Video Feedback

We asked some people out of our class to watch our music video and give us their opinion on our production

Finished Video

Editing with Adobe After Effects

This video shows Megan editing clips from our music video in Adobe After Effects.

Screen shots of Premiere Techniques

 This is our opening shot. We took footage of Megan smoking and reversed it by ticking the Reverse Speed box under the Speed/Duration option. As well as this we increased the speed to 150% to fit in with the intake of breath heard at the start of the track. We thought this effect would draw the viewers' attention straight from the beginning.

Next, we took a walking shot and slowed it down to 30%  so that the footstep were in time with the track. We also zoomed in to only show Megan's feet so that the viewer feels suspense by not revealing her full identity yet. We also set the opacity to 80% to make the shot look darker and less colourful to convey the dark mood.

We took a shot of Megan throwing some leaves and cut it into five sections. The first two shots show Megan throwing the leaves and them falling in real time, and the third shot is a copy of the second shot and is reversed so that the leaves rise again. We also slowed this shot down to 80% to emphasis what we had done. The fourth shot is the another copy of the second shot which returns back to forward motion and the fifth shot continues to show the end of the footage.The fourth and fifth shot are still at 80% speed, so the overall shot is fitting to the time of the music.

We took footage of Megan twisting the matieral of her dress and cut it up randomly and rearranged them in no particular order to create a jump cut effect. We also sped this up to 300% to create an erractic effect amongst the slower, calmer shots. We also used this effect on the footage with the black dress to create a visible contrast between the two characters. We used a slow panning shot inbetween which pans from the left side of Megan to the right side to symbolise each character as different side of her personality.

Here, we decided to overlap two shots with low opacity, and used a short Cross Dissolve at the beginning to soften the effect of the overlap. The two shots however were very different; the original shot was sped up to 200% and then reversed so that Megan would be walking backwards, whilst the second shot was a zoomed in shot of Megan's eyes, which was slowed down to 50%. The fact the two shots are complete opposites are effective, and also portrays that the dark version of the girl is watching over the innocent side of the girl who is being drawn in, hence the reversed motion.

Video Screenshots

Final Choice for Location

Although our original plan was to locate our video in Borsdane Woods, on the day of shooting, we changed our plan and instead filmed our shoot in Skitters Woods, for practicality reasons, as Borsdane Woods was too difficult to get to with all the equipment. Therefore, as Skitters Woods were much closer to our homes, we found it easier to access the woods and shoot the video there.
The location was a complete success, and worked extremely well with our plans for the video. Here are some photos of the location:

Costume Production

These photos show the process and finished product of the two costumes we need for our video. We bought 2 nighties, one black and one white, as well as black and white mesh. In the first photo is Megan sewing the mesh onto each nightie, leaving a long slit on one side of the dress, which can be seen in the bottom photo. Once successfully attached, we then adjusted the length, and ripped and teared the black mesh for effect, and left the white mesh as it was. We also made two bandages of mesh with each colour, for each wrist.