Tuesday 10 February 2015

FILMING PROGRESS REPORT -J

A great part of our music video takes place in open fields and this alone provides interesting effects in relation to lighting and the colour pallet. The lonely, distant, and largely empty places fits in well with our general motifs and helps to emphasise the protagonists broody look. Also filming in different 






Tuesday 3 February 2015

PROGRESS REPORT - D

So we're a few weeks into editing the video and so far it's going alright. Admittedly we're having some difficulties adjusting to using Final Cut Pro, as for both Jannat and I it's our first time using video editing software (aside from Windows Movie Maker, but does that really count), at the moment we're trying to gather up as much raw footage using a variety of shot distances, and focusing on filming shots to establish the narrative, seeing as so far we've not done much other than filming "Bearded Goth Walks in Field", instead of the story of lost love etc etc.


We also experimented using different colour correction filters, and will incorporate some in order to create a blue/sickly green hue and bring more focus to the opposition between the sky and my breh's silhouette
The top one has more of a green tint to it, reminiscent of some of the videos we draw inspiration from; i.e. 

We'll experiment more with making the video even bluer, and perhaps try to film some more of the shots at earlier times in the morning, (hah!) when the air is wet and there are few people.