First full draft



This is my first full draft of my music video. I feel that the use of the cross dissolve edits between the shots in colour and the shots in black and white safely distinguishes between the past and the present. It portrays these shots as memories or 'flashblacks' and I feel that it represents these memories as what's going through Jordan's head at the time of when he is looking after Leah in the video. My stronger shots are the scenes where Leah visits the doctors, the couple are in the cafe and in the bathroom. This is because the framing is much stronger, the lighting has made the scene much clearer and more in focus.

Stronger shot

My most recent shots where they are laid in bed or watching TV have the issue of being quite dark so I think I am going to re-shoot some of these where necessary. I also need to work on my framing since in some shots Jordan's head has been cut off by the camera, I could solve this problem by using a taller tripod when I do a re-shoot and when I am setting up the camera, I should double check that both characters are both in shot. When I re-shoot some of the shots inside the house,  I should also use brighter lighting to reduce the amount of camera noise and improve the quality of my shots. A big issue with the quality of my video is that I have not uploaded it in HD initially as it is only a first draft and it would take a lot of time to do so just for this purpose. Consequently, this has made some of the footage appear softer than it should be. In the future when I upload the final edit I will upload it in HD which will drastically improve the quality of my overall video.



Weaker shot - low lighting

This is an example of a shot which is much weaker than the others. Although the framing is good, the lighting is quite low which had made the shot appear quite dark. Therefore, as I have previously stated I should consider re-shooting the sequence where the couple are having an argument. However, I am worried that the argument sequence may make the narrative unclear. I could improve this by either adding dialogue accompanied by a black screen at the beginning to make it more clear to the audience as to what it is they are arguing about.