Following on from my interest in underwater shots, using my actress I filmed a range of different shots, using ranging from close-ups to wide shots, because I want to experiment in order to see where these shots would be best placed within my music video.
Below is some of the shots I filmed -
I really like the extreme close up shots as they give it quite a natural
look, perhaps more like a documentary of my female character: what she's going through, what state her mind is in etc.
In the post-production stage I am going to work on my colour treatment, making the overall colour colder and more blue.
What I need to work on is stability as I thought some of the shots where a little shaky because I didn't want to use a tripod as I didn't feel I would be able to get the angles that I wanted.
The concept of my music video, to the track"Limit to your Love" by James Blake, is the idea of separation and the deterioration of a couple. I did not want to go for a romantic feel as this didn't fit to the song in my opinion. Instead I wanted to create the sense that the female is always ahead of the the male, this is why I have chosen to have lots of running shots with my male character whilst most of the action with my female character is slow and deliberate as she is almost always in control. However to contrast her control I want to create the sense that my female characters mind was in turmoil. My next filming date is centred on creating this idea using under water shots with influences from photographers mentioned in my previous post.
To develop this idea I looked at how other artists with similar concepts have portrayed it. A really good example I felt was The XX's video for the song Islands -
Although the same concept, visually I love how the have differently presented the separation of the couples. At first its seemingly a repetitive dance, however as the song continues each couple and each of the band members become distanced. This represents how relationships fall apart slowly until they crumble entirely, as if you're not paying attention its harder to notice the dancers separating each time the dance is performed.
The use of fire at the end as well helps to symbolise the destruction of the relationships, creating a really powerful symbol for the song.
Symbols are very important, I feel in music video's as they create a tone for the video. For further development I want to create a powerful symbol in my production that is recognisable to the audience why it is there, and what is represents, to enhance my concept.
I'm really interested in the use of water in my music video. I've already got key shots of my character walking round a fountain and walking up to a pond, and I want to develop further this idea.
'Drowning' is a series by French photographer Alban Grosdidier, which features several photographs of people under water. Some seem to accept their fate while other stuggle against the water. I really like this contrast of emotions within his photos.
I really like the idea being submerged under water and would like to try a similar thing with my female main character, both struggling and staying still like these two photographs from the series.
The XX's video Chained, is a an amazing example of how water can be used in a music video effectively.
The idea of being totally encompassed by water is something that I would really like to play around with in my video.
The colour treatment in the video creates a cool almost distant vibe as the blues enhance the vibe. I also really like the strobes of colour, as can be seen in the photo below, as it creates a edgy effect.
My next step is to start experimenting with under water shots and sequences.
On 27th November, our class is attending the Oxfordshire Schools Film Festival. This gives us the opportunity to view other short films produced by local students, as well as share some of our schools work.
There is also a Q&A with Niv Adiri, an Oscar award winning sound engineer, who has worked on films such as Gravity, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire and many more. This is an exciting chance to talk to someone who is literally at the top of their field. In preparation for this, we were asked to think of some questions to ask Adiri.
Because both Gravity and 127 Hours have to craft moments of complete isolation, I think it would be interesting to ask about how Adiri manipulates sounds to get that feeling of abandonment. For example in the scene below, the build and the drops of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds to create a powerful atmosphere -
The way the sound and the cinematography work together create stunning and emotive scenes, leading to other questions such as do you work on the visuals before adding sounds or do they work on them simultaneously,
This will all be very useful for my project, as although I am using a music track, thinking about the way I can use the sound and beat to emphasise my video and key shots and scenes will be a really helpful idea to discuss and think about.
Its important to focus on the whole brief that I've chosen, not just the music video. We had to choose two out of three options:
1. A website homepage for the band
2 A cover for its release on DVD
3. A magazine advertisement for the DVD
I've chosen options 1 and 2. I've just started to think about the website homepage for the moment. Before I began, I looked at artists of a similar genre home-pages.
For example Daughter's homepage is quite minimalist. I like this simplicity, creating a clean and sharp, professional looking website. I also looked at The XX's homepage, again very simple, yet effective as it is the symbol of their band.
What I noticed about all of the bands homepages was that they all have links, whether to social media such as Facebook or Twitter, also links to buy new music and merchandise. This interactive format allows an easy experience for consumers to learn and purchase from the bands. It is essential that I add these links to my own homepage.
I have started to make my website using Wix, a free and easy tool to create professional looking website. Here is what I have created so far-
I have linked Blake's Twitter and Facebook, whilst adding a link straight to Itunes, making it easy for consumers to buy his music. Using another website called Silk I have been able to create these graphic type designs. This makes an interesting and effective design.
Below is some of the images I have created-
What I need to work on is tying this in with my music video, so that I can create a pack of three works that all correlate to each other. Although there is still a lot of work to be done on all of my projects, I'm really happy with the way its turning out so far.
Recently I've been thinking more and more about the different editing techniques, not just colour treatment or overlaying, that I can use within my media piece. Looking for inspiration I found Kings of Leon's - The Bucket - music video.
I really like the use of the split screen and reflecting the clips to each other. I think it fits perfectly to the song, whilst creating an interesting watch.
I love how the multiple split clips give the video some movement, but I'm really interested in the four split screen as I think this would be a really interesting idea for my female and male character, having their close up faces mismatched together. I also really like how the clips reflect. Another good example of this is Katy B's Crying for No Reason where the reflection conveys emotion. I want to try to mix up both the techniques I've researched. My next step is to do some practise filming of my actors, maybe trying out using a kaleidoscope to enhance the effect.
In my previous post I talked about editing a shot for my main task. I have done several experiments with this clip that can be seen in the video below
Before
After
The first of my experiments, at around 2 seconds, is just a simple overlay with minimal colour treatment in order to make it lighter. What I like about this effect is that it gives a very haunting vibe as my main characters face is always staring at the viewer.
Secondly, at around 16 seconds, is again over layed the clips but I slowed each one down to a different speed to create the buffering effect. As the head turns for a second time I added a pinkish colour as it makes it more distorted and brings out the red of her shirt.
My third experiment at around 39 seconds, this time has three overlaying shots, again enhancing the buffering effect and emphasising that movement. I added an embossed effect to the second clip. This makes the clip lighter which I don't really like, however I experimented more with the embossed effect in my final experiment.
The fourth clip has the effect Severe Interfere which dramatically distorts the colours. I really like this effect as it gives it a creepy tone. What you lose in the one is the head turning at different times which I need to work on.
To further my experiments I will be seeing how these effects fit with the rest of my clips and the music I have chosen.
After re-watching Series 4 of Skins I was really inspired by a certain scene with Freddie and Effy where Effy is hiding under the bed -
I found this scene very emotional and wanted something similar in my music video. The connection between the two characters is evident within this seen and helps to make the scene more powerful. This is something I would like to achieve in my piece.
After seeing Silvana DeFrancis photography (seen below) I was really inspired by this clean sharp image, but yet it still conveys emotion and a vulnerability. The enhanced contrast of this photo deepens the emotion and the effect which is an interesting idea to play around with when I start to edit my music video.
When I began filming on the 27th of October I decided to try an do a similar mid-shot. My attempt can be seen below. What I did instead of staring straight ahead at the camera I made my actor turn her head. In the music video this represents her turning away from my male actor and essentially their relationship. The enhance this clip I want to try to do some more sophisticated editing, perhaps creating a buffering effect as she turns her head to emphasise the movement. I will also dim down the colour to suit the tone of my video.
For my music video I will have two main characters seen in the photos below. I have two costumes for each of the characters in my music video and thought I would describe why I chose these and what they mean within the video as costume is a major part of mise-en-scene.
My male main character is a 18 years old. In the first part of the video he is seen to be wearing darker clothes as the mood reflects the tone of the video. In the latter half of the video I chose to have my male character wear a shirt and tie as he is supposedly having just been to work, however I did not want his look to be too clean and sharp as this is all supposed to be happening in his head so chose to have his shirt un-tucked and front button undone in both of the costumes.
My female character, (17 years old) seen below wears similar clothes to my male actor for the first part of the video. Again this helps to reflect the tone, but also I feel this is quite representative of what my target youth audience wears, creating a recognisable character. Her second costume is a white cardigan layered over a white lace dress. This seems to suggest innocence yet I feel with quite an ironic tone as the female character is supposedly toying with the boy and his emotions all the way throughout my video. I am aware that the second costumes for both my characters suggest a wedding vibe however I don't mind this as it again can be seen as ironic as their relationship begins to fail throughout my video.
Before I start to film on Monday I decided to take some photographs of some of the outside locations I am going to use for my music video.
Below is some of the photographs and I will explain why I chose these locations and what I will be filming there.
The pictures above and below show the location for my final scene, when my female character will jump into the water. This location is perfect for this as there's an opening which can be seen in the top pictures, making it a really good place to film.
Below is one of the places where one of the running/chasing scene will happen. The hedgerows create a good frame for the shot, hopefully creating an effective scene.
Below is some practise filming, experimenting with focus pulls. I really like this effect as it gives an extra texture and layer to the shot. The lightening also creates a very atmospheric feel to the shot.
Before starting to film my music video, I wanted to get an idea of people's general feelings towards music videos- e.g. how often do they watch them, what do they like about them.
Here's the questionnaire I designed-
All of the people I asked were aged 17-18, which is my target audience.
For the first question-
20% answered NO
20% answered FAVOURITE BAND
40% answered SOMETIMES
20% answered OFTEN
0% answered ALWAYS
For the second question-
20% answered YES
0% answered NO
80% answered SOMETIMES
For the third question-
10% answered YES
50% answered NO
40% answered SOMETIMES
For the fourth question-
50% answered NARRATIVE
0% answered PERFORMANCE
50% answered CONCEPT
For the fifth question-
50% answered- Seeing the band play their music
10% answered- When the video is funny
20% answered- The Story
20% answered- The interpretation of the lyrics into a video
What I learnt from this research is that it's not always important to have a story in a music video, which surprised me as I thought more people would enjoy these videos. 50% for concept and 50% for narrative is good as my music video is going to be mixture of these two, showing I'm creating a video my target audience will hopefully enjoy.
In order to be prepared for filming it's important to get the pre-production stages right. This also saves on time management as you come prepared for filming.
In order to be able to do my music video I need to ask for permission first from the artist. My chosen artist is James Blake and I decided to post my request straight to his official Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/jamesblakemusic?fref=ts- I was originally going to contact him through his official website - http://jamesblakemusic.com/- but chose Facebook as I think this is a good direct way to contact the artist.
Following on from my Olga Markowska inspiration, I decided to do some test shots using my actual actor for my music video. I found it quite difficult to get the composition right and match different shots to overlay with each other, but in the end I'm really happy with the results.
The video above shows two different shots which I have matched together. One of the shots is slowed down to give the shadow effect. What I don't like is the background and the light switch. In my real music video I will either shoot this outside or in a dark room so you will only see the face.
What I like about the video above is the pan upwards onto the face, I think this creates some emotion within the shot. I put a more grey effect on this video instead of the blue in the above video. Again I would like to play around more with effects obtaining a more grungy effect.
My next step is to look at putting these shots into a sequence.
I recently found photographer Olga Markowska and have found her photo's to be amazing. I found several very inspiring in terms of composition and colour treament. Having already been looking at have a close-up's of my main characters faces, the photos below show what I want to try and create.
Her use of close-ups combined with grungy colour treatment make these photographs feel very intimate and personal which I really love. These kind of shots fit well I think to the mood I'm trying to create with my storyline and song. I'm going to get some practice shots done soon of faces likes this using Markowska as inspiration.
Firstly is narrative based videos. These videos consist of a storyline that closely follows the lyrics of the song. These videos are often very engaging for audiences as it gives a visual to the meaning of a song. A good example of narrative based video is Sam Smith's 'I'm not the only one'
I like this video because of the way it tells the story whilst sticking to the lyrics. Also the use of costume is very effective as the white dress has connotations of a wedding which further emphasises the heartbreak of the character.
Secondly is performance based videos. These focus on the band performing to either an audience or camera. This enables the audience to feel like they are at a gig watching the band live. An example of this is Hudson Taylors 'Battles'
I like this video because it shows actual footage of fans, venues and performances, which creates a personal and honest simple video.
Conceptual videos such as Ok Go 'This Too Shall Pass' create a fun and interesting video to watch
This example, very similar to their other videos, is amazing but holds no narrative, something which might be interesting to try depending on the genre of music I chose.
Below are some brief, rough sketches which shows my initial plans for my music video. It will have approximately 4 scenes each containing differing shot types, movements and locations. It is extremely important to storyboard even simple sketches in order to help with pre-production stages, production stage as you often need to refer back to them when filming your shots and post-production stage as during the editing process you can see where shots are meant to be. The reason I didn't draw them to accurately as my idea is always changing, so my idea may not look at all like this when I'm finished, but it's important to record my development as I continue with my project,
These basic drawings should help me when I start to film my music video
In the early stages of production its important to think about what kind of tone you want to create. In order to do this I have created an on-line mood board
I have chosen quite a dull blue colour scheme, keeping colours muted creates a darker tone to my video. I also have included lots of water in my piece as I want to be an important part of the video. Lense flares would create a really cool effect within the video and would reflect the madness and confusion of my main female character perhaps.
As I continue to develop my music video I want to keep on updating my mood board in order to record my ideas as they change and develop.
In pairs we took inspiration from a music video or short film and tried to create shots which we liked and then go out try to use the techniques they used in their video. We took our inspiration from Mystery Jets - Someone Purer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XILvOrna0RA.What we really like was the editing effects such as layering and also the various colour treatments and flashes of colour or lens flares. As both of us are looking at using similar techniques this was really helpful to gain more understanding of how we can create such things.
Below our several of our own attempts.
These first three attempts I think work really well as we experimented a lot with different backgrounds in terms of our shots. I particularly like the second and third tries as I feel the subtle graffiti and brick layering in the background give it a very urban indie vibe. The colour treatments in each of them are different and we experimented with lots of layering of colour treatments in order to get quite a washed out grungy feeling which I really like.
Here is part two of our experimentation with layering and colour treatment. In the first video we just took a simple medium close-up then changed the colour treatment to what we thought would work well with a flash of red colour. Although we thought that this would be a hard to do, in practise it worked better and much easier than what we thought it would.
The second video we took a medium shot of someone sitting down and then layered a slightly altered version of it onto the original shot. We thought carefully again about our colour treatment and I personal think this was our best attempt. The use of black and white, I think creates a more edgy vibe and almost creates a ghostly shadow behind the actor.
In today's lesson we discussed why audience research is important and how we can carry out our research. We also looked at some examples that I think will be important to share.
First, why?
Audience research is important to carry out so that a creator can make something that people will want to see. A media piece that is tailor made to the audience is undoubtedly more likely to be a success. Therefore you cannot deny that there is a commercial side to audience research. Major media pieces, such as films, spend thousands on audience research in order to make their films so successful because they are made to please the masses and will therefore make more money than a project that has a smaller niche or no market at all. This leads on to another purpose which is to find your target market and therefore you can adjust your piece to suit the market. For example you can find out the age and gender of your probable audience, which will lead to a better project as you have more information to go on.
Second, how?
We talked about many different types of gathering audience research, with the first and probably most obvious being to do a survey or questionnaire asking key questions. For example, for me as I'm doing a music video, I might ask question such as, "Do you think a music video has to have relevance to the song?" or, "Do you like to watch music videos or are they not important?" By asking all of these questions I would hopefully be able to develop my idea to create a better project.
Exit polls are also a great way to get research, it is were you ask people questions immediately after they have done something. For example I could gather a group of people and make them watch a music video of a similar genre to one I was thinking of creating and ask them key questions in order to gather more information. This would be a really good way to get research first hand. Secondary research can also be helpful as you can find stats and polls which you can help form your target audience. An example of an exit poll is available on the British Film Institute website (BFI) where they do exits polls after showing a film to a large audience. Here's a link to their list of exit polls -http://www.bfi.org.uk/film-industry/lottery-funding-distribution/insight-reports-case-studies-audience-research/exit-polls
Focus Groups can be really good way to get specific information from target consumers. A practical way for me to conduct a focus group is to gather people and watch several music video's from the genre of the song I've chosen and ask them what they liked/disliked about it. It would be really useful to me do this with my own production as I go along as it would help me with development.
So to sum up, research is to help a product please/interest/excite the biggest audience it can :)
After giving my presentation on my production I got some really helpful feedback, which should help with the development of my idea.
Firstly was the idea of graphic matching or match cuts where two different compositions or spaces, graphically match. This should give me a really good video in terms of mise-en-scene as it shows I match shots closely. The idea came from two pictures I used my presentation, that created like a sort of path even though they were different locations. I really like this idea about matching shots and was already wondering about doing it in my production. Here's a link to a video showing some match cuts, that I think work really effectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI82hsBrq8w. I think this video shows how match cuts gives videos an interesting twist, which I like.
Secondly was idea's of song choice that would fit well with this idea. One suggestion that I really like was Lana Del Rey's Money Power Glory -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctFNlAn3z3k. I think the slow beat of the song works well with the idea of graphic matching. I think the song I'm going to choose is James Blake's Limit to You Love -
I think this song works well with the third suggestion of matching the action with the beat of the music. As this has a very regular beat I think it would work really well with not only composition of shot matching but all people's actions matching the rhythm of the song, hopefully creating an effective music video.
This is my production pitch which I will present to my class and hopefully get some good suggestions on what I can do to improve my idea. Although I have not got a final set idea, over the next coming weeks I want to do more research and that will hopefully allow me to get a better idea of my final production.
Today in class we looked at 3 different types of music video's and the different techniques they use.
Firstly was OK Go's- The Writing's on the Wall
What we first noticed about this is that fact that it is one continuous edit which is very difficult to do. I like this idea as it makes it flow and look rough around the edges. It was very creative as it continually kept on playing tricks with your eyes.What I also really liked was the use of colour in the video making seem lively and bright.
Another example that I've found of bright colour that works well is Katy Perry's Birthday lyric video (link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYxyd1iSNk) I think the pop of colours in this video really reflect the fun and silly side of the song. Depending on the song I choose, colour or lack of plays a really important part in setting the tone for the video, I will need to think carefully about my colour treatment and use.
The second song we looked at was Hozier's -Take Me to Church
Probably more controversial than the previous example, but it shows a good example of how at first the lyrics and the video don't necessarily match, but actually on reflection do. It is also another good example of how colour reflects the mood, as the black and white highlight the darkness of violence. Its also a really nice example of how you don't need the most complicated range of shots in order to create an impact.
Thirdly- alt-J-Breezeblock
This video I found was the hardest to understand because of the video playing backwards, but it was very successful in challenging conceptions and first looks, as from the first couple of shots you assume the man was in the wrong, but as the video plays on, the story unfolds. I also liked how it took a literal stance with the lyrics as it told like a mini-story.
Another music video that follows the lyrics literally is Riptide by Vance Joy. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k) Although this video however does not tell a story as such, I still thinks it's really effective and different. I could definitely take this stance with my video as I think it fits with the indie/alternative genre of song that I want to take.
In our exam-based lessons we are starting to look at how youth are being represented in films, and the common themes in them. I chose The Perks of Being a Wallflower as I thought it was a really good youth film and also book.
Here's the clip that is linked in the presentation-
I chose this film as I think it represents youth well as everyone has got an issue or a problem that they are having to deal with and it doesn't sugar coat these issues.
This week in class, we looked at a more controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Michael Moore. Moore is an American filmmaker, director and political commentator. The documentary looks critically at George W. Bush, the War on Terror and the links between them. It also looked at the media coverage of these events. Intense controversy was caused as this is a very one-sided biased opinion on these events, however it is still the highest grossing documentary of all time. Around 2 million copies were sold on the first day of release.
The main themes I found when watching the documentary where -
Racism
Injustice
Distaste for power combined with his speculations
Political issues
Fear
Death
These are very sensitive issues and it is important to discuss them with care as many were affected by what happened.
Technical Analysis
To try to convince the audience on his opinion Moore uses several persuasive techniques:
Extended Edits- The use of longer cuts seems to emphasise the scene. Either it makes it uncomfortable or awkward as Moore keeps cut long, doubt creeps into an audiences mind about what the person has said. It can also make emotional scenes more intense. This all persuades the audience to his point of view.
Selective Cutaways are used to emphasise the perhaps falseness of statements made by people in power and then the reality of the situation. This has impact because the audience can see the unreliability of governments, making it a persuasive technique.
For example near the end of the documentary Moore focuses on the bid for oil in America. Moore uses cutaways to show how Government said that the people will profit from the oil, however what Moore shows portrays something different-
From around 1minute 30 we start to see Moore's cutaways disprove what people are saying making it very persuasive for an audience watching, convincing them on Moore's opinion.
Emotive Scenes- These are used to shock the audience, persuading them again to agree to what Moore is saying.
Other techniques he uses as satirical music, the way he represents people he disagrees with and the juxtaposition between shots, for example Bush laughing and then shots of war and the devastation in Iraq.
I found the documentary very interesting to watch as it informed me of information I was unaware of, however as I've said it is very important to be objective as it is someones opinion argued incredibly well, by using evidence that fits to their argument.
Documentaries can often divide people's opinion. Some say we shouldn't show certain issues, whilst others argue that it's important to learn about what goes on in the world.
To explore this issue about censoring what we see, in class we watched the documentary The Boys Whose Skin Fell Off (2004) (I'll link it at the bottom of the post). It's about the last 4 months of 36 year-old Jonny Kennedys, a sufferer of EB (Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa), life. This condition causes skin to tear and fall off at the slightest touch. He had this condition his whole life.
In the documentary there are lot of topics explored, some which could cause controversy:
1. Religion
2. Euthanasia
3. Family Issue's
4. Community
5. Attitudes towards death
I found this documentary very interesting and moving as it shows someone in a lot of pain, however he stays positive and continues to live his life. I also think as a society that we need to explore these topics as it's important to not ignore the difficulties and challenges that can happen. I personally think that this documentary was important to make as Jonny Kennedy wanted to make it to raise awareness of the condition, which before watching, I'd never heard of. It also promotes the charity he set up DEBRA -https://www.debra.org.uk/. for those with the condition.
Having just received our A2 briefs for our coursework, I thought it would be important to talk about the top 3 that I am really interested in doing.
First- A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
1. A website homepage for the band
2. A cover for its release on DVD
3. A magazine advertisement for the DVD
I really like this idea as I love the idea of combining both music and the filming together. Also I think it is a really good chance to be creative with your work. I have researched on YouTube some really good examples of A2 music videos as well as actual music video's.
Here's a really good student music video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1o-mhtrFT0. What I like about this is the different range of shots and how it tells a story.
A professional music video I am really loving at the moment is Lana Del Rey's West Coast - I love the mix between handheld more naturalist shots to the spinning camera movement making it dreamy. I also love the colour treatment of black and white as I think it captures the mood of the song really well. The video suiting the music is really something that I will focus on if I decide to do a music video.
Secondly- A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:
1. A poster for the film
2. A radio trailer for the film
3. A film magazine review page featuring the film
Having not seen many short films, I have less idea's for this brief, but again I think it allows you to be really creative which is what I like about it. I again did some research and found a really good short film called Awake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_KYiNXHrks. I like the really clean cut shots of this piece and you could tell that they had really thought about mise-en-scene: something that I can apply to whichever brief I choose.
And finally- An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes,together with two of the following three options
1. A radio trailer for the documentary
2. A double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary
3. A newspaper advertisement for the documentary.
I think this brief is probably one of the hardest to get authentic, which is probably why I find it appealing. In class we are going to be looking at several documentaries and the issue of censorship, so I will feature one that we have looked at in my next post.
Today in class we were asked to do a mini-review on last years Media Studies course and our final productions as a sort of base point. This will hopefully be able to show how far I have come at the end of the A2 course :)
First of all, this is my groups final production - The brief was to create a opening sequence of a new film.
The Creation and Production Process-
The base plot was created by the director, Katie Bannock, and throughout both the pre and production stages we adapted and changed the idea to suit locations and other suggestions. This resulted in lots of changed storyboards which meant that some shots we edited out or changed in the post-production stages.
Production took quite a long time as we found it difficult to get the correct shots without taking about 20 per each scene, but we wanted to make the editing processes easier but getting perfect shots.
The Challenges and things that Worked Well
Challenges include working with new technology and time management. We tried to use a Steadicam as we wanted to created floating shots within our piece, however found that it was incredibly hard to set up properly and probably in the end made filming much more difficult as it accentuated the wobbliness of certain shots. Time management was an issue as as I mentioned filming took ages to which meant that we had to set up more times to film, meaning we had less time to do post-production and meant that it was tight to get it finished on deadline, but fortunately we did :)
What we did well was I think after-effects as we managed to take out most of the unbalanced shots such as the one at the beginning of our piece and also allowed us to colour correct our piece, resulting in the right mood I think for our production. Sound also worked well as it again added to the effect of the piece and created an unsettling feeling with the use of the lullaby.
If you have any question about our piece, please feel free to ask :)
In the post-production stage I am going to work on my colour treatment, making the overall colour colder and more blue.
