Group Reflection

We have filmed ourselves as a group answering the same questions that we asked our interviewees during their interviews. The reason we chose to do this was because we wanted to show our overall reflection (as a group and as individuals) on all of the aspects of the project and what we thought of it.

Note: One member of our group (Rita) was not in on the day we filmed the following video due to illness and therefore we thought it best that she should add her reflection(s) in text form above the video rather than us having to re-take and edit the whole video again.

Question One: What did you think of the camerawork?

I thought the camera work was good but could have been developed if we had more time. The scenes with them sat on the sofa was a bit shaky due to the camera positioning. There were also some other scenes that also had shaky movements such as the scene with the sick on the shoes, that was obviously handheld but like I said before, if more time was provided we would have been able to improve the video better. The scene with the windup toy was interpreted very well, as the process of it being out of focus at first, then gradually coming into focus worked perfectly. All of the camera work was done to the best of our ability.

Question Two: What did you think of the editing?

The editing to me worked well but would of worked better if we were more focused on the editing towards the beginning. The cuts used in our video were too long and many of them were too fast., there was a scene of her looking through some bars which stayed on for far too long, this was caused by lack of variation shots. The green screen was much harder to edit then we thought it was going to be whilst filming. The transactions were okay as they were flowing at normal music video pace. The lip syncing was also stressful at some points, most of the stop motion used was excellent especially the stop motion of the teddies moving away from each other towards the ending of the video. On the other hand the scrabble stop motion of ‘foundations’ was too fast.

Question Three: What aspects of the video do you think we could have done better?

More stop motion should have been included instead of loads of filming, this would have improved the video greatly. I think if more time was provided then editing would have been of a much better standard. Some of the shots would have been re-done and we would have chosen to use the green screen less as it would have been less hassle. The main thing we all agreed on that would of defiantly been changed was the choice of song, a more up tempo song would have been possibly easier to edit.

Question Four: What do you think of the ideas we used in the video?

The ideas we used in the video were very original as we used elements of the real video and re-created them in our own way. One of the main ideas we came u with was the lemons scene, but unfortunately it did not get represented the way we wanted it to. We had some really creative ideas but also had to change location, the windup toy idea was the best portrayed idea so far.

Question Five: Overall, did you like the video?

Overall enjoyed the video, as all our hard work and effort has gone into it. Obviously there were many aspects of the video that we wish we could have changed, but the only thing we can do now is be happy with the finishing product that we got. We also have established that we had a limited period of time and some of that time went to waste as in the beginning we failed to communicate with each other, towards the end it got better and we finished the video.