Running shop advertisement video

Looks good.

I'd have a look at the white balance if you can though.
 
I thought Lou looked a little yellow, and the outside of the shop a bit cold.
 
A bit of music would help it no end - nothing invasive, just underscore.

Check out http://www.audionetwork.com - very reasonably priced and high quality. Don't listen to it all too much though... you'll start recognising music on the TV constantly!
 
No problem! It really dosen't neet much, but I think it would really help. Other than that it looks great, I'm sure they'll be very happy with it!
 
I'd agree with the above. Find a bit of royalty free music to give it a little sparkle.
Lose the first image of the desk/poster - looks scruffy.
Keep the sound of the door but add a little montage of shoes (that's what it's about after all)
or use a reverse of the end shot - zoom in on shop window.
Don't be afraid to show more stock, trainers etc This will allow you
to cover over some more of Lou which will allow you to cut out some
of her 'um's' and 'er's' which makes her sound un-confident.
As the client she'll appreciate it.
Pop in another little montage of trainers etc to get around jump cut
of Lou at end.
 
Having a look now and apologise if I go over the previous posters comments.

1) Reduce the clip where the guy comes through the door, it's too long.

2) I believe someone advised you to adjust the white balance but I believe what they should have said was adjust the colour balance. You have shot under strip lighting and there is daylight also which can be tricky to balance but you have done the shoot, you have to live with the footage you have.

3) Again too late now but perhaps next time you do similar is to get the person to voice the dialogue whilst reading it, then you can take the audio clip and drop it onto the footatge (too many umms).

4) I liked some of the focusing effects, made it look pro but would suggest like using other effects, you use it sparingly.

5) Finally good job and another suggestion would have been to use different angled head shots for the dialogue, then the jump cuts would have looked much better.

I bet the client was happy with it.
 
Phil,

just to say I think the recut has helped it a lot.

One thing though. On Vimeo the cut Lou is panned hard left while all
the other sound elements are centred or stereo L/R.

You might want to take a look at that because if someone doesn't have there
computer speakers set up correctly Lou might disappear from
the mix altogether.
 
OwenP said:
Phil,

just to say I think the recut has helped it a lot.

One thing though. On Vimeo the cut Lou is panned hard left while all
the other sound elements are centred or stereo L/R.

You might want to take a look at that because if someone doesn't have there
computer speakers set up correctly Lou might disappear from
the mix altogether.
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That would be my mic recording in mono...

Cheers.
 
OwenP said:
I doubt that's it Phil. The guy coming through the door is probably mono too.
It's where the pan on the track was set in the editing prog you used.
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Nope...it's the mic recording in mono. The lead is a mono lead not stereo so it only feeds the left channel. Just to be sure, I have checked to make sure it's not the pan and it isn't, because the lead (and mic) is mono it would never have had the right channel anyway.

For more clarification, the mic is from maplin and the product number is BV57M.

Thanks.
 
Phil Young said:
Nope...it's the mic recording in mono. The lead is a mono lead not stereo so it only feeds the left channel. Just to be sure, I have checked to make sure it's not the pan and it isn't, because the lead (and mic) is mono it would never have had the right channel anyway.

For more clarification, the mic is from maplin and the product number is BV57M.

The door sound was recorded from the same mic.

Thanks.
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Phil Young said:
Nope...it's the mic recording in mono. The lead is a mono lead not stereo so it only feeds the left channel.
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Hi Phil,

I understand what you're saying. Mono mic lead into your camera or audio recorder only feeds the left track. But when you edit the sound you can pan
the left track so it comes out centred on the edit for your final export.

What editing software are you using and I'll try to advise.

Just as a point of interest, all mic's are mono. A stereo mic is just two mono
mic's set up to replicate human hearing (sort of...)
 
OwenP said:
Hi Phil,

I understand what you're saying. Mono mic lead into your camera or audio recorder only feeds the left track. But when you edit the sound you can pan
the left track so it comes out centred on the edit for your final export.

What editing software are you using and I'll try to advise.

Just as a point of interest, all mic's are mono. A stereo mic is just two mono
mic's set up to replicate human hearing (sort of...)
Click to expand...

You sure Owen? My mics when I used to sing were stereo?

Anyway, adobe premiere prop CS6 :)

Cheers.
 
Phil Young said:
You sure Owen? My mics when I used to sing were stereo?
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Pretty sure what you had was a mic with two capsules in it.
(or a balanced mono mic - has a jack on it like stereo headphones but it's mono)

A mic is just an electronic version of an ear and we need two of those
in order to discern the location of sound.
It's the same for mics, how the capsules are arranged dictates how they
'hear the world' but it always needs two capsules to give stereo perspective.

When you put Lou's audio track on the timeline I'm guessing it shows up
on the audio panel to the left of it as L & R audio track with Lou's audio
just on the left channel. (the Right channel being just silence)

Easiest way I've found to make it come out left and right speakers is;

go to the effects panel>audio effects>stereo>fill left (if that's the side the sound is on)

apply effect to the audio clip and what's on the left will also play out of the right speaker.

For future ref: If this happens again with a clip having audio on only one side.
Before you put the clip on the timeline if you select it in the bin
go to top menu bar>clip>audio options>break out to mono
 
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