Total reboot

after deducting all of the information and feedback earlier today, Mr smith suggested, amongst other things, me and Harley should shoulder some of the more important stuff in the making of the video. the Video has been given a very low mark, due to lacking of shots and being drastically unclear. heeding Mr smiths advice me and Harley have began to put together what we think may turn the project around and show it in a new lite, however retaining the defining qualities of it's storyline.

Some of the main things were picking up on for our failure last time are lack of organisation (big time) as we were sometimes when filming saying for example "OK then we'll just film what we can here, get a variety of shots and then we'll pull something out of it afterwards", which is now clearly not good enough - our storyboard is there for a reason and we need to stick to it with total accuracy. Also, an animatic would be nice. Which brings me on to my next point: Some of us are taking to much responsibility; this is a team for a reason, and the tasks need to be shared out equally - taking as much responsibility as possible doesn't generate marks for yourself, it brings the entire group down because of lack of fulfilment. This isn't a dig at anyone, but we all need to stop making promises we cannot keep because it doesn't do us any favours, just makes us fall down in key areas.

Also, we need a decent amount of space and props, and we have to be certain that we are using the best available location for our filming before we go there to do it, as this has been the downfall of our band scene filming, and has therefore cost us a big chunk of marks. we now have a good idea of where we are filming this, however we have suffered because of poor organisation for our first draft. we all need to agree on an area which is sufficient and has the necessary qualities to fulfill the requirements of the scene we are shooting. Which leads me to the next point: Mise en scene needs to be immaculate, anything less isn't good enough. the scenes of the protagonist didn't have the right mise en scene, neither did the bedroom or the suburbs of braunstone. the best mise en scene in the video was probably the subway and the CCTV shot, as they both connote the right messages e.g. enclosed short spaces, cloudy and gloomy, being watched etc. the bedroom scene could have been massively successfull if our mise en scene was bang on, e.g. without any knowledge of what we were going for, viewers wouldn't have been able to tell that our protagonist was who he was and was looking for the truth, e.g. no projects or posters visible in the bedroom. This is one area i intend to focus on, to take the strain off of the group and because i think i have quite an eye for mise en scene and some good ideas which connote to the symbolism of our video.
We also need a better storyboard this time, as last time ours was to sketchy and slightly inaccurate. also, Mr smith warned us it was lacking in speed and shot variety, but we did not have time to change this, so we were filming on impulse rather than keeping to a decent set storyboard. Also, it would result in a bad animatic, if we had one. All of the things i have written about seem to be the main downfalls of this group, and we have already started to fix what we can by taking even amounts of responsibility, and me and Harley have began to take on the storyboard, and i intend to make a start on the animatic by the end of today hopefully.