Rough cut analysis

Junction Promo B rough from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is the rough cut of the promo video produced by Me, Loz and Ash. Although we have made music videos and short films before, this was our first attempt at a promo video. We decided to use the track 'Till Death Let us Dance' by Operation FM, one of the bands that played the fiver we filmed. We decided to play on the live aspect as much as possible for our video, there for we started the video like a live performance video with the live track and edited the footage of Operation FM playing live for the first verse. after that we faded the live track into the recorded one ( we didn't have the full live track to use). after the fade to the recorded track we decided cut into a montage of bands playing and the crowd partying whilst over the top of the footage we put questions asking the viewer different things to make them relate and stay interested. After the montage, at 1:10 we cut to interviews with Operation Fm, Boiling Point and Franko with a flash of stage lights to a fade out to finnish. This is only the rough cut and needs more work because the audio levels are fairly poor and it needs to be cut much quicker. Also, although there are questions to try and interest the viewer, there is very little information other than a very quick scrolling info track which is un-effective and illegible. As far as my projects go i feel this is one of my weakest so far and i am fairly un-impressed with it. There are strong points like the middle montage section and i like the cutting of the start when Sam (singer of Operation Fm) jumps from the drum risers. But all in all it isn't a strong peice of work and i fully expect to get a fair amount of negative feedback from the Bournemouth students.