New Idea?

We recently decided on changing the present time in our video to black and white but we aren't entirely sure! Please leave any feedback and watch the previous edit in the post before, thank you!

Music Video?!

Here is some of our final music video. It is a very rough edit and there are plenty of gaps where we haven't finished the filming.

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Learning Skills in Photoshop

Today we were learning how to use photoshop, we experimented with selecting certain parts of images and then pasting onto a new image and working with layers and effects.

Here is my example:

Photoshop 

Today we were taught the basics of photoshop, e.g layering, transforming and just generally editing images and getting grips to photoshop. This will be extremely useful as we are planning to do a digipack and will be perfect for when its comes to editing our images. 

The beginning of our long journey to editing...PART TWO

We are in the process of editing a fast paced sequence in the narrative to match the beat of our music video. However, because of how fast the beat of the music is we have had to rethink about how our narrative will play out. (screenshot one)

 

Screenshot one

Another struggle we are having is timing the opening shots to the beat of the music, as you can see in this screenshot (screenshot two) that the clips are short and snappy to fit the music but fitting these shots to the pace and still having the rest of the clips to match the beat further on is proving difficult.

Screenshot two

Our original idea wouldn't have enough footage to last the duration of the song when edited to fit the pace of it. Therefore we have discussed how we can fit new scenes into the narrative so that we have enough footage to play around with and are able to edit.

We have decided that we will have our main character mime to a verse of the song to clearly represent to the audience that the focus of our attention is on this main character when listening to the lyrics of the song.

Setting

Location

The image above shows one of our locations that we will be shooting a significant part of our music video in. We believe this to be a good location as the graffiti covered bridge gives a slight urban feel that is hard to establish in rural suffolk which ties in with our artist, Mac Miller who can be seen as an urban artist. It is also quite isolated and remote which could also be used to reflect his emotions. This location will be used for one of our flashback scenes as our male lead visits to relive the times he once had with his partner there. This footage that will be filmed there is quite vital to understanding the narrative within the video so we are pleased that we have found such a suitable location.

We are hoping to film here the coming weekend (Saturday 10th November)

The beginning of our long journey to editing...PART ONE

Today we have begun editing the opening shots of our music video. We feel it has gone better than we had originally anticipated and are rather pleased with the footage we have compiled so far.

We have considered the use of a flashback as our main character opens the door to fit with the beat of the music but we aren't completely sure yet. We are still deliberating. We have been taking into consideration the beat of the song quite a lot with regards to our editing so it flows well and also it applies to Goodwin's theory of the visuals matching the beat of the music.

The Divisions of Labour

We have begun constructing our music video where we have divided the roles of labour between us, Jack and I, equally.
However, Airi (me) has been more dominate with the editing side of things as she is more skilled with Final Cut.
Jack has been more dominant with the direction of the filming and visualizing how the music video plays out.