Drafting and Planning: Extra and Re-shot Footage

Today I have collected the last bits of footage I need for my music video. I have experimented with a few extra shot types, such as a low angle shot, to see how it looks. Due to weather difficulties, I have not been able to go through with my stop motion idea and so have only shot video footage. 




In editing, some of the longer videos will be cropped for just the best snippets, as some of the footage in some videos are not relevant.

Research Into Similar Products: David Bowie

To mark the release of his new album and also, sadly his death (R.I.P), David Bowie released the video for the track 'Lazarus.' This video is quite emotional and inspirational and has inspired me to try some new things when I reshoot some footage.

One thing that gripped me with this video is the use of the tracking shot that goes around the bed. I find this a very interesting shot as it shows everything about Bowie in his situation and the slow pace makes it rather eerie.



This is a shot that I would like to encorporate into my own video, only at a slightly faster pace. A good place to use this would be during the blanket scene, so I will attempt this shot and evaluate which shot I think is better.

Research Into Similar Products: Editings - All Tvvins

I've been considering ways to make my video seem a little more interesting and a way I thought I could do this is through the editing. After watching the video for 'Thank You' by All Tvvins, I really began to adore the idea of overlapping videos.



I really like this type of editing and if I were to use this type of editing in my own video, it could reflect how the couples closeness is a distant memory and only faintly there now. I may use them in clips such as these:






 

I could have a tracking shot of my actress overlapped with this to create this sort of emotion.

Target Audience: Effects

After uploading some of the effects that I have decided to use in my music video, a few members of my target audience have commented on them.

The fact that these commenter's like my choice of effects as it is very reassuring. It means that the aesthetic I'm going for has been achieved and accepted. These commenter's have also picked up on how these effects compliment the actors feelings, which is reassuring as it means that the emotion is being put across effectively and isn't too hard to see.

However, I recieved a comment which has been quite useful.

This may be because the blue is quite obvious and dominating. Maybe to make it seem more professional, I could tone it down a bit so it's not so 'in your face.'

These comments have been very useful and the mixed reactions have made me take a step back and realise how I can make it look better.

Drafting and Planning: Digipak Cover Effects

To give myself a rough idea of how I would like my front cover to look, I have used an app on my phone called 'VSCOCAM,' which edits photos. By doing this, I now know for definite, what effects I would like to use for the rest of the images for my album. The only problem is, is that by using the phone app, the photo quality is degraded and so I need to figure a way to create a similar effect using a program such as PagePlus.

I also took screenshots of the effects I combined and how much of each I used to create the effect above.

Target Audience: Stop Motion

After uploading my attempts at stop motion, I recieved some positive comments from this.

These comments are very comforting as they confirm that using stop motion would go down well with my target audience and would be greatly received.

Research Into Similar Products: Lykke Li

As I am going to do some extra filming for my video, I have been looking at different videos for more ideas as to what I can include. Whilst looking I stumbled across Lykke Li's video for 'I Follow Rivers' which includes a few ideas I quite enjoy.
The first being the idea of using a tracking establishing shot. I like this as it's much more interesting than a still establishing shot and, in this video in particular, keeps the action going rather than stopping still completely. The way in which it fades into the next shot also keeps the action going. This is something I will definitely include in my own video as I can include this just before the tracking shot in which my actress touches the leaves in passing.



Towards the end of the video, there's a shot of the two characters in the video reuniting and the content is shown to be quite intimate. Both seem desperate to be close and together and this is something I could include in my own video - the idea of getting close together but nothing coming of it.