Firstly we decided to work on masking the plug during the "memory/piano" scene.
Luckily, we had two options:
- On Wednesday, Jahmal & Ali worked on masking out the white background, so it gave the appearance of the piano being outside. This was a really good idea, and considering they didn't have long to do it, the outcome was surprisingly good.
2. On Friday, Jahmal & I worked out an easier way of keeping the faded background, that everyone commented on with positive feedback, by copying the layer 2 or 3 times, cropping it down and laying them up over the plug, so that it disappeared.
Overall, we decided to go with the second option because it was much more effective than the option 1. We managed to make the plug socket fade, and it was so much less noticeable. At the same time I was really gutted about not using the option 1 because all the white was gone, but at the same time it looked a little bit silly with the backgrounds we'd chosen to use, and some of the performer was actually faded as well.
When Pete watched it the other day he mentioned to us a few shots that were held for too long. This was really helpful for us because we didn't realise until we sat down with Pete. We decided to start with the original shot, then into a close up of the stings being strummed and then into a close up of the chords being played. This works a lot better now, and gives it an authenticity.
Pete also mentioned a long clip during the outfit changing scene - the clapping one towards the end. He said that we'd built up so much fast, energy that the clapping shot brings it down. So we decided to just use quick shots from all the outfits so that on the claps I change outfits/ places still.
Steve helped us a lot with the actually track. We'd listened to the song so much that we hadn't noticed that the version we had (mp3) had a horrible popping sound, which was really uncomfortable for the viewer, and would sound disgusting at the picture house; so Steve gave us the avi version which was a lot cleaner! He also said about some of out shots during the instrumental near the final part of the song, so removed the pebble cutaways and the video looks a lot better now!
Nick mentioned going through the whole of the "outfit" segment and masking out the plug socket. This was a good idea, but in the end we didn't have enough time to do it because of the creeping deadline, which is actually really annoying and upsetting.
He also said about the whole mise-en-scene in that part. We couldn't do anything about it, purely because that was the only place we could film; we literally had under an hour to film, and we had strict orders not to touch/ move ANYTHING. If the weather hadn't of been so shocking then we could've filmed outside, but then again if this song is suppose to be uplifting there's no way anyone would want to watch someone singing in the grey! For example, the colours in our test footage are awful!
At the end of the day I'm so proud of what our group accomplished. We really came together to make something that I would be happy to show anyone.
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