Comments on the First Draft

I believe that for a first draft the music video was successful. We managed to experiment with the lighting and see what we can achieve using the lighting provided and the lighting that’s already in place. Furthermore the actors could get used to the performance and the song itself. What came to mind when watching the first draft was that the shots that we used were too long and more editing was required in order to make the song look faster pace in addition to making it look more entertaining for the audience. Additionally there was not enough narrative present at all, this was the main concert when creating the first draft, and this was due to the fact that there was not enough narrative footage in the first place due to the weather conditions and the equipment running out of battery during the recording. This resulted in us having to reschedule for another day and only hope for the weather to be how we want it. The narrative idea itself was possible to achieve, but in the end we decided to change it due to it being too problematic to record and we had to think of another narrative that would be possible for us to record without a fail and dependency on the weather conditions. Over all in the first draft the only thing that we thought was done to a good standard was the performance by the lead singer and the base player. However, the drummer had to either improve on the performance or be replaced due to him not keeping up to the beat thus ruining the feel of the song as the audience would focus on the drummers’ faults rather than the actual song. In order to improve it was decided to change the lighting by making it brighter especially on the lead singer and certainly adding more narrative to the music video. Once these changes will be made it will certainly improve the quality of the music video and make it more entertaining for the target audience.