FOURTEEN – YOUR FAULT

Now after hours of watching our raw footage for the music video I’ve come across some lack-luster parts in both acting and Abby’s performance. In some areas she shines, seemingly infatuated with this Elvis hair guy, but then there are the in between moments, where she stares at the camera wrong, or just looks bored and unenthusiastic. It’s concerning how familiar I am now with not just her face, but the faces of all the cast and crew that make appearances in our rushes.

Now this blog is a reflection on the fact that we seem to be the only group going with the straight narrative route for their music video. Earlier on Jac and Elle’s group had mentioned they too were going to have a semi narrative going on in the background of their video, with a big reveal at the end that it was all in his head or something like that. I was happy to know that my group wasn’t alone, but alas after seeing the rough cuts today I believe that we are now well and truly alone.

So more on the rough cut feedback today. Well we learnt that it’s not exactly hard to make a story, it’s just hard to make a story make sense in less than 4 minutes with no dialogue and shotty acting. Our group seemed to be the most put together, but it didn’t mean we were done. We walked away from today with the most concerning advice, we needed to cut out a characters section, or at least cover it up. The character was Cinderella, and the reasoning behind it was that her shots just didn’t fit well with the rest of the story. Her scenes just weren’t shot well, and looking back to shoot day I realised that yeah her scenery wasn’t great and her acting was too exagerated. Some of it is my fault for telling Alaine to over act and be comedic, but another aspect could have been Jordan’s cinematography and composition of the shot. I’m not going to blame anyone though, what’s done is done, and with 2 weeks left to hand this bad boy in we can’t look back and regret. We can only move forward and think of ways to fix it.

That’s what I realise I will get out of this experience at least. How to cover you ass if something doesn’t turn out the way you expected it. I’m not going to be a negative nancy, and instead I will continue on with the project and shift things around like Rohan suggested. We can pull through this situation and we can sure as hell make a badass music video.

So speaking of things that don’t turn out how you expected it, I’ve linked below Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” music video because let’s all be honest and admit that when the video starts out you don’t think of how she will turn into a crazed psychopath hoping to kill her boyfriend. It’s also got a lovely location, and a whole bunch of great editing points that I’ve chosen to be inspired (very) loosely by.