Me and a friends facebook discussion abnout my work

do you think it is worth re doing the drum shot at a nicer angle and with slightly more realistic playing?

Harry O'Callaghan: yeah, maybe a shot similar to the one you had and an HD close up of the tips hitting the skin
btw i love the bit when the head comes out of the grains i also when you make it go all red like 2/3 in i think you should keep it for the lighter shots?

Jack Sauverin: yeaboy that is the best shot. have you noticed where it flicks to a pic of my bro in the same pose as the head?

Harry O'Callaghan: HAHA! no?! defo searching it for that now :P

Jack Sauverin: the red shots thougharent post producion it was using a red light so i would mean redoingthe shot and some cant redone as it was a one off thing, like burning shit or the blood and it is the last frame of the head coming from grain stop motin sequence

Harry O'Callaghan: AH I SAW IT. its awesome.
you could add that red in post though?

Jack Sauverin: yea i could but not in shitty movie maker. and i dont want to re make the whole thing in another program but i could take the clips i wanted red and redify them in a program save tem and then put them into my moviemaker file.
Harry O'Callaghan: could export the whole finished thing then jsut select where you wanted red. i think you can do that in the school whats it called. i cant remember.

Jack Sauverin: really i thought it might not be able to do that ad it would be saved as a continuous clip rather than scenes. but i suppose i can cut it up it might just be tricky. i could also reshoot some of the slightly out of focus shots and a few where you can see my shadow
another thing movie maker wouldnt let me do is put any effects on the pictures so they are all too bright. and i couldnt be arsed to photoshop everysingle one. ug i thought i was finished but i realised i have loads more to do. but i actually find it fun so i dont mind

Two working progress cuts of my media.

Editing

One thing i had to consider was, where to put the climax of my video. The lyric that corresponded to the shot was too early in the video. So i had to put it in later though it didn't fit i think it was necessary for the video to have an interesting pace. Also the final couple of minutes drag on but this is due to the length of the song. I used windows moviemaker as the school laptops sucked. This meant i couldn't add effects to the pictures so they don't really keep with the mise en scene of my piece. I also couldn't add the red effect i achieved using a red light in post production, as i wanted more shots to have it.

Another issue was effects. i really like the 'old film' grainy flickery effect on some shots and not others. it has been very difficult to choose whether to go all effect free, all grainy or a mix. I settled on a mix, removing the effect on the shots which i thought looked better without. Those were the flame and blood shots as those shots were vivid and the grain dulled the colour and the sharpness of the focus. I don't think the grainy/non-grainy differences between shots was noticable. but the gainy shots gave the piece a olde worlde feel which was my aim, and the non grainy shots gave the piece added visual appeal.