Music Video

To show the development of our music video, we have edited aspects of our filming stages to show the process along the way and how we have improved. This is done by various music artists to show the creative process due to the fact many of the target audience enjoy this. Example artists that has done this is Taylor Swift (Out of the Woods), Bastille (Things We Lost In The Fire), Shawn Mendes (Stitches), Coldplay (Up&Up) and many more. As we are displaying our artist as a new artist having a Behind The Scenes video allows our artist to become more relatable and familiar to audiences which will build up her artist profile. We have enjoyed the filming and practical element of this coursework and we feel this video shows this. The Behind The Scenes video also shows our trail and error within filming the video and how we have persevered in creating this video.

On our final day of filming we had both the dancers and our artist all together to enable us to film all the shots where they are together. To begin with we filmed the final solo shots we needed of our artist, with our clear plan we were able to complete this efficiently and already had an idea of how we were going to film these shots. Having a specific plan for the last day of filming was really helpful as by planning beforehand we knew exactly what we needed to film and not miss out any footage. We have included more solo shots as we feel some of the dance sequences are too long and wanted to break these up with shots of our artist. Next we moved onto filming the final solo shots of the dancers, as upon editing the footage from Filming Day 5 we realized we had filmed one shot with the incorrect lighting and we wanted to re-film to improve this. Then we completed filming of the choruses where both our dancers and artist appeared. We experimented with how this look by filming a lot o...

To organise ourselves efficiently Ceri and I have created a plan for what we would like to film on our sixth filming session.  Filming Day 6 Plans by Anonymous OnyJTYuF1 on Scribd

Due to the fact we are more experienced in iMovie due to using it for our Preliminary work myself and Ceri have decided to edit our final music video on iMovie. We have gained a valuable insight into using VideoPad, but we both feel that for our video to look as professional as possible we have chosen to edit on the software we are most confident with. As we are already re-filming the majority of the video we can simply import the new footage onto iMovie and edit it accordingly. Switching to this software means we will be able to make the lip synching more accurate and easily adjust lighting if needed. 

On the 8th October 2017 Ceri and I completed another filming session with this time just our dancers. Gaining from what we tried in Filming Day 4 Ceri and I continued to alter the lights when we felt necessary and use the dolly (tripod on wheels) to continue filming. Ceri and I were more wary of filming the dancers as we knew this could be more difficult and possibly create more problems than filming our artist. The filming session was successful, Ceri and I worked through any problems we encountered and filmed shots we were happy with. We did not change any aspect of the dancers dress or makeup as we were happy with the styling originally, as it fits the genre and feel of the song. Similar to when filming our artist we filmed a lot of a shots a couple of times, altering position and lighting each time to create the best shots we could. Operating the dolly was also developed during this session as we tried different methods of using this to create the best shots. This also allowed us...

On the 7th November after receiving our draft music video feedback Ceri and I began re-filming. For this filming session we focused on our artist and filmed most of the solo shots of her. Improving from our draft we filmed much closer, much tighter shots and included more movement within our shots. To do this we used the moving tripod on wheels, a dolly to film these shots, we found this very beneficial to help us create smoother and steadier shots with more ease. This also allowed us to alter the focus of the camera better and to film more professional shots overall. The other changes we made while filming this was the make-up and style of artist. These changes were only slight as overall we were happy with how our artist looked; we changed her eye-shadow slight to create more of a shimmer look and we also did not film her in the same cardigan as last time. After our draft feedback we understood that the cardigan did not fit with what the dancers were wearing and did not fit with ...

Ceri and I have now received feedback on draft video and have understood and taken on board (as shown in blog post Draft Music Video Feedback) and are now planning for final filming dates to make these amendments. Our plan is to split the filming into three more nights, one with just our artist, one with just our dancers and a final night with both. We believe this will allow us to make the most of our time and allow to focus on just filming one aspect of the video, which will hopefully help us complete filming to the best of our ability. This will also ensure that all solo shots of the singer and dancers and then the shots where they both together will be filmed in exactly the same conditions helping our music video to look more realistic. We have also sourced more equipment to aide us with our filming, as as we have learn't from our feedback some of our shots are very static and simple. To deepen our shots and allow for seamless movement in the video creating interest in the ...

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