Screenshots

1)Shows the story may continue....?

















2) Ending of the video















3) Shows the complexity and the most full shot, making it the best for the style













4) Shows the dustball shot
















5) Shows the speech bubbles on the wrong side but wouldn't work if it was













6)Shows the dustball moving before everyone has left the shot














7) Shows the shot which is too fast















8) Shows the effect of th cantered angle














9) Shows quality of transitions and the smaller cropped shots not working in the transitions














10) The entrance shot, shows cover















11) The best shot, we look good!! But also shows how breaking up the split screens has an effect













12) The complexity of the time line.

Velvet Revolver!!!!!!!! Come on Come In

One of the music videos we actually found just before the filming process was a video by American rock band ‘Velvet Revolver’ and there song ‘Come On, Come In’, which was released as the recently formed bands fifth single, after all of them had formed after the end of there previously successful bands, such as Guns N Roses and the Stone Temple Pilots. The song was released on the soundtrack to the movie The Fantastic Four, which was a Marvel comic book before the film was released, and the video takes most of it’s inspiration from the comic book format. The video is here on YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=dy_Wl6vOFvg. Though we found it after we had the idea, it does have features which show similarities to the ideas we already had. The first sign of the comic book style is after the track out of the camera from the amplifier. Obviously the video had a higher budget than ours, but the backgrounds are all CGI, and give it a real feel of cartoon, as well as drawing attention to the performers. The other idea is the framing, like in a comic book, which you can see it zoom out to in the opening scene here as Slash plays the opening riff. One of the main parts of the video I really like but don’t think we will be able to achieve with ours in the time constraints is the feeling that the camera is panning across a comic page instead of just switching to static shots, like it shows straight after the first scene. The video is mainly performance based as it fits in with this genre and also allows shots of the movie to be incorporated without being as complex as if there was another story. As scene at 0:28, the camera is never still very often and is always tracking which gives a good effect, though with are video the characters move where as they don’t here, so it wouldn’t have the same effect. The idea of more than one shot on screen at the same time as at 0:31 is an idea we immediately thought of, and here it uses pictures rather than videos, drawing the eye to the moving screen. Another idea we wanted to use is shown to an extent at 0:47, where the lead singer Scott Weiland is turned into a Pop Art style video at the right of the screen, we didn’t want Pop Art, but it has the same effect. I think another good point from the video is the constant feeling that there always something happening and keeping it interesting as there are lots of cuts and also lots of panning across from on frame to another.

Other class feedback

Genre - Indie is the Genre
Apart from the performance it does fit with the style
the narrative doesn't fit
good video still

Relationships
Guitar parts are very effective

Camerawork
Close up guitar and vocal shots were good
shots of eyes and shoes also effective in split screen

Editing
blur x
comicbook
polerization x posterization
high saturation and contrast
slide transitions work well with the style
Text overlay makes it work with the comicbook style
Mirror images, both characters on at the same time

Mise en Scene
Costumes work well as do the instruments
Using the school works well as you don't stay in the same place to long
Library setting good place to close book
Lots of closeups so background is not too noticeable

Special Effect
Book idea good
Comic strip different different but effective
color saturation is so great
Great performance
Man gives really good performance
Split screen brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Analysis

Love Killer

Visuals - The video uses the same style as our video by using split screens. though to a different effect. Whereas ours has a reason a reasons for using the split screens as comic style and too convey a story, theres doesn't have a reason. They also have sometimes just put random white lines over it, and made the different parts jump around which is more scruffy.
Similarly both of are transitions are poor. Ours sometimes is different. where as theres leaves blank spaces and isn't cut cleanly enough so some shots before come through where they shouldn't

Lip sync - We like to think that are lip sync is very good, most of the time though mainly through YouTubes fault when its not, it looks very good, especially in the first singing example. Theres is more unbelievable, and it doesn't come across as he's singing it, due to a worse sync.

Feedback

Genre
It takes the conventions of comic books and pop art and makes them visual, effects are typical of lichtenstien. Indie genre. comic is quite typical- performance, clothing are conventional of the indie genre, intertextual, comics animation pop art etc

Relationships
The 1,1,1 makes 3 very effective, really like it overall

Camerawork

Lots of different shots, angles, really cleverly worked out, cartoon shots worked really well, splits screen worked really well. Lots of good close ups on Adams mouth, looked wicked. Speerch bubbles really worked with the camera work, very good

Editing

Editing i that it was well edited, writing to fast, like the use of screens in one, a bit too much empty space. Transitions a bit odd

Mise en scene
Fairly good, guitar and microphone worked well and library and the comic book Characters could ahve wore more different clothes to be more different, easier to tell apart.

Special effects
Whole video based on SFX such as (list) Help the ideas to come alive and helps the video to be interesting and visually impressive. Without effects it would have been really hard to do what they would have done, without making it confusing.