NW - Evaluation - Forms and Conventions

-our video has an indie stylistic feel. I took a lot of inspiration from “for the first time” by the script, the shots of the band performing in the drama studio were based loosely on the shots I watched in that video. We tried to keep to conventions which i believe we have achieved as our narrative and performance enforce conventions and the filter i made to go over the top made the video feel much more indie and british as the dark de-saturated colour is often seen in indie videos.

-The camera work that we used gave us a variety of shots some of these worked better then others. with the shots that we did in the drama studio with the performance we used a dolly and close ups, these worked very well as they follow conventions. however, the shots of the narrative done in the drama studio did not work quite as well as they did not fit with the overall feel of the video but the shots on their own were not bad. we tried to come up with our own ideas as well as taking from videos that we have watched, many of the shots at camber were shots that we had come up with, but the drama studio was mostly taken from conventions we had spotted in other videos.
-When editing for meaning we used filters to clearly show the difference in location and who was in the shots. for example the shots at camber with the actors we used a yellowish sepia filter with gave a contrast that was not drastic. the simple low fi effects that we have used are in keeping with indie music and british music.
- Our use of mise-en-scene has allowed us to convey meaning through the use of location as we have shot our performance in a drama studio showing that they are a band and obviously they are performing the song, this also adds to their star image, the narrative is shot in camber sands and the filter we have put over the top shows that there is a clear difference between the two locations adding to the meaning of the video.

- Our video can be seen as Postmodern through the way we tell our Asynchronous narrative while we overlay this with the performance and draw a link between these two locations by having the performance shot in both locations. Through this we have also helped to construct the star image as you could read this text as when the band are performing in camber they are seen as present and ordinary they when we cut to the shots in the studio they would be seen as absent and extraordinary.