Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Pretender Final Cut

This is the final cut of our music video, we have made many changes from the first time we had been given feedback from the screenings. The video used to be in colour, which when then later changed into black and white. We also added a lot of close-ups into the video to make it seem more fast paced as we wanted to create a sense of panic and danger throughout the video.

Final Cut Development

This is a screenshot of the final cut development we were doing. Here we have all the different clips inputted into the timeline along with the music track at the bottom.

The Pretender Draft 9

The Pretender Draft 8

Draft 7 Feedback

The Pretender Music Video Draft 7

Here is our newest version of our music video. We decided that we wanted to remove the blank spaces at the end of the video and add some footage of the band playing, we did this as we thought it looked like the blank spaces were errors in the video. We also want to change some of the video slightly by fixing the sync of the singing at the end as it is a little off. We also want to fix the sync with the clapping and make it so the shot of the bridge at the end isn't as long as it is.

Editing

Today we was editing the video and trying to make small improvements by adding all of the new close-ups that we had. We found specific places that could make the cuts seem more fast-paced by allowing it to cut to different shots. There still needs to be some improvements made to the cut as you can see there are some places where the close-ups need to be moved to be in time with the music more. There also needs to be some other changes towards the end of the music to make it seem smoother, we are still experimenting whether we want the blank spaces to be blinks or not.

The Pretender Music Video Draft 6

This is the sixth draft of the music video, we decided to add all of our close-ups that we had that we never used so that we could have more band parts to fit in with the narrative. We wanted to make the video more balanced, to do this adding the close-ups helped make it more balanced.

The Pretender Music Video Draft 5

This is the fifth draft of the music video, here we made some more changes in cutting the video to make it seem more faster and smoother. We wanted the music video to become more clear in the narrative and we also want to fit in enough band parts. We still need to balance it out more so that the video is more clear and smoother.

The Pretender Music Video Draft 4

This is the fourth draft of the music video, here we have edited the clips that we filmed together. We went out and filmed some more narrative parts and completely reshot all of our band performance again, we adjusted to see if it was again. We still need to go and film our band parts again, because we need a lot more specific shot.

The pretender Music Video Draft 3

This is the third draft of the music video, here we have edited the clips that we filmed together. We went out and filmed some more narrative parts and added more of our band parts. We still need to go and film our band parts again, because we need a lot more specific shot. We also turned the music video into black and white as we thought it worked well with the theme of our video and the genre. It also links well with our posters and digipaks.

Second Draft Feedback Sheet

These are the feedback sheets from our class that we pitched to about our first music video draft. There are mix views about what people like throughout the pitch. People liked the positioning of the camera shots in the video, the narrative, performance. lip synching and the band shots. The parts that they want us to develop are we need to learn how to play the guitar, the zooming shot of the mask's eye needs to be improved and our shots are too long and the need to be shortened. 

Second Music Video Draft

This is the second draft of the music video, here we have edited the clips that we filmed together. We went out and filmed a narrative part and our band part some more as we thought that it would need an improvement as we only had one camera angle from it.