The music video was animated so the creators had no control over traditional lighting but chose to set all scenes during the daytime to reflect the positive mood and themes from the male character's perspective of cheering up the upset female character, avoiding any nighttime or darkened shots. Some lighting effects were incorporated, including zooming into an extreme closeup of the sun with a lens flare to transition to a new scene and adding a lens flare in the last scene as the sun descends to shine on a seed, brightening the scene to make it seem like the sun is shining.

1. Lighting
As our music video was animation, we had no control over the
lighting in a traditional sense. We did however, choose to set all
of our scenes during the daytime. This is to reflect the positive
mood and themes of the video. Despite our female character
being upset, the story is being told from the perspective of the
happy male character, and is about his efforts to cheer her up.
This is why we don’t feature any shots with darkened or
nighttime shots.

2. Lighting effects
• Despite being an animation, we did incorporate some lighting
effects. For one scene transition we zoom the camera up to the
sun, to the point where it is an extreme closeup. We then add a
lens flare effect as we pull the camera back out to reveal the new
scene. We also use a lens flare later on in our footage in the last
scene. The sun descends down to shine on the seed planted by our
male character. We add the lens flare effect, then brighten up the
rest of the scene while it is present to make it seem like the sun is
‘shining’. We performed this lens flare effect by using adobe
Photoshop.