Final Music Video

Reasons behind changing ideas..

The original storyboard we had was completely different to the final music video posted. In the story board we had a lot of adventurous scenes needed to be filmed, which we didn't have the acting skills to do, time to do or places to do. Therefore during filming we realised this and decided to just film as much as we could, but along with some other 'on the spot' ideas any of my team had. For example, we originally had numerous muggings, and a scene where a girl finds the balaclava and throws it in the bin. However, the original actors we had in mind weren't available on the day of filming so we had to cut that bit out, and replace it with some of the 'on the spot' ideas. Some of the smaller scenes we originally had also had to be cut, which didn' make a difference in the short run, but when a few more had been cut because they didn't look right i started to notice there was a lot of gaps that needed to be filled. We had filmed a lot of bloopers and funny scenes of the day of filming which i had still marked up but dismissed them, so i decided to go back and look if any of them could fit in with the storyline. For example, there is one of the main actor messing around and jumping out of the camera man, so i added that in to emphasise the control the balaclava had on its wearer. Some of the on the spot ideas came in useful in filling gaps in footage also. One of these being when we filmed the view of the traffic, we had the idea of filming the actors feet from behind walking up the stairs, which could then be sped up in the editing phase.

Below is a clip from my music video which shows some of the bloopers being used, and also the clip of the feet walking from behind.

Overcoming Editing Problems

When looking back at our recorded footage, i realised that the only footage we had of dean putting on the balaclava didn't look right. We then tried to make the music video without it included but realised it didn't make sense as people who watched it wasn't sure how he got the balaclava on. We came up with the solution of playing the clip of him taking off the balaclava in reverse so it looks like it's him putting it on then leaving.

Another problem we had during editing the footage of the actors singing the lyrics all looked the same and because they were filmed against the sun, you could't see the miming properly. To overcome this, we adjusted the brightness setting to make it clearer. To overcome the problem of them all looking the same, we matched the beat to zooms onto the face. At the end of one bit of miming, the word 'crime' is said after a short pause, so i zoomed into the mimer's mouth to make it look more interesting.

Speed was also a very important part of my music video, and i felt that to get the best looking music video i had to make sure that the beat fitted with what was happening on screen. Therefore certain clips had to be faster/slower to fit in. Below if a video of all the bits of my music video i either slowed down or sped up to achieve the best video i could.

Editing

This clip shows me arranging my clips in the process of making my music video. I shortened some clips to finish it off, along with rearranging the remaining clips to make sure it fitted with the length of the track

Editing- Synching Up.

This clip shows me editing my music video- synching up the track to the video. I started by unlocking the audio track enabling me to move it. I had to guess where to move it, and keep going by process of trial and error. When it was synched up I relocked the audio to stop me accidentally moving it again.

VLOG

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Three Column Storyboard