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.