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Even more editing

Today after watching through the whole first edit a few times, I started to change a few shots around.

And, after a chat with my teacher, I decided that I need to film a few more outside shots in another place, not just a forest.

I also started to brighten and darken some of the shots that needed to be.

Student example digipak

The video its self is simple, but it edited well and looks very professional.

The digipak that goes with the song, and even includes one of the shotss from the video on the back cover. The colours used on the digipak are bright and colourful, matching the overall feel of their video as it looks fun, which bright colours are often associated with. It also has some hand drawn art on it, showing the artists names. Like the video, the digipak is also quite simple, as its is only really some pictures of the singers, a still from the video and a drawing, but like the video it also looks professional.

What is a digipak?

As well as my video, one of the other things I have to create is a digipak for my song.

A digipak is a style of packaging for a CD that folds up. It needs to include:

• Six panels
• A spine showing the artist, and the Album's name.
• Track list, which is usually found on the back.
• Bar code, also usually found on the back.
• Disk impression
• A booklet, postcard, poster (optional)

Some more editing

I continued to edit my video today.

I have now completed choosing and lining up all the house and forest footage roughly into an order I think works well.

It starts off with stills of her face being painted to the beat of the music for 3 changes, then the footage of her at the window starts. It then cuts back to the face continuing to be painted until finished, then continues with her trying to uncover the window. It then goes on to show her run from the window and cry in the corner, read a book and imagining being outside, another attempt to uncover the window but successfully this time, then she again imagines being outside, it then goes to her trying to open the door and finally going outside, then it shows her running around outside. Through out this it also cuts to a close up of her in the face paint singing.

Apart from a few changes, the editing so far mostly reflects my storyboard/animatic.

I still have some editing to do, I need to brighten and darker some scenes for example.

Starting to edit

Today, I started to edit my footage.

I started with putting the course and mine/the centres number. I then started to line up the four lip syncing attempts on different layers.

After this, I will start to edit the other footage of her in the house, and in the forest. After this, I will start cutting between the different layers.

Capturing footage

Now that the filming is done, I started to capture the footage onto the imacs at school, in order to edit.

Second day of filming

Today was the second day of filming.

We filmed some more in my house, as after watching the footage I decided some scenes didn't look very good. After this, we went to Hainault forest.

I choose to film in Hainault as it's not that far from my house, and is very large and so there is less chance of us being disturbed while filming. I also know of an opening which has some wooden sculptures which I thought would be good to film Natasha with. It also has a meadow next to the forest which I also need to use in the video when she goes outside.

Started filming

Today, I started to film some of my music video. We started off with the lip syncing, which is the longest part of the filming process. This is because for the lip syncing we needed Natasha, the girl who is in the video, to have her facepainted. To do the painting, we got a friend of ours who is good at art to do it. It took about an hour to do the facepaints alone, partly due to the girl doing it being a perfectionist and me needing to keep stopping her to take photos to use at the start of the song. The facepaint shows a cloudy sky with a rainbow.

The finished facepaint:

After going through the actual lip syncing and filming it several times, we moved on to the filming inside the house. We shot on the stairs, where the covered window was, in the hallway for when she sits in the corner, and in the kitchen where the back door is, for when she finally goes outside.

Filming timetable

Here is a timetable of my filming, along with the people, props and equipment I will need.

Moodboard

Inspiration behind the video

Even though my survey gave me the basic idea of the video, I had inspiration from other videos and stories to help create my final idea.


One of the ideas in the video is the facepainting. I got this idea after watching the 100 greatest music video, from the video that got to number 2, Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. He, quite obviously, at one point in the video had a sky scene go across his face. As the song I am using is called 'Under the sky' I thought doing something similar would go well. As my video idea was about a girl who had never gone outside getting the courage to go outside, I could use the facepaints as an obvious indicator that she wants to leave. Right from the start before you know that she dreams of being outside from the paint alone.

The idea of the video being about a girl wanting to go outside from the first time came from the line 'Time to leave'. The emotion behind this part of the soon sounds very forceful and determined, like someone would sound when they are really sure of something. This, combined with the song title, gave me the idea that she was determined to go out, under the sky. From here I thought about the fairytale Rapunzel with the idea of being locked up and unable to leave, showing her 'depression' and wanting to get out of it.



Another music video helped create my idea, Skinny Love by Birdy. The video has a similar feeling to the one I want to create in my own video. I also think the type dress she wears in the video would go good in my own. This is because this type of dress looks old fashioned, and with the idea of the girl in my video never have been outside, the only clothes they would have are old, and the connotations of white show innocence and purity, and these ideas are often associated with children. This will work with my video as the girl is in a deep depression, but wishes to get out, to be 'born again', to start over.

Animatic

Music video Idea

After some research and my survey, I have come up with an idea for the video. Very basically, the video will be about a girl trying to get out of depression, but this idea is disguised.

The idea behind the video is that it is of a girl, who for an unknown reason, hasn't been outside for a while, if ever, but is obsessed with it. She has read about it, and is always imagining about it, but is too scared to take the final step outside. She has trapped herself in her house, like how someone may trap themselves into their depression.

To show this, I will have the girl trying to uncover a window that has been covered, as well as her reading books and imaging what it must be like outside. This shows her trying to get out, she knows she has to but is too scared of what might happen. At the end of the song, she will finally get the courage to go outside, taking her first step to recovery.

The video will also have lip syncing, where the girl's face will be painted to resemble a sky, to further show this obsession and it shows the link between the song, and the video.

The facepaint, her imagination and her reading books of the outside can also been seen as antidepressants, as it is something she does to try help get herself out of her house, or depression.

While avoiding the main answers I collected from my survey, relationships, night and love, I kept still included some of the less popular ideas such as 'glimpse of light', longing, forest, sky, clouds, light, sadness, broken and story. This then makes the video itself not as expected as the common images people think of are not used, while at the same time, it is expected as it using some of the other images it conjures up, just the less popular ones.

The video will also keep people interested as after the first part, the audience will want to know why is she afraid of looking outside, will she ever get over it? I think keeping peoples interest is important for my video as it is about four minutes long, and so if an interesting story isn't involved, it may get boring.

Focus group summary

After playing the song I intend to use to some volunteers, I concluded that:

• They believed it was a good song to use
• The intro is long, but if the video is made correctly this is not an issue
• The song is emotional, and this emotion increases as the song goes on

Some ideas were also given with the ideas of clouds, the sky, pain and desperation.

The results from the focus group are similar to that of the survey I conducted, which means the results from both are reliable as they are shared by many.

The focus group also gave me another chance to edit, and so I have more experience with using the new features on final cut express.

After listening to the song for the focus group one of the girls, Natasha, volunteers to be in the video as she liked the song. So, not only was the focus group successful in that I learned more about whet people like, I also have a willing actress.