Editing Day 1 Footage:

Begining Editing: (28-11-2012)
The image to the left shows Charlie who is doing the performance element of my music video. I have chosen charlie as he fits in with my target audience due to him being the same age and has a similar sort of look. Charlie has an earring- and as i have established in my audience research many people who are my target audience are attracted to piercings and tattoo's.
I have dressed charlie in a plain top and black hoodie so that he can stand out against the red projection over his face. The plain costume also ensures that the audience's eye isnt drawn away from the lip syncing which is importnat to the ares of the vidoe of which it's shown.
I have filmed Charlie in a medium close up so that you can see his mouth syncing in time with the song when these shots are shown- as audience feedback tells me that viewers believe the performance element is very importnat to the overall outcome of the video.
I filmed the performance elements in the theatre of Wyke- where i was able to put a red coverage on the projector in order to put it onto Charlie to symbolise the song and video is based around the themes of love and danger. I then uploaded the clips that i filmed (on the 27th-11-12) onto one of the editing machines and began renaming the clips so that i knew which was which. I also filmed all the red performance shots in grey (as shown below) which is symbolic of the stars and constellations sung about and shown in my video. I will then either merge the two together in the video- or just use one colour. This is something i need to decide when i am editing later on.

Thursday 6th December:
Today I spent my lesson on the editing suite. I have already uploaded the clips onto the software that i am using to create my video- so this lesson i made a start on fitting the lip syncing elements of the video to the song so that it fitted in with it. Ihave never edited before and therefore i needed to learn how to do this. All that needed doing was to cut the clip by dragging the length of the video to the place you want it to start and end in order to create a clip of the right length. I then found the point in the song where that specific clip fit and dragged and dropped it onto it. Once this had been done i turned the sound off from the clips that i had filmed so that the only audio the audience will hear is the soundtrack that is being lip synced to.

Tuesday 11th/Wednesday 12th December:
As i haven't begun filming my other shots for the video yet due to timing and availability i have begun editing the shots that are already uploaded onto the editing suite. Over these past couple of days i have altered the brightness and contrast in order to make  the opening time lapse more bright and clear to show i better time difference and also changed the opacity. Because i filmed 2 seperate elements of the performance- one with a grey light and one with a red light i have overlayed them with each other on the editing suite and turned down the opacity on each of them to create a ghost like image for the performance element. This is relevant to my music video as the main male character is trying to find ways to be able to communicate and contact the female he is in love with- that we later find out is dead. The ghost like performance element relates to this as the only way the main male character can be reunited with her is to kill himself also- which he does at the end of the video. The red and grey/black lighting of the performance element symbolises the danger and passion in the video which is why i have also brightened up this shots to highlight and exsentuate this.

--I planned to film in the Christmas Holidays however all cameras were booked up, therefore filming will resume when we get back in the January term.--

Filming Day 1:

Tuesday 27th November 2012:
I booked the theatre space from 12:40 to 1:40 and used Charlie Banks and Harry Owen to help film the 'performance shots' that are in the video. I wanted to use the theatre as it has a large projector in the room that i could use to ceratre the red lighting over Charlies face when whe was singing. This symbolises danger and love and passion which are the key themes within my video.
Harry helped to do the audio that Charlie had to sing along to which ensured that the time was correct and the lip synching matched up to the song itself.
I filmed all of the shots using a tripod and the HD camera, i chose to film them in medium close up to show the emotion in the performance and to ensure the audience can see Charlie lip syncing.
I had to re shoot several shotsd due to bad timing and getting the lyrics wrong and I also decided to re film them in a grey lighting which is alternate to the prior red one i had shot.
The grey is symbolic of embptyness and lack of feeling in the character within my video's life.

Shot List

Shot Locations

Day-
-Tree’s/Wooded Area.
-Train Station.
-Graveyard.
-Running Down Street.

Night-
-Trees/Wooded Area

Other-
-Theatre

Risk Assessment

Time Lapse For Video

In my music video I want there to be a time lapse showing the transition from night to day. In order to do this I dowloaded a 'Time Lapse' app for the iPhone, the app then takes a picture every 15 - 60 seconds for as long as you need it to in order to create the time lapse video of all the images combined. I decided that as I wanted to show the day turning to night I would film from 3:30pm onwards, and eventually stopped the recording at 5pm when it was dark enough to see a clear difference between the starting and ending point when looking at the images. I wanted the image to look like it was in the POV of someone laid in a forresty area on the floor, therefore that is why i have arrange the Mise En Scene in the way that I have. In order to be able to get the best results with the video- I also had to ensure that the weather was appropriate, as I believe the passing by of the clouds shows a good relation to how much time is going by.

Animatic

Completed Storyboard.

Planning So far (Storyboard)

This image shows how far I am up to with my shots and storyboard. I have finished the video in the shots shown on the image, however I need to refine them and work out how I can use cuts into different camera angles to make the video more appealing to watch. I believe that rhythmic editing is an important aspect of my video as in looking at videos of the same genre many artists have also used this technique- so I need to work out the shot lengths based on this, which I will do by producing an animation of the video so I can see how well my ideas will work. Another thing I need to develop before i shoot my actual video is that this involves no element of performance. This is because I did more extensive research of my target audience after the actual production of my storyboard- I then discovered (as shown in the previous post) that my target audience find the element of performance to be a very important aspect within the video, therefore I will re-draft parts of my storyboard and put the alterations into the animated video plan of the music video that i'm going to produce.

Target Audience Looks

Target Audience: