I really enjoyed the production of this project, and I’m really pleased with the final video.
I asked for some critical feedback from a friend who used to study media, and he said that his only criticisms were that it was very similar to the Lasse Gjersens videos, which are well known in the internet.
It was a lot of fun to be able to film this, and the nature of the video meant that we were free to explore different camera techniques which was good for us. It was a big bonus to have someone with musical talent in our group, because we were able to discuss how the song would sound and she would be there to show us what notes we would need to play in order to create that tune.
Filming was really simple, and we got it all done in a couple of sessions. One filming location was at Ginas house, and the other was in one of the sound recording studions which was kindly lent to us for an afternoon at BU.
It was easy to get everyone together for filming, but a couple of people found it hard to keep their concentration and felt the need to leave to make toast halfway through filming in the studio, which was a bit of a time waster and a let down, but we managed to get there in the end.
I do wish that we could have looked more into lighting in some of the locations, but I think that if it looked all set up with perfect lighting, then it would loose its ‘homemade’ look which is what we wanted to go for.
I really liked that all the instruments came together but started at different points in the song. There were a couple of variations made before the final product, they’re all uploaded and on my blog for you to see. You will notice a change in the start, and how th transitions change. There was an idea to film the video so that different people walk into the scene and swap instruments, and although it would be a refreshing idea, was decided against in the end. I disagreed with it because it would have everything look messy, you can only have so much going on.
