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Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want to Have Fun Rough Cut Feedback

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  1. 1. Rough Cut Feedback Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  2. 2. ROUGH CUT After uploading the Rough Cut of our music video, we were interested in the feedback that we wanted to receive. We wanted to upload a Rough Cut of our music video in order to show our development throughout the entire process of making our video. We felt this was necessary as we felt that the Rough Cut that we produced showed promise, yet we did want to receive feedback in order to improve certain aspects of the video, to make sure that we could directly appeal to our target audience.
  3. 3. LIP SYNC
  4. 4. We asked our teachers what they thought of the initial draft ofthe video and we received a very positive response. However, they alerted us to some issues that should be changed before we finished the product. Firstly, they told us that the lip syncing did not match exactly in some places. This would obviously not suffice, as every other professional music video we watched was in perfect sync with the lyrics of the song playing over the action. We discovered that this was because we edited certain parts of the video at different times, which made the previous edited clips come out of sync. For instance, we would edit the latter half of the video before the first, meaning that the previously edited clips were jolted out of time. Therefore, we went back and tried to change the duration of clips in order to correctly match the lip syncing to the song.
  5. 5. LONG SHOTS
  6. 6. Another issue we were told was that some of the clips were too long.This disrupted the pace of the song as the action on screen did not match the fast pace of the song. Specifically, when our main character walks up the stairs towards the station. Our teachers felt that this scene was relatively boring, as no other action was taking place and our main actor was not actually smiling through the duration of the shot, making the Fun atmosphere we were trying to create diminish slightly. Therefore, we deleted an entire shot from the station scene to make the action flow more smoothly. This feedback alerted us to the fact that we had short, extra footage that we could use, for instance, a short two second clip of our main actor dancing.
  7. 7. CLUB SCENES
  8. 8. We added the Club Scenes at the end of the initial video as wewanted to show a progression throughout the day. For instance, she would start out by going to London for a morning with her first friend, then progress to an afternoon Ski activity with her second friend, when finally attending a club with a group in the evening. However, after watching professional music videos, we found that the scenes were usually staggered, meaning that there were many jump cuts in between the main action. The way that the club scenes are presented in the Rough Cut were one after the other, taking up approximately 10 seconds of the entire video. Each shot was relatively similar, and it broke away from the fast action we saw previously. Therefore, we decided to separate the shots, adding parts of the white background into break the club scenes up. We felt that this left our audience less confused, and more entertained.
  9. 9. TITLE SHOT
  10. 10. The most crucial mistake however, was that we had misspelt theartists name at the beginning of our video. Spelling "Cydni" rather than "Cyndi". Obviously, this was a unintentional error which we had made in our haste to complete the final video in the time limit. Not only was this a crucial part of the video to get wrong, it was also an extremely embarrassing mistake! However, as we had uploaded a Rough Cut, we were able to quicklyalter our error in time for the final video. This is a significant example as to how helpful a Rough Cut can be when one is in the process of creating a media product. Had we not noticed this mistake, we would have ruined the entire feel to the video from the outset, as our audiences would take our video as a joke, and believe that we were not taking the project seriously enough.
  11. 11. EVALUATION After making these vital changes, we noticed that we were too shortof footage. Therefore, we decided to trim the song by 10 seconds. Although this was something we wished we could have avoided, we wanted our video to be of the best possible standard which meant cutting out certain clips and shortening those already existing. We found out that we could easily fade the song out a little earlier than planned as we wanted our final video to be exciting and entertaining, as supposed to our audiences being bored with the action because the clips were too long.