Final version

Although at times, rather stressful and hectic, this coursework hasn't been half as bad as I had assumed it to be, and I can actually say, I did learn a lot about the editing of a music video and the importance of certain conventions of a music video, and on the whole it was (at times) fun!

It has been a great learning curve for myself and my fellow group members, in the sense that we stumbled across many obstacles which the other groups had not encountered; such as the lip synching, the darkness, the location, the constant postponing of the re-film of the lip synching and the anxiousness that we may not reach the final deadline (but we did!) etc. But we got there eventually in the end,  and I therefore think we can safely say that all these mistakes paid off and that the we are exceptionally proud of our final edit of the music video. 

For the schedule of our production, we stuck to the Dipity timeline which we had created, apart from the last few weeks where we went off schedule and decided to spend more time on the first draft to perfect it as much as possible, as opposed to making several drafts and editing each one - we preferred the idea of putting in more hard work for the first draft and resulting in very little editing to do once feedback was received, which I think paid off. 

There were times in the music video when the acting can be perceived as a little 'over dramatic', although during the editing process, I actually felt that this was indirectly a genre convention, in the sense that many music videos within the indietronica genre are almost mocking either themselves, the genre or other genres - therefore this over dramatic acting can indirectly be seen as a genre convention - working out in our favour. It is also important to note that we are a bunch of sixth form students which practically no money or high - tech equipment, so obviously our music video wasn't going to turn out like a Beyonce music video would. however, for a student effort, we think that we did a pretty good job overall, and made it as professional looking as we possibly could.

Here is our last and FINAL version of our music video - Constant Conversations: 

Enjoy!