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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
