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.