2. Fast paced.
Sections of our song where we wanted our song to be in time with the music, we chopped so that they would fit in the short space that we wanted them
too and so they wouldn't’t slow the upbeat rhythm of our shots down. There was certain lyrics that were sang in a short quick
way which fit the idea of having short images really well.
Lyrics:
Talking bout the lights, the dirt, the sh-t, that hurts
We're not gonna turn around
We're doing this for good, for worse
The gift, the curse, we're not gonna back down
All I need in this life of sin is me and my girlfriend
Down to ride till the happy end, is me and my girlfriend
All I need in this life of sin is me and my girlfriend
Down to ride till the happy end, is me and my girlfriend
I wanna feel the sun, the waves, the wind in my face
The speed, the chase, na na na
I wanna feel the sun, the waves, just wanna cross the states, making up as we go
That's how's gon' be, young wild and free
Not gonna slow down
Up to the max, until we crush, we're not gonna stop now
3. Filters
We had the idea of adding a filter over the top
of each image as to create a more professional
music video. However the filter we decided we
liked was disapproved by audience feedback.
On some shots it looked good and fit the shot
It was placed on for example the Swaziland shots
but on the shots from the festival it just ruined
the atmosphere and the mood.
We then had the idea to only put filters on the Swaziland section of our video as to make it
seem more cultured. This also made the footage of both the festival and Swaziland become
more obvious that they are not just shot in locations around where I live. That they were
shot in actual foreign places or at real festivals because it made the two sections obviously
different. We then decided to get rid of all filters because it began to make our music video
look to complicated and we decided that a professional music video is not what we want to
Create anyway.
There for we left our footage raw to create the idea of a home video, that the recording device
Has just been paused and picked back up in a different area.
4. Overlapping images
We had a problem where I filmed a
shot portrait instead of landscape, an
example is shown on the right. We
decided that leaving the sides black
would be boring and would confuse
the audience so we used one of our
shots of a crowd and made it opaque
so that it could be seen behind the
portrait shot. We really liked this idea
and to make it less like an accident
we made more shots similar to this
by cropping the sides of them to focus on something unparticular. We also over lapped images
We had that wasn't a full and exciting shot. We added images over something moving fast
paced over a shot of a slowed down image. This kept the flow of the song up whilst making
ourselves a more interesting shot.
This helped us greatly when we began to run out of suitable footage, as it helped to create a
Shot that was similar but a bit different to the other footage we had used.
