Editing The Music Video

Editing The Music Video

Here is a screenshot of our beginning process of editing the music video. We started off by taking the first parts of our footage and adding them into the video column in Premiere Pro whilst having the audio for the song alongside it. We only used basic editing skills at this point because we could make it better later on, once we collected all the footage.

            

 

Third Day Of Filming

Third Day Of Filming

Today we filmed some more footage for our music video. As a group, myself and Michal gathered together a few people who were willing to be in the video and travelled to Southbank in Central London; there we were able to get some footage from all different locations and Sam took up the opportunity to dress like a girl in a public place. We managed to get a lot done in regards to the narrative of our video as we had enough people to turn our video into a story, even if it is a story that people aren't supposed to take seriously. In the future, we are planning to go to various other locations in order to film, and will work on different costumes - on this day we changed the costumes so that they were different from the way they were before, however, they still worked well because of the genre of music we have chosen.

Second Day Of Filming

Second Day Of Filming

Today we went out and filmed some more footage for our music video. We went to the same place we went to last time because we had not filmed enough footage, and plus we did not have the actors that we had today. Sam, who used to be in our group last year, returned in the flesh today but not as a man; rather as a woman. We used the blonde wigs we had purchased previously for him to wear in the video, and I did his make up. He wore a black dress and some sandals along with a necklace. Despite this being different from what Michal was wearing (Green Day t-shirt to stay within the pop punk stereotype we're aiming for, red flannel shirt and a beanie hat), it went well because we were trying to make Sam look as silly and as amusing as possible, but still focusing on the mise-en scene also. Today we grasped the concept of a narrative to have; we gathered together a few ideas  and created a basic love story between Michal and Sam that we can expand on later. We also had Charlie in the video playing his bass guitar. We made sure that he dressed similarly to Michal, and his hair style was usefully appropriate too. Later on we'll get more guitar shots and come up with more ideas to add into our narrative.

First Day Of Filming

First Day Of Filming
Today was our first day of filming. We decided to start filming more simply with the close ups of Michal and then a few clips of him lip syncing the lyrics to A Song About A Girl. We had his costume ready previously, so we made sure he looked appropriate for the shots today by dressing him to fit the genre of music we had chosen in order to endure the mise en scene.
The next time we film we will be using other costumes we created for other characters and then film a few band scenes. We'll also work on other locations we can use for this video.

Collecting Costumes

Collecting Costumes

The other day we went shopping in order to find the costumes we needed for our music video. We had a rough list of what we needed in terms of props and costume, so we took that into account when we went shopping. We bought a couple of blonde wigs and then some hair dye along with some hairspray. This will be useful to use for Sam & Michal's costume. Costumes are vital for a music video because they help with the mise en scene. 

Here are the items we bought to use for the music video:
Blonde Wigs x2                                                       Hair Spray/Hair Chalk

                                                         




 

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Here is the Risk Assessment sheet we completed in order to establish the possible risks when we film for our music video.

Animatic

Animatic
This is the Animatic for our music video of "A Song About A Girl". Myself and Michal drew the images on our storyboard from clips of our music video, then I photographed all of the images and edited them together in Premiere Pro along with a selected part of the audio from the song. This was a great way of planning what we were going to film and who was going to be starring in the music video.