I wanted the audience to focus more on the narrative rather than the musicians and instruments so I spent much more time filming the couple than the band members. The used of transitions used throughout also work to my benefit, the black and white transitions are meant to represent the memories the boyfriend has whilst the colour shots represent the present time and the bad memories he has whilst they were breaking up. Though this video is not really meant to be 'romantic', I used a 'Romantic Filter' on a couple of memory shots and once shot where it shows the girlfriend to show that he still loves her. This proved popular with feedback, a friend outside school said that the black and white helped to seperate the shots effectivly without drawing the attention of the viewer too much.
Whilst experimenting with different effects, I found out that I could create a shot within shot effect, I haven't seen this type of effect used in professional videos but I felt it added a unique touch. The smaller shots in the corner are the shots that would follow after the drum beat, again, I used the black and white effect to represent to good memories and regular colour to represent the bad memories.
Incorporating Goodwins Six points was rather easy but not all the points occurred in the final product. The point that I used most was point about there being a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting), this was easy to do and is apparent through the narrative of the story. However at the end of the video, the girlfriend comes back to the girlfriend even though the song shows no indication that she comes back at all, I felt this would be an effective ending to my video that leaves the audience wondering if they get back together or not. Over the shoulder shots show the expressions they're feeling and shows that the emotions felt are completely different.
After drawing out my story board, I found that I was making a lot of changes in the final product of my video. Orginally, I was going have Sam playing guitar for the first 12 seconds, but after testing this out, I found that watching a guitar playing for 12 seconds became a little tedious so I decided to have a memory shot of Craig and Victoria having fun together. I'm glad I did this instead because it fit with next scene with Victoria walking away from Craig. I did eventually use the guitar shot but again, the issue of watching the same thing for a long time got boring so to break up the shot more, I flipped the shots to make a pattern of mirriored and normal.
However, due to a technical fault in iMovie 9, background audio from other shots are replaying in the beginning of my video. After researching the problem on a forum, I discovered that iMovie has a bug, if you slow down/speed up shots then background noise will play over the music, the audio glitch appears only in the exported movie, but is not evident in preview. There is a way to fix it but that would include re-editing the shots. But, as the band I filmed aren't actually singing my chosen song, it would be far too difficult and time consuming.
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