Rough Cut 2

Feedback:

1-

"Lovely focus pull"

"Love the removal of the jump cuts, it's much better!"

"Get rid of the talking in the audio at the start"

"Lovely birds eye view on the bed"

"Is the table wonky in the dinner clips?"

"Lovely lyric to visual links with the whiskey"


2-

"Still need to remove the dark performance shot"

"Not too sure on the vignette effect"

"Nice framing"

"Good syncing work"


3-

"I like the effect with the black faded corners - this should be used in all interior shots"

"The reflection of the camera man is still visible"

"Well timed cuts"

"Absolutely fantastic focus pull"

"I like the shot where the male character lip syncs"


4-

"Good narrative and variety of shots"

"Some of the lip syncing is out, and the guitar playing is slightly out of sync"


5-

"Nice editing"

"Good song choice"

"The editing of shots could be a little quicker"

"The actor and the actress fit the song and the moods of the song"

"The lip syncing is good"

"The guitar goes a long well"

"Really good focus pull"

"Locations are good"

"Lighting in a few shots not brilliant"

"Reflection of the cameraman slightly visible"


6-

"The effect looks good"

"Doesn't look too different from rough cut 1"

"Stairs shot looks out of place"

"Cut the final shot so that you cannot see the artist smile"


7-

"Good focus pull"

"Doesn't look too different from rough cut 1"

"Some chords are not in the same time as the sound"


8-

"Effect looks good"

"Opening the letter takes too long"

"The stair shot doesn't fit the rest"

"Not much different from rough cut 1"

"Guitar is wrong in places"

"Smile at the end doesn't suit"


9-

"Love the new effects on the narrative clips"

"Possibly put the artist in a boat?..."


10-

"Good effect on the edges of the screen"

"Great focus pull"

"Good choice of whiskey"

"Perhaps have slightly shorter shot"


11-

"I like the black vignette"

"Put ashes in the letter?..."


12-

"The vignette looks good on story line shots"

"Good variety of shots"

"I'm not a fan of the straight on shots of the guitar"

"Pan up of Joe is a bit shaky, don't think it flows with the rest of the footage"

"Don't like the bit when Joe says the lyrics"

"The vignette is missing on the first few shots of Amy sitting on the sofa?"


13-

"I'm not sure about the effect round the edge of shots"

"The lip syncing is good"

"Nice variety of shots"

"The shot is a little bit wonky in the dinning room"




How We Will Improve:

The most common suggested things that need to be improved:

-Some of the shots do not have great lighting and are a little dark
-The guitar chords don't always match the sound (not in sync)
-The vignette is missing in some shots
-Some shots are too long

Since these points came up more than once, we will make them our priority.

"Some of the shots do not have great lighting and are a little dark".
To fix this we will see if we have any other shots which can replace these ones. If we do not then we will attempt to lighten the shot with editing tools. As a final resort we will reshoot any shots that need better lighting.

"The guitar chords don't always match the sound (not in sync)".
Our first way to approach this issue is to try and sync it up better in the editing software, if this is not possible then we will reshoot the necessary shots ensuring we get the chords spot on.

"The vignette is missing in some shots".
Something we noticed from our feedback is that a couple of people weren't too sure or keen on the effect, and so this will affect our decision to either carry on adding the effect to all clips, or scrap it completely and try out different effects and colour corrections. Unfortunately it seems like the amount of people that did like the effect is evenly split with those that don't.

"Some shots are too long".
This is an easy fix as all we have to do is shorten a few clips that seem too long. Our feedback tells us that the shot of the female character opening the letter is one of the clips which will need cutting.