Yesterday me and Ian continued to edit our music video, however we were limited with time and after eventually seeking out a camera to enable us to upload our footage, we could only use about 35 minutes to edit our video.
After uploading further footage which we filmed around school, me and Ian were pleased with the shots which we achieved. The 'locker' sequence, which involves me opening my locker to find a romantic teddy bear from Ian within the music video, has worked extremely well. We filmed this sequence from 4 different angles to allow us diversity and to also reflect the typical variation of shots within music videos. To ensure that our music video coincides with the sound of the music and portrays the image we want, it is crucial that me and Ian are precise with our editing. I thought it best to use all 4 of the angles we filmed to create the locker sequence however Ian felt this would cause our video to be too jumpy and quick. To overcome this, we slowed the speed of the clips down from 100% to 85%, this gave a slower effect without it being too obvious, allowing the character's actions to seem natural.
As we were only able to edit for 35 minutes, me and Ian only managed to edit 9 seconds worth of footage together, however I feel this is one of the more dynamic sequences within our music video as it uses 4 different angles including hand held to reveal the character's point of view.
Whilst editing yesterday, I felt that me and Ian have quite a bit more filming to do. The 9 seconds we edited took around one hour to film, proving that our technique of filming the same actions from different angles is proving to be extremely time consuming. To overcome this, me and Ian are using more of our time within school to edit, and are using time out of school and lunchtimes to focus on the creation of our ancillary tasks. Although very time consuming, I feel the technique of filming from a variety of angles gives our video a different edge and will keep the audience engaged
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Editing
This screenshot shows the concept based part of our video. The large image on the right shows several love-hearts with romantic messages written on them. The clips on the left show the love-hearts on the floor and falling from the letterbox. As they fall from the letterbox, we chose to repeat the clip but reverse it to create our concept based idea. The love-hearts play no part in the performance or narrative aspect of our video but still convey the idea of romance and admiration.
This screenshot shows the transition myself and Ian chose to use. It has been used between 2 shots of myself within the video and is used in order to make the music video more fluent. The blurred transition could also represent the confusion between the two characters within the video over their secretive and romantic feelings.
This medium shot was filmed by lowering the tripod to it's lowest height and placing the camera on top. The shot itself does not last long as it is only needed to establish the arrival of the girl when she gets to school.
Both myself and Ian really like this close up used here. We were worried the lighting in this location would be a hindrance as we could not control the natural sunlight. However the bright light behind Ian's head works well as it is a handheld point of view shot from the female character, revealing an almost romantic and angelic image of the boy she likes.
This screenshot shows Ian in the location where we took our pictures in order to establish where was best to film. This long shot turns into a medium shot as Ian walks towards the camera revealing him as a character more clearly.
This screenshot from our music video relates to the performance based aspect of our video. It shows a close up of Ian miming part of the song 'You, Your Cat and me'.
This screenshot shows the transition myself and Ian chose to use. It has been used between 2 shots of myself within the video and is used in order to make the music video more fluent. The blurred transition could also represent the confusion between the two characters within the video over their secretive and romantic feelings.
This medium shot was filmed by lowering the tripod to it's lowest height and placing the camera on top. The shot itself does not last long as it is only needed to establish the arrival of the girl when she gets to school.
Both myself and Ian really like this close up used here. We were worried the lighting in this location would be a hindrance as we could not control the natural sunlight. However the bright light behind Ian's head works well as it is a handheld point of view shot from the female character, revealing an almost romantic and angelic image of the boy she likes.
This screenshot shows Ian in the location where we took our pictures in order to establish where was best to film. This long shot turns into a medium shot as Ian walks towards the camera revealing him as a character more clearly.
This screenshot from our music video relates to the performance based aspect of our video. It shows a close up of Ian miming part of the song 'You, Your Cat and me'.The reason we have chosen to hide his eyes and show his collar and tie reflects the shy personality of our character within the video. The slightly off centre position of Ian revealing the plain white background keeps the video simplistic, focusing mainly on the character and his actions
Beginning to edit our music video
Me and Ian have began to edit our music video, producing around 1 minutes worth of footage, leaving us just over 2 minutes left to partly film and edit. We feel so far that our music video is coherent and works well, however has strayed from being a simple narrative based video. Me and Ian felt it best to use the two of miming parts of the song, creating a performance based video as well as narrative. A small segment of our video also makes it concept based. We believe that by combining all three elements, our music video will be diverse and creative whilst effective at the same time.
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