Today, 16th October we were told by our teacher Ms Whitman that she admired the wide, group shot of people jumping in and out of trees. This echoes the Sound of Music when The Von Tramp children are playing in the park and amoung the trees.
On the side, we have also taken still photography shots that offer a collage effect to the video. For example, we have chosen girls to stand on tree stumps an pathways whilst holding up decorative signs with coloured hearts and messages that mirror the song's lyrics.
When editing them into the timing of the song by cutting and adjusting accordingly (in order to fit with the timing), this successfully worked out and provides another form of cinematography to the video.
Today we came up with another inventive idea to incorporate within the video. We took the Canon camera in the filming studio, and placed a red gell sheet over the redhead to create a vibrant and colour-symbolic shot. We held up fingers to spell out: L, O, V, E. This footage was then captured onto our Adobe folder where we played around with the sequencing of this shot. As a result, we were very much satisfied with the clever arrangement of this idea and decided to save and keep this for our final piece. The use of shadows and silhouettes against this pink/red background is authentic and traditionally artistic.
Our constructive criticism:
- To focus on more quirky transition shots
- To include more lip synching
