Group Meeting

Since finishing filming, we've met up as a group on several occasions to see what progress we are making and identify what we should all be doing. Jamie was efficiently getting on with editing, and coming to each one of us to show what progress he had made. We decided to get back into contact with the band and look to have them coming into school to film the interviews sometime within the next two weeks.

While looking at the start of the edited music video, i've suggested ideas on how to improve the current style its edited in, however we're looking to just finish a rough one soon and then identify soe key areas of improvement through each of our individual preferences and also through others in our media class and around the school. This will give us an idea as to whether the music video is edited together efficiently, whether it cuts to the beat and finally whether it captures the audiences attention.

Altogether we have more than enough footage to fill the music video, and we finally transferred the footage from the tape of one camera onto the computer which features the live footage of the band performing their own gig. However it has been said that music videos that have a narrative in them are generally better than those without because it captures the audience's attention and doesnt let them lose interest. During my researching into music videos within the rock genre, I did find it very difficult to find modern music videos that didnt have the narrative within them. It could be an idea that after making a rough cut final music video, we could see what response people have to it and think about whether or not it's worth filming a narrative for.

In the meantime, Kerrin, Paige and I are all helping to assist Jamie on editing the music video at the same time as i'm working with Paige on the DVD extras. Paige is the producer of the extra's, and i've decided to help edit the behind the scenes with the help from Paige's direction. However many of the behind the scenes do contain some interviews with the band, so there is only so much of this I can do without the interviews.