Editing Software

After filming my music video I am now in the post production stage, therefore with the footage that I have I need to edit it in order to make the finished video. Firstly as I want my video to be in black and white with slow motion and reverse effects on it, I need to use the Programme Adobe After Effects. This programme is easy to use and if I need any help then there are many tutorial videos on YouTube. After affects will enable me to create the music video I vision as I can use this programme to enhanced my video. After using After affects I will further edit my video in Adobe Premiere.

 
The affects that I used in after affects included making a rain effect, this I had to learn to do by watching YouTube tutorials. The way I found to create the rain was to use the dissolve tool and play around with it in order to get the correct consistency and length of rain. I then had to change the colour of my footage to black and white, but to make sure that it wasn’t too dark or too light I changed the levels and brightness.

Furthermore I used After Affects to manipulate the time of the video, this included making the video slow motion and playing the video in reverse. This too I learnt from YouTube Tutorials. It was easy to manipulate the time I just had to left click on the footage click on time and then change it from there.

Once I had edited my footage I started to edit the music video in Premiere. I did this by having two sets of footage, the footage in reverse and the footage in normal order, I then picked the edits I wanted to use an cut them down. As some of the speed of the edits were not slow enough I edited the speed by highlighting the footage, right clicking it and editing the speed/duration, most of the footage is at a 25% speed, where as others may vary depending on the type of clip. Then to edit the clips and shots I used the cut tool and placed the clips in the correct order.

Then to edit my photos and to create my magazine advert and digipak I used PhotoShop. I used this to edit the photos such as turning them into black and white, manipulating the levels and brightness and making the images symmetrical. I also used it to add in text such as the album title and album information.

All of the Programmes that I used were easy once I had learnt what I needed to do.

Raw Footage

This is most of the footage that I collected when filming. This short video includes the main parts of the footage I captured. I will edit it this to make my video, however this footage has already been shot in slow motion due to the camera I used, but I may want to slow this down even more when editing.

Health and Saftey

In order for the filming of my music video I had to check health and safety and therefore fill out this Risk Assessment form, so I could avoid and health and safety issues.

Actor Release Form

Before I started filming I made Sure that my actor had signed this form, as this is what happens in industry in order to avoid any difficulties or issues.

Pictures of Location and filming

These are some pictures of what the location looked like and some photos to show how the video was filmed. 

A week before filming my video I made checks that the mise-en-scene was correct, allowing me enough time to fix any issues. I found that this white cotton dust sheet was not correct as the white meant that the water could not be seen and it was absorbing all water.

To solve the problems I used this blue plastic sheeting, as the water came up clearer and it didn't absorb any water. Also with it being blue this is not a problem as when I change it the footage to greyscale it comes out grey.

Now on the day of the shoot, before filming I am giving my model, Georgia directions of what I want her to do. 

 

These are key images of when I was filming my video. They show the variety of shots that I wanted to capture and how the equioment was set up and what the location looked like.



Animatic

After making my story board I made this animatic to go with it, this will show my idea better as it presents the shots to the music. This will help me to know what my final product should look like.

Story Board

Before filming my music video I made a story board, as this will act as guidance for when I'm filming and editing as I will know what shots to use and where to use them.

Story Board by

Analysis of song Lyrics

After contacting the Muse for the use of 'Feeling Good' I decided that I would look at the song lyrics and analyse them, to understand their meaning. After doing this I feel that they relate to the concept of my video.

Contact with the band

As I am using the song 'Feeling Good' covered by Muse, I emailed the band in order to gain permission to use their song in my coursework, unfortunately I have not received an email back but I will still use this song. Here is the evidence of my email.

Equipment Choices

The camera that I have chosen to shoot with is the Canon XM2 Camcorder, I chose this camera because I felt that this was the best camera to use in order to capture the footage that I wanted. This is because this camera has a slow motion record setting on it, and I want my video to feature slow motion aspects therefore I will use this setting. I will also need a tripod for the camera to sit on as it is too heavy to hold whilst filming. Furthermore as I will be doing a photo shoot I will use the Canon 550D as this camera is easy to handle and is also of a good quality as it has 18 megapixels therefore being able to produce photos of a better quality.

Props List

Here is my props list, Before filming my music video I created a props list in order for me to know what things I will need to include in my video. I do not have many props due to the simplicity of my music video.

1.       Water

2.       Long Plastic sheeting

3.       Black heeled shoes

4.       Black Wet look leggings and black vest

 

Artist styling/costume planning

On this Prezi I have shown and explained the costume that will appear in my music video.

Final Magazine Advert

After evaluating my magazine advert draft I improved it, such as in my final draft I removed the Facebook and Twitter logo, I decided this as they added colour to the otherwise black and white advert which has been the house style throughout all of my products therefore I removed this and added the record labels logo instead.

Magazine Advert Draft

Here I have created my magazine advert, this is the first version that I have made, it will most likely be improved once I have gained feedback. I created it in photoshop and I used the front cover of my digipak as the main image in order to advertise the album. I also included common things such as reviews, release date and information about the album. As well as including social networking logos in order to appeal to the audience through another medium.