[PRODUCTION] - Rough Cut 1

Rough Cut 1 - 21/11/2014

Throughout our blog posts it's pretty clear that we did not get up to a good start. We were falling behind and lacking motivation. However, Nahida worked hard and fast to produce a messy rough cut that attempted to portray what we wanted with the guidance of Chenny and Nicole. This has truly motivated me (Nahida) to work my magic on the editing part of the production to pull together our music video to a very high professional standard. We had Louisa look through what I was able to get together and provide me with feedback which I really could work with and that has been able to give me a clearer vision for the final product as well as require the group to question some aspects of the video. 

Feedback: 

- As the singing started in the video we kept the artist anonymous which is what we wanted to do however there was shots before the 'ohh' where we had shots of the artists face so it was unclear. 

- There isn't a clear structure between the verse and chorus of the song as we had the first verse and chorus with the white room shots and then the second verse with outside shots. We need to come up with a clear structure so we can either:

• Have inside shots for the verse and they were very strong and outside shots for the chorus 
• Have inside shots of the white room for the first verse and the black room for the second verse and then the chorus could be the projection shots that blends the black and white 

THEY ARE BOTH GREAT IDEAS AND SO WE HAVE A DILEMMA.

- About a minute into the video there was a blacked out flash with the sound of the click which did not happen beforehand. - Unfortunately I did not add an edit to it but it just sort of happened but Louisa had told me to add it to the other clicks from before. 

- Louisa also gave another tip. The shots with Nicole near the lamp post worked well and she suggested we also add that specific sequence in reverse. 

We clearly still have a lot of work to do.