PRACTISING STOP ANIMATION

This is just a short video of our stop animation practises, so far we are thinking of using the flowers twisting around (possibly after the sad part of the song, reflecting the abuse, on the beat just before Happiness... another one we might use is the petals, either coming off the flower or going round in a circle at the beginning of the song, on the beat leading up to Happiness hit her...

EDITING - FIRST DRAFT ALMOST COMPLETE

Here is our first draft so far, we have edited up to about 2 minutes in, and then 40 seconds from the end. Once we have completed editing the middle 30 or so seconds we will be ready for our audience feedback.

EDITING 4-2-11

During an editing session we discovered that some of our footage had been changed and transferred into our final edit, after sorting this out we discovered that our two locations might be seen as boring for the audience and that we should consider using a third location, maybe a studio. However, if we used this new location we want to be experimental with the lighting as our video is generally quite controversial in comparison to standard music videos, we are worried that a studio location will adhere to stereotypes of other genres and thereby change the feel of our music video.

PLANNING - NEW LOCATION?

After editing some of our footage we were concerned that the audience might not understand the narrative of our video and were considering adding another location for a clear performance side of the video, e.g. a studio. Here is a small plan we came up with during a group discussion earlier today!

LOST FOOTAGE!

After a problem with one of our macs, we lost a lot of the footage we had obtained. This included the running shots, rain scenes and all footage from the rooftops, however we downloaded our old edits from YouTube and managed to retrieve some of our footage although the quality is very low. we decided to edit the high quality footage in the woods and upload it with the low quality footage from YouTube in high definition, as this would allow us to make a comparison of the two.