Monday 30 January 2012

Journal: 30/01/12

Here are some of the most recent effects which have been added to our music video:



Friday 27 January 2012

Journal:27/01/12

After our first screening Leanne and Jack suggested we incorporated some sort of sunset/sunrise at the beginning and the end of our music video. Emily took one of the flip cameras and set it up near her house-this was the view:

This is an example of the footage which was filmed:


We have decided to film the sunset again after research a more appropriate time to get the best footage possible. We had a look on google at what time the sunset was going to occur:

Thursday 26 January 2012

Journal: 26/01/12

Here are some examples of the effects we have used in our music video:



Journal: 26/01/12

I have started to redo my digipak this is because our music video has developed a tremendous amount since the last time I created a digipak. With all the new effects in our music video I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate some stills from the video in the actual digipak.

Monday 23 January 2012

First Attempt of our music video

Photo Animations

Here are the picture animations we created that we have edited into our music video. These turned out to be very successful and look really good with the rest of our footage. The reason we decided to do these animations is because we thought it would add an exciting element to our video and we wanted to try our new ways of creating a video instead of just using a normal video camera.










Journal: 23/01/12

In todays lesson we screened our music video for the first time. 
We had six different groups observing the video and giving us feedback; all six groups said the video definitely had potential. Here are some of the main points of feedback we received: 
The elements that work:
  • Good editing
  • Good effects - could add more!
  • The dancing
  • Nice shoes and props
  • Lips
  • Animations
  • Split screens
  • Good make up
  • Split screens when getting ready
  • The ballet dancing
Elements that need developing:
  • Bit too short
  • Clearer cuts
  • Some shots are too long
  • Writing on the mirror
  • More split screens
  • Clothing on bed sequence repeated once too many

Thursday 12 January 2012

Music Video Progress

WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF EDITING 

We had the initial idea of placing colour filters over some of the footage we filmed; we were not entirely sure how to do this so we did our research and found a way to alter the colour of the footage. At one point in our music video we have a triple split screen of lips singing the lyrics of the song. We put a different colour filter over each pair of lips (one orange pair, one pink pair and one blue pair).

Also we put an effect over the clips of dancing feet-both the ballet and tap. The effect looks as if the image has been drawn, also the colours are just black and white so we have more space to experiment with different colours to use for the the text we are going to place over the footage.

We still need to film some more footage due to the lack of footage we have at the moment as a result of changing our music video song. We are planning to do some more filming this evening and then we will have the bulk of footage complete. Next monday we are going to project one of images below on to a white wall and have Emily do a jump over the projection, we will then slow down the footage and place it at the end of the music video as the music is fading out. The slow motion signifies the end of the song as is follows the fading out of the music.

Projection Option One

Projection Option Two

Projection Option Three

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Typography being used in the video

In our music video we want to use text, showing the lyrics being sung. We took inspiration from Rhianna's music videos, she use brightly coloured texts for certain lyrics.

Here are some examples of the font we are planning to use:

Journal:4/01/12

Over the holidays we completed our filming, we rented two cameras from school and organised days to film whilst we were not at school.

The first piece of filming we done was using the lip transfers and having extreme close ups of DJ DES's lips singing the lyrics of the song.

These are some of the lip transfers we used to shoot


We plan to use a filter over the shots of the mouth, using bright colours and possibly crop the footage into strips.

Monday 2 January 2012

Journal:2/01/12-Why we changed our song

Our original song was 'Do Your Thing', we changed our first idea due to the time and possible weather issues we may have faced whilst during filming. Then after we changed our idea, we came up with another idea to use with the same song with a slightly different cast. However due to time constraints with some cast members our filming schedule did not go to plan and therefore we had to changed our music video concept a third time.

We thought it would be best to brainstorm parts of music videos that we liked and began to think of a song we believed would be better suited to what we wanted to achieve from our music video. After a little while we finally found that the best song would be 'Pump Up The Jam' by Technotronic; the song itself was released in the 80s and our ideas reflected a retro 80s vibe.