Audience feedback continued

THE FINAL VIDEO!

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Viewing on Thursday

This Thursday, my group members and I will proudly be presenting our finished music video. Here are some shots from the sequence for a sneak peak!

Using silhouettes within our video is inspired by avant-garde cinema and other cinematic influences such as films like: Un Chien Andalou and Psycho. However we are working against the supposedly suspenseful and frightening impression of a silhouette and creating other characters with shadows. This is definitely linked into the indie genre that we are aiming to achieve.

More stop motion

A very iconic and memorable line in the song is: 'And there will be love in the bodies of the elephants too'.

Thanks to our creative team member Felicity who does Art A-Level, she presented the idea of having two elephants gradually kiss each other on the trunks and for vertical hearts to appear on the screen.
This was quite a lengthy process to handle yet, thanks to her brilliant idea, we completed this and inserted this into the video's sequence perfectly.

Here is a snapshot of the elephants below:

We used the Sony professional camera that Felicity uses for her Photography A-Level work to use to slowly snap pictures to use for the stop motion.

We used orange background to avoid any unwanted background light, this bright colour also tints the frame as a result.

Positive things to share!

Adding animation and new technology

Having researched the wonders of music videos, particularly from our genre, my group and I came across this quirky and alternative video with hearts incorporated. This gave us the brilliant idea of using our Media Studies classroom to experiment and put the original idea of drawing suns on the model's face with face paint, to replace this with the projector's images. This is really interesting and can be visually thrilling for the audience.

Although this is only linked to the lyrics, this focuses on the creativity and youthfulness of the video.

During our free time and allocated lesson time, we worked on this part of the video.

Spontaneous Work

 As the three of us have discovered our perfectionist ways whilst working on this project, we re-assessed the video as whole once again, and thought it would be really charming to insert a 'LOVE' shot with a girl tying her hair back and this medium close up shot would capture the multi-coloured sign inscribed on her neck. This is alternative and fits in with the young, wild and cultured genre that we are portraying.

 We used felt tip markers to write the powerful word on the back of her neck.

Above is me filming with the Canon camera, finding the appropriate angle and height by panning the camera to estimate the best possible shot. This took me 1-2 minutes to order which I then filmed and directed the actress to re-run the shot 3 or 4 times until the shot looked its best.

Working towards the deadline

Coming towards the end of the production process, we are almost at the end of the editing and now will focus on individual evalutation and audience feedback of our completed video.

Developing the digipak

Applying my ideas creatively towards my final digipak, I have created this useful template to work with.

Team Meeting

Coming towards the end of the creative process before finalizing edits and starting the evaluation questions, we took the liberty to have a very important group meeting to go through the exact shots needed for the music video sequence that are either missing or need to be re-filmed and edited.
Today, Felicity and I filmed with our friend Alex Alter, gaining certain bits of footage to upload to Adobe Premiere.

For example, we completed the planned shots with:
glitter,
number 5 shaped candles
Ribena bottle
'stupid cigarettes'
feet at the edge of the bed
Russian doll shot
and many more

Like last year, from useful filming experience at AS, we feel comfortable on set to experiment and explore new and quirky ideas to incorporate within the music video.

We worked with different angles varying from high shots, low shots, zoom, over the shoulder and more. This enabled us to freely experiment and play with the different types of camera shots possible.

When filming, I used zoom, panning and crabbing techniques.

I feel that today's work demonstrated our positive group work ethic towards the production of the project.