Our idea of having the black and white clips, contrasted with the ones in colour works really well you can see the change in atmosphere and time straight away, we have added an edit to footage in colour to make it have more of a home video, relaxed feel to it. The effect has given the footage a more of a hazed colour to the clips, something we referenced to in our research. So far I am very pleased with the music video, and I am looking forward to seeing the final product.
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Rough Copy
This is the rough copy of our music video for the song 'Lovers Eyes', we have pratically finished all the editing we just need to focus the last few days of the deadline on the ending of the music video and adding any finishing touches, we are also going to possibly slow down a few of the shots on the beach so our narritive for the music video becomes clearer, at the moment some of the shots are short with a quick pase, if we slow the pace down (not adding a longer time frame) the narrative for the music video will be clearer to our audience, as at the moment they don't all fit the melancholy atmosphere we want them to have.
Our idea of having the black and white clips, contrasted with the ones in colour works really well you can see the change in atmosphere and time straight away, we have added an edit to footage in colour to make it have more of a home video, relaxed feel to it. The effect has given the footage a more of a hazed colour to the clips, something we referenced to in our research. So far I am very pleased with the music video, and I am looking forward to seeing the final product.
Our idea of having the black and white clips, contrasted with the ones in colour works really well you can see the change in atmosphere and time straight away, we have added an edit to footage in colour to make it have more of a home video, relaxed feel to it. The effect has given the footage a more of a hazed colour to the clips, something we referenced to in our research. So far I am very pleased with the music video, and I am looking forward to seeing the final product.
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I took a look at the rough cut and wrote quite a detailed blog entry which for some reason was lost. My main thoughts are that some of the edits and camera moves are a little jarring and that the narrative isn't quite in place yet - you need to edit the images a little more to the track.
ReplyDeleteI would strongly urge you to consider slowing down the footage at the beach; the pace of the song is quite slow and you could develop the atmosphere a little more. I would also look at using slow cross-dissolves between the various shots on the beach to differentiate between these and the colour footage, where the editing can be a little more jarring.
There are a couple of shots during the beach sequence where you have slightly overdone the contrast.
You need to try as much as you can to lose or mitigate some of the camera movement on the beach - slowing the footage down or being a little more selective about this might help. The stand-out shots are the ones which are still; these contrast well with the more urgent colour footage.
I don't think the narrative is quite clear yet in terms of the relationshop between the colour and the black and white footage. My suggestion would be that you shoot some footage of the boy giving the girl a red balloon. Maybe go out one afternoon and shoot something in a park? Or even on the beach, just to create a clear link.
At the moment this is probably low level 3, although with a little polish you could get it higher; to get it into level 4 you're going to need to make sure that the editing links to the tempo and rhythm of the song and that the narrative is clearer.