Music Video!

AND HERE IT IS! My most likely finished version of my music video! I hope you all enjoy it!

Wix and it's difficulties

Today, I've been playing around with Wix again, trying to figure out what I can do, and it's limitations. I've tried to focus on completing the "gallery" page, by adding freeze frames of actual footage from the music video, but for some reason, Wix will not let me upload them! I've saved them on to a digistick and going to try again at home, to see if this makes any difference. I'm still trying to get to grips with how to use the site, and coming up with ideas for other pages and the layout. Hopefully over the Christmas Holidays I can sort this out, and then take some photos with the band for the Website.

Lost Costume Photos, FOUND

So before filming started, I had a long conversation between myself and my main girl character, Taylor, about costume ideas. We took some photos, but unfortunately I had lost them, UNTIL NOW!

So I got Taylor to try on some "indie/hipster" inspired clothes that would represent the music genre, and relate to the target audience of the music video, which included patterned leggings, big earrings and charity t-shirts.
Here some of the initial ideas that we thought of:

With these three first photos, I really like the white t-shirt, as it resembled classic tattoo's, which ties in with genre and target audience, but the dark jackets would take away the effect of the music video being set in late summer, even though we'd be filming in November. I liked the leggings as well, as many of my target audience would be familiar with the aztec pattern, and probably own a pair themselves.

But unfortunately, when we paired them together I still felt like the "summer" effect would be a strong, as the costume lacked colour, and was mainly black and white, sometime I didn't want. I also wanted Taylor to stay warm in the freezing temperatures, because if she became too cold, it would show through the film, and again, the summer effect would be lost. Also I didn't want her to become unwell.

After much debate we settled with a light grey hoodie, which would keep her slightly warm, but wasn't dark enough to take away from my desired effect. 

We also decided to add very large gold heart earrings, a small detail, but hopefully connoting that Taylor was in love, due to the heart, and was very happy, as gold is a good wealthy colour. This could also be a "gift" from the boyfriend, which again, could show how the couple are happy; the key emotion I want to convey.

Finally we found these, very bright orange jeans, which completes the outfit! Combined together, the costume looks happy, bright and very summery, as orange is highly associated thorough the sun (Setting or rising) which is hot and bright during summer, and therefore giving the costume a summery vibe!

When filming, Taylor did wear the hoodie during all shots, as the weather dropped considerably during filming week. I still think that she conveys the right emotions though, and feel the grey hoodie takes nothing away!

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Mise en scene in a CAR

So whilst fine combing through my music video I noticed that the "in car scene" was a bit dark, so you couldn't see the strategically placed mise en scene to make my mum's car more of a young boy's car. I placed a rugby ball, several hoodies, a rucksack, a girl's handbag and makeup splayed across the back seats. By editing the contrast and brightness you can now see some of the props I've placed, which hopefully will have the desired effect of suggesting this is Billy's (The boyfriend) car.

And in today's lesson..

I THINK I finished my music video?! However, I still would like to get the opinions of teachers, class mates and non-media students in case there are errors or improvements that could be made. I've just finished editing all scenes colour by saturation, contrast, brightness and tinting orange. Hopefully this is it for the music video, and I'll be uploading a copy of the "maybe finished" version soon. I'm waiting so I can upload it to Vimeo though, because I would like the best quality of footage to be judged, since YouTube cuts down on quality. 
Watch out for the video and please comment your opinions! All criticisms are welcome!

and again!

To keep a summery vibe throughout the music video I've now decided to alter the colour of almost every single shot, I've just tested it out with the 'scenery' shot and I think the effect is great.

The shots, although good, were lacking in colour and vibrance, and to really get my audience in a happy summer mood I've changed the tint, to an orange, and saturated the photo to the maximum allowed, and here is the results!


BEFORE:

AFTER:

Editing againn

So todays lesson I've been tried to add another "light leak" effect on to my music video, but more colourful. I had the same issue with opacity so by changing that down to '35', you're still able to see the footage and the light leaks.

I wanted this effect so that the footage would look more summery and have a happier vibe to the music video. With the light leaks being bright colours such as yellows, oranges, reds, pinks and purples, I'm hoping the audience will feel happier and and 'lighter'. I just want a fun atmosphere, and I think the light leaks will help achieve that.