Editing

This is a screengrab of three clips in our editing process, of how they fit into our song with the lyrics.
From our first stage of filming, we have started putting together our clips into an order with our song.
But as we still have more filming and editing to do, and have only just begun piecing our video together, we expect our order will completely change.

Filming part 2

This weekend, me and my partner Laura are planning to film our second stage of our music video. Looking back on our first stage of filming, we have learnt that we need to use a tripod to steady the camera movements, we have also planned to film our model singing the full song completely so we have lots of material to work with when editing. We also think transitioning our scenes between the same scene of our model singing and then alternating scenes of narrative will create a professional appeal to our video. 

From the beginning we had planned to use three locations, one in the meadows, one in a pub/cafe and one in a bedroom, however the use of public spaces to film is extremely difficult as we have had problems getting permission, and the lighting in the particular bedrooms we have access to, is not so good. Therefore we have decided to use the meadows as our only location for filming, however there are many different scenes at this setting that we can use. For example, the bridge, in long grass, under trees, in the woods and in the river. 

CD Cover Blank Mock-Up

 

We have used Adobe Illustrator to create a blank template for the front and back of our CD cover. We have looked up some examples to guide us, and we have found that the majority of covers are quite simplistic and iconic as the artists have established themselves enough for the audience to recognise them from the photograph alone.

 

 

These are two examples of simplistic yet effective CD covers.

The first cover is clever in the way that 'Rhianna' is so iconic herself that she hasnt even included

her name, just the letter 'R' as the audience will recognise her just from the image alone.

 

Editing

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When editing our music video we need to think about the shots we are putting together, for example: high angle, low angle, establishing and pan shots and how the scenes tranisition between the different shots and the effects they create. We want to keep our audience enganged and understanding of the narrative of the video, whilst also creating a professional look. 

Photos and Clips from Filming

PHOTOS

Whilst filming we took some photos of our model in different positions and locations. We are pleased with these outcomes, but we are undecided weather to use them for our ancillary task products so we are going to do a separate photo-shoot with our model against a white backdrop with studio lighting, to give a chance at it looking more professional. 

I really like this photograph as the lighting is shining behind our model, connoting a positive ambiance to our model.

I feel like this photo is too posed

This is my favourite photograph as the lighting looks natural against the models face, and you can see the sunlight shining on the water through the trees.

I dont like my models facial expression, as I feel it is quite serious. However I do like the lighting against my models skin and the brightness of the colours.

I like the lighting in this image as it is bright and accentuates all the colours but the model is looking down and I feel it makes her look sad.

The lighting is too bright in the background of this image and the model looks in an uncomtfortable posture.

I really like this photo, however the quality of it is not so good as it appears blurry.

 

CLIPS

 

These are some clips from our first part of filming, they are undedited and still have the orignial sound to them. When editing we are going to remove the sound from the video's so that you can't hear the surroundings, talking and music we played during filming.

 

 

 

We liked this video as our model portrays a happy role model figure but during editing we will crop the clip down to be percieved as memories rather than dragging it out.

 

 

After reflecting on this video, we felt the lighting was too harsh and bright against our models face and chose not to include it as part of our video. However, we did like how the models hair blows in the wind creating a natural, calm, atmosphere which is what we want to put across in our video.

 

 

Watching this clip we notice our models lip syncing was not in time with the music at all, and therefore for the next stages of filming we need her to learn the words off by heart, to look proffessional.

 

Reflection after first stage of filming

Me and my partner Laura have completed one stage of filming for our video now. We went to our first location which is the Meadows and began to shoot our music video. Firstly, we chose our models outfit which was a yellow and white lace knit jumper and blue scalloped shorts which we decided look very quirky and vintage which is the look we are aiming for. We also put red lipstick on our model to make her appeal to a wide audience, red is a bright colour which connotes confidence and passion which we want to show as good qualities for girls to have, but it can also come across as a sultry, provocative colour which will attract the male audience. We then positioned our model in different settings and body language positions and began filming. Some of our scenes when looking back have turned out well with good camera angles, lighting and miming. However, some of our clips, have turned out blurry, shaky and the lighting is either too dim, due to a sudden change in weather or too bright causing a flare against our models skin. For our next stage of filming we plan to use a tripod to allow no shaking from the handheld and we have decided that we will use two cameras so we have a wide range of angles incase one side appears better than the other. We are also going to keep the weather in consideration, so if the sun goes in or it begins to rain we will stop filming until it improves, to allow for the best quality we can achieve. 

StoryBoard

This is our storyboard, which we have created to follow when filming. We plan to start our music video with an establishing shot, to set the scene and mood of our genre of music and theme to our video. Next, we want to alternate between different location scenes of our model, paying the guitar and miming the song. The types of shots we are going to try and take are: establishing shot, high angle, low angle, close-up, extreme close-up, long shot and pan.