Behind The Scenes 2

This was behind the scenes of the dark, coloured lighting shots. We had a make up artist come in and paint Tay in a sort of alien make up to make her seem out of this world and extra-terrestrial. We knew we wanted this scene to be one of the most interesting and one of the weirdest. So we tried to make her look as appropriately weird as we could. This scene also included a variation of shots and a wide range of of editing styles that were done in post production.

Behind The Scenes 1

This is the first video for the behind the scenes of the production of Overdrive - Irreverence. In this scene we were shooting the bedroom scene for the chorus. We tried many times to get a dynamic shot of the actress falling on to her bed. We first had her hold the camera on her face and have her fall with the camera to get the shot, that didn't really work as it was hard to get the correct angles on her face. It was also hard for the actress to focus on pointing the camera, acting to the camera and knowing when to fall.

We then tried to have Ben fall with the actress whilst holding the camera recording her. This way we could get the correct angles and the actress did not have to worry about keeping the camera at a distance and angling it herself. But as you can see from the video we quickly realised that there was no way for Ben to stop himself from falling with her.

In the end we had Eddie act as a stopping motion for Ben by holding on to him and pulling him back before he falls. This was successful and we got the shot we wanted.

Website: Tour Page

The tour page is again a way of making the website seem official and authentic. None of the links work and tickets are not available to buy, but it does give the impression that we are a real touring band and we play at several different locations. The colour scheme is again the same and the buttons glow red when hovered over.

Website: Music Page

The music page is a simple page that has a link to our music video where you can watch it straight on the website. We took this idea from Calvin Harris's website as we agreed that it allows for fans who may not know about us to easily see our most recent music video. There is also two links to the left hand side. One isn't currently showing up but it is a link to get the song on spotify, but ultimately we could not get the song on spotify so the link is for show. And secondly we have a link to iTunes. We wanted to do this to again increase the authenticity of the website and the band to make it appear as though we are a real band. The font and background is consistent throughout all pages.

Website: Album Page

We wanted to make our website really creative and authentic. We found a feature which lets us add an album on website which also acts as the store as you can buy and share the album. It also has a working music player with our song on there but we haven't included other song titles from the album. There is a picture of our band on the front for the deluxe edition album and all the information about the album is there.

Website: About Page

Here is the about page for our band's website, it is quite simplistic which fits with the genre, but this also challenges the genre as quite a lot of house music artists do not have an about page on their website. We wanted to have an about page that introduces us as a band and gives a small bit of background about us as it allows us to connect with our fans. It gives fans the opportunity to know a little more about us, and give the impression that we are disclosing personal information or information fans otherwise wouldn't have known. This is more typical of the pop genre but we wanted to include this because we feel that many it is also a typical convention of a band. Each member has their own story and personality which should be shared.

There is also a small paragraph describing the aim of the band, what its all about, and how it was formed.

Website: Home Page

Here we have our homepage. We utilised the same space background throughout the entire website as we wanted to stay consistent. From our research we found that a lot of house music artists use a similar colour scheme of black, white and red in their websites. So we chose to use those colours in ours. We have a white navigation bar on top which has our bands logo on the top left and social media links underneath. All social media links work and will take you to the corresponding social media website. Our navigation buttons are in the top right, each work efficiently and are clearly visible. Finally we wanted to have a very social, interactive feel to our website so we decided to use photos from our bands shoot on the homepage, similar to the Skrillex site researched, as it gives fans the opportunity to see what we get up to and have a behind the scenes feel, allowing fans to connect with us and stay up to date.

Website: Intro Page

For our homepage we wanted to create a sense of infinity and endlessness, so we decided to use space as our background as it works with the genre of our band which is electro/house. It is also representative of our band as believe our music to be innovative and out of this world. We wanted to have an intro page before the home page to make it a little more interactive for viewers, and a lot more visual, to show that a lot of effort has been put into this website. We also chose to have the name of our band front and centre so that everyone knows it is our website and we are promoting our name.

Storyboard Animatic

Editing - Split Screen

Slit screen was used to create a symmetrical effect in our video. We did this by creating one of the panels of the split screen then mirroring it on the other side of the video. After creating this effect the center felt lack luster so we decided to cut lip sync on the beat of the music video in a rotating fashion to give the impression of an ellipses of time while the events of the side panels occur.
We used colour grading on these videos to give them a more vibrant dream like feel as the natural footage was bland and gray in comparison contrasting the theme and style of the rest of our music video

Editing - Intro

Editing - 7 second beats

Our music video needed more 'WOW' factor so we used the fast pace 7 half second beats to attempt to increase the tempo of our video. These were created using the small sections of high energy footage we were able to find in our larger videos. we opted to use footage without lip sync as these sections of the song don't have any lyrics to sing. There were a total of 5 times in which this effect was used and each one is more intense than the last.

Editing - Titles

To make our titles suit, the hyperactive style of our music video, we decided to use a sans serif script font, however we felt this wasn't enough so I decided to use key frames to animate the titles for added affect. these frames make text, swipe, pan, and wipe in order to appear reappear and move in interesting ways. I also used key framing to make the text bounce of itself in time with the music. i used a black background and white text to match the titles used throughout as white and black being contrasting colours matches the borders used for the split screen effect.

Editing - Screen Cropping

for our video we used a technique in which we cropped footage an overplayed it so that we could make it seem as if there were multiple of our star in a single shot (in the same environment at the same time) In the end this effect proved successful however we did come across a few difficulties in production.

the difficulty came with he actual post production as when we recorded this footage the two videos had slightly different lighting so the two videos looked different to fix this we needed to key frame colour correction on one of the videos to match the other.

Final Music Video

Here is our final music video for the song Gecko(Overdrive) by Oliver Heldens. We decided to include an intro to the music video as did Oliver Heldens to the original. After extensive research we found that many house music videos have a brief 20 second or less introduction without music to set the scene, as many house music videos are very narrative. Which is what we accomplished in our music video. 
This is a first render so may be re rendered to create a higher quality product as some issues may have become evident in the render footage as this tends to be lower quality when uploaded to video sharing services.

Behind The Scenes Day 3

We shot the scene that is supposed the communicate the idea of a nightmare in our work. We accomplished this though the juxtaposition of the green and red, as complimentary course they each make the other stand out. We wanted to use make-up to help create our star image , we used abstract make-up to give an other worldly image to our performer, something out of her comfort zone that would give the impression she was something resembling an alien but not changing her image entirely. Anisa helped us with make-up by using a paler foundation/ face paint to give the impression of pale skin, this was blended with pink and blue eye shadows to contour her cheeks making her feature stand out more so that they could come out more prominent in post. They're close ups on her eyes and lips so we used a galactic colour scheme on the parts of her face that would be seen close up.

Gel lighting was used to create the red and green i explained in this blog post

Meeting #8

We have been working on improving and fine tuning the lip sync for our chorus as the is the most important aspect of our music video being what truly communicates the idea that something isn't right within the narrative as we have attempted to create what we have names glitches in the vide (events in which editing is used to make the impression that something is broken in the reality we have created in the narrative) These glitches are the most heavily edited parts of our work and so are the most noticeable. 

almost finished- Edit of Overdrive

This is the finished edit of our music vide without any titles also missing the intro scene but this video clearly shows the lip sync and wow factor we a re trying to communicate to the audience. To improve we will add the intro scene and credits to match with what our research has shown about many music videos as the tend to have titles when also having a narrative. the narrative of our video will also be completed once we include the intro seen into the video.

Meeting #7

We created a rough cut of our chorus in which we attempted to make use of the seven beats that are repeated to create a high energy feel to our work. on the review from our audience we learned that we should try to edit everything in the video on beat as this will increase the tempo of our work and make it more energetic.

Location - Park, Dream Garden

We want to create one section of our music video that seems very dream like to contrast the nightmarish scene that is adjacent to this one.We took photos that we may use as blank slates to base the planning for our more difficult shots.During these shots our performer will enter and exit the shot from what seems to be impossible areas taking away from the reality of the scene and making it seem more dream like. We plan on having scenes in which it seems our our performer is being chased, we plan on using a long stretch of hedged area as well as a shaky chasing cam combined with quick edits this should give the impression of something gaining on them. 

 We plan on doing the effect where our performer can be seen on screen twice by using the effect of doors as a "gateway" we are going to accomplish this by setting up our shots so that we have clear borders close to the doors to hide what we are actually doing. We also plan on using the foliage to mask the feathered line created by cropping our footage due to slight lighting changes that may occur when adjusting focus to the performer returning to frame.

 One of our ideas for the ending of the video involves the band being passed out/ unconscious on a bench after the events of the music video end. We also have plans on a different ending that shows the main performer just waking up on her own and her friends missing to make the idea of a dream ambiguous.  


We may want to have a long establishing/ running shot of the garden/ park environment in our music video so took location shots of the park to create this.

Behind The Scenes Day 1

06/12/15 - Green, Red shoot

These photos are from our second shoot in this we used make up to give our performer an other wordily alien look, we used the colour green and blue to communicate this concept and the mix between the two we feel will be successful when it comes to editing.
The decision to use green and red comes from the artistic relationship between the two as complimentary colours.



 Being opposite each other on the colour wheel they bring out the most in the other colour and would be considered to possess the strongest sense of juxtaposition in terms of what colours to match. In our music video we plan on creating a nightmarish like lip sync sequence which can show the idea of fear and shock in dreams/ a trip.We feel using this clash of colour and editing it with the high intensity rhythm of the song will add to the visual appeal and be part of the "wow factor of our work"  along with the creative editing we plan on using that will make use of cropping footage to encompass all the space of the frame.

Chorus Rough Edit

This is the first version of the chorus for our music video. We decided on trying to create high energy through an avid amount of cuts. We experimented with editing by using tiny segments of one shot to create repetition and an unsettling edge to a seemingly happy and bubbly performance. We decided to continue this idea throughout in the developed version to create pace and reflect the genre of music which is House. 

Our decision to use coloured shots in the chorus added bright elements to the music video but ultimately seemed too out of place. So we chose to use these towards the end of the music video on the second chorus to give it shape.

Behind The Scenes Day 2

 This day we recorded more lip sync for the opening of our music video, we recorded in an underpass as this location has the colours we wanted to use in our production. Colour is a focus of our work as we feel that this adds an artistic element to our work as well as help us use colour to create an atmosphere to our work. the use of gold like tones in our shot will give the impression of something other worldly and dream like. 

Park Location Shots

We plan to use a park for one of the scenes of our production. This will be a more narrative focused scene meaning we have less room for improvisation concerning shots and footage which can be typical of music videos as idea tend to come when in the middle of shooting. For this reason we made location shots in this area a priority giving us adequate room for planning shots and scenes.

we are going to include a shot of our characters passed out on a bench so we looked for several benches to find out which would work best in terms of composition. We looked for different lighting scenarios to see whether shooting at different times of the day affected the shot dramatically as we didn't want a shot covered in too many shadows. we used 4 different benches in different locations as well as they each have different backgrounds, as we wanted to zoom out from this shot we looked for an area with enough space.
 we wanted some long shots and zoom outs from our bench so looked for different angles and distances at which we could zoom to/ from as we didn't want to remove any of the information in the scene. We also looked at this location as it has a good view of the sun's path over the course of a day. We may want to create a time-lapse of our final shot and use this as our ending scene.    

 We wanted to use camera and editing tricks to make it seem as if doors completely apart from each other are connected almost as if they're portals to do this we searched for a location that has multiple doors that we could capture in a single shot as this was needed to create the desired effect in our music video.  

Meeting #6

In this meeting we discussed and reviewed our first 3 days of shooting. from our footage we discovered that we needed to create the narrative aspects of our work as these help to split up the sections that aren't central to the narrative but help to add the conventions typically seen in a music video this will help to assist with the image of our work as we are attempting to create a band that would be typically seen in a music video. We are using lip sync to create a more realistic star image one that can be seen as believable.