely worth the hard work!

Editing Sessions

The editing is coming along really well, we've only got about 30 seconds left to go but it's taking quite a few hours sitting in the editing suite. I think at one point we have something like 20 shots in the space of 2 seconds! There's lots of cutting up bits of clip and speeding them up to ridiculous speeds but it looks good though. Hopefully we can get it finished in the next week or so!

Peer Feedback

We showed the rough cut to some people in our class. Their responses were:

"I think it looks really good so far. I love how it's so fast and in your face, you just need to make sure you keep that up for the rest of the video. Also maybe try to make more of a contrast between the narrative shots and the performance shots, it will emphasise them a lot more."

This is very useful feedback and we will definitely take on board what they have said.

Roughcut Export

We've exported a rough cut of what we have so far and posted it onto youtube, asking people to comment on it. This will be useful as audience research and hopefully we will get some positive and constructive comments.

Capture and Log sheets

We've just spent a few hours in the editing suite just capturing and logging all our shots into Final Cut Pro. It was a very long and boring process but at least we can start putting together the video now!

Narrative Shoot

We've just finished shooting the narrative parts of the video. It went fairly well although the natural light dropped quite quickly and as we were shooting in a park we had no way of plugging in any lights. We managed to pick locations that were fairly well lit by street lamps though so hopefully we managed to record some usable footage.

Images From Shootings

Emam and Stephen working with Leigh (Lead Singer)














Emam with Leigh and Charles setting up kit (A friend who helped out)

The Panasonic Camera on the Manfrotto tripod, all set up and good to go

Stephen and Charles getting ready to rock out!

Emam struggling with the camera =P

Garden Shoot

We've finished another batch of filming, this time in Emam's friends garden. It was a really good location, very dark and lots of tree's and bushes. It looked really creepy. It was harder this time as we couldn't make much noise and it was outside. This meant lighting and the weather all had to be considered. We managed to light the garden up enough to see everyone clearly though so it wasn't too bad. We also hired a strobe light which was insane. We only managed to do two full takes of the song though as the band were getting quite sick after 10 minutes of playing with a 1000w strobe light flashing at them! The takes looked really good though and will definitely be used in the final video.

First Shoot

We've just finished our first film shoot, we filmed the band playing in the studio for about 4 hours and managed to recorded just over an hour of footage. It was all very exciting seeing the band play and getting some cool shots, even if we were having our ears battered by the P.A. system. We filmed three whole takes of the band together, three of each band member and two hand held takes. We really liked the hand held ones as there are some really interesting bits in them. After a long day in a hot, loud and cramped room it's good to see some real progress towards our music video.

Storyboard

Final Script

After discussing some more and thinking realistically about our capabilities and the practicalities of various things we have a revised final script.
Script Final

Original Script

Having read the lyrics and discussing various ideas for our music video we have come up with a first draft script.

Original Script

Link To Band's Music

www.myspace.com/forsakensouls

Forsaken Souls MP3 (Free Streaming Music)

Contains the songs 'The Darkest Love' and 'Before You Know It', live photographic images of the band and many other band-related stuff =P

http://www.facebook.com/forsakensouls#/pages/Forsaken-Souls/91562714377

A not yet launched, unofficial facbook site of the band. Contains events information and a few pictures

Lyrics and Structure

The Darkest Love - Forsaken Souls

Verse 1

Nothing will ever change the way
The way I'll always hate you
You tricked my heart with your sickened mind
I was there for you
You tricked my heart
But never again will I let you win

Verse 2
Nothing will ever change what you are
Or what you will become of
The darkest love
It shadows your whole life
The darkest love
Your tears are all but the poision
You tricked my heart with your sickened mind
I was there for you
You tricked my heart
But never again will I let you win

Chorus 1
From your heart
Comes the darkest love
The love that always
Leaves you feeling hate
The love that always
Leaves you feeling (Haaaaaaaate!)

Bridge
(Oh!)

Chorus 2
From your heart
Comes the darkest love
The love that always
Leaves you feeling hate
The love that always
Leaves you feeling (Haaaaaaaate!)

Interviews and Analysis

Here are our interviews and analysis.

Interview 1 - Emam
Interview 2 - Emam
Interview 3 - Stephen
Interview 4 - Stephen
Interview Analysis

Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire Results

Music Video Questionnaire

Here is the music video questionnaire we asked people to complete.
Music Video Questionnaire