Final video

Editing.

Just an update on what we have done and what we have left to do on the editing front.
Today we finished editing the start and the end. It all looks really good and we are very happy with it.
However we still have a very big gap in the middle which should have the memories in it. Hayley and Christina are going to edit the memories. We have filmed the park scene but we need to do a lot more filming of memories as at the moment it looks like the only memories that they have of the relationship that they were supposed to of had is just them one day in a park.
We have planned to get a lip sync of the whole song from Waq. so at the end we will be able to fill in any gaps with him singing.

car break sound effect

this is the sound we are going to use for the car breaking at the start of the film.

http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/vehicle/crash/car-brake-crash-04.wav


It was really hard to find the right sound that didn't sound comical or that wasn't too loud or unrealistic.

Photo Edit.

Here(to the left, the picture below is the before image) is a rough idea of how i think we should edit the memories. I edited this image on photoshop. I made the contrast as high as it could go and slightly increased the brightness. I also increased the saturation a little bit to make the colours much brighter.

However it will be difficult to edit the part in this scene (in the picture) when the camera pans across to the left to show Waq standing against the tree, the question is is this going to be a memory or the present tense and will we have to change the colour settings for this part? and therefore will we have to blend it into the same part.

colour idea

this is the effect we are trying to create-the first 3 seconds of this video-on the boat.. but this effect was probably not intentional and it was probably just the brightness of the day.

color edit idea

For the memories i thought it would be a good idea to make it look different by editing so that it is obviously a memory and not in the present tense.
here is an example of a video i found on you tube thats edited some mountains and made them look less real and very colourful and bright.

Images of what Howie Day looks like-should Waq look like him or not?

Pub found

After asking several pubs in cambridge it became apparent that it would be very difficult to be able to film inside as a lot of the pubs that I went to was funny about bringing a camera into them and said that we wouldn’t be allowed. It was also hard as it had to be in the day and a lot of pubs don’t open until the afternoon. I finally went to ‘The Man on the Moon’ in cambridge this pub said we would be able to film on their benches outside, which was very useful. this pub is also good as it is in a easy location to access from college and we should be able to get there and back in the time we have designated to film this part. we will buy a few drinks from the pub and then just film as many shots as possible of them drinking them. we may have to use water in the shot glasses and apple juice in the beer glasses.

this is another video with memories. but it is different as it uses the fact that she is hurt first.

Idea for the drinking scene

After watching the film 'Loaded' on the weekend there was a part in it where the main character was snorting lines of coke. During this scene the cutting and the editing was really fast and snappy, it gave the impression that he was doing a lot of coke really fast, it also gave the impression that it was from his perspective as it was unclear and the main focal point was the snorty and the coke. I think that it would be a good idea to use this in our drinking scene, to give the viewer the impression that the boy has drank a lot so is obviously not going to be fit to drive, instead of just filming him drinking a pint slowly, we could maybe film him and the girl drinking shots (by this i mean water in a shot glass :P) over and over again, we could maybe do a couple of shots from the perspective of the boy-looking at the girl and seeing her getting more and more drunk and laughing making the boy looking dizzy/wasted and maybe add a slightly delusional, with the girls picture having a shadow and lots of her to give the impression of how drunk he is.

Howie Day-research on the man!

Howie Day is an American singer-songwriter born January 15, 1981 in Bangor, Maine. Unlike most solo performers who perform mainly with just an acoustic guitar, Howie Day uses various foot pedals to enhance his playing and "loop" chords. This "looping effect" allows him to build up a song by playing rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar, and even tap on his guitar to produce a drum sound. When the whole process is complete, it sounds as if a full band was on stage. Howie Day also uses this process on his voice, harmonizing with himself. The whole process is done in front of the audience in real time as opposed to pre-recording--a common misconception among audience members seeing Howie Day for the first time.

Idea

this is a very clever video about a car accident, obviously we wouldn't be able to reenact it as it would cost a lot of money and a lot of equipment would be required but we could get some inspiration about it being in slow motion or something



Cold play-The scientist

inspiration

Another video that has a twist at the end is Sheila by Jamie T-in this video you realise the girl he is singing about is actually dead- like the idea we are using in ours.



Britt

Music Video inspiration

What hurts the most - Rascal Flatts

This video shows the story of a relationship. it shows flash backs of the memories that the boy and the girl shared together. You can tell that they are flashbacks because the contrast is a little higher and the camera angle for the flashbacks seems to be different to the present story. i think we could use this idea for our flashbacks to make it obvious it is from the past and not part of the present story.

This music video uses a twist like ours of someone dieing at the end however this story is told from the girls perspective. I think that using some acting in the middle of the video works well as it helps the viewer realize what the story is about.

This video shows a boy and a girl, it shows their relationship as memories and then in the present the boy dies in a car accident. I feel that this video is good, but could be improved as there are some parts that look old fashioned and cheap.

The main thing that I liked about this video was how it showed the difference between past and present tense. Last year I experience some difficulties when editing my Thriller project, as we used a lot of cutting between present tense and flash backs the audience got very confused about what was actually happened, to resolve that we changed the past to be black and white. In this music video the present tense is almost normal but slightly brighter, the past has a very high contrast and it looks a lot darker and more distorted than the present, there is an obvious difference here between what the girl remembers and what she actually has. I feel that it would be good to be able to do that in our video to show the difference between what is actually happening and what the boy is looking back on once he has killed girl 1.

Animatic - First minute and timeline details and planning for ending

This is the first minute of our music vid in an animatic. we chose the first bit because we knew the what the intro exactly was and also the bit after is an example of the sort of memories, so is a good example of the rest of the song, apart from the end.

our video is broken into 3 parts, intro, memories of the bf gf, and the end wherew they argue and we conclude from the car accident.

We drew out a timeline of our song. The song is just over four minutes long, we broke the song up into an introduction which last for 22 seconds and then into the verses which lasted between 22 seconds and 30. We then decided when the end started and timed that. By doing this we were able to see how long we would have for each part of the story line.

We then discussed what would be needed for the ending. To start the boy and the girl would have to have an argument. We hoped to shoot this in some ones house, so that it would be possible for the boy to storm out. The girl would have to be wearing a bright colour, maybe red or yellow, so that the person watching immediately recognises her when the camera zooms out at the very end to reveal what the boy has hit. The boy and the girl must be wearing the same clothes in the argument and in the car accident.

Research

After we had our initial pitch we searched the band on youtube and found that the band have already made a music video that has a lot of likenesses to our idea.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MxJCn8lk5k

Initial Ideas

Most of the songs sound very similar and we were very disappointed with the overall selection of songs. However we felt that track nine had the most potential to be a music video. As on first listening we could immediately think of a rough story line from the lyrics and the music.


These are the lyrics-

It's not that bad
We could have died
Chalk it up to being young
Can you prove it was me?

No morning drive
No blurred headlight
from the corner of my eye
If only you were here right now,
you'd tell me...

Wouldn't it be somethin' if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin' in your way
Wouldn't it be more than livin' in your wake
If you and I would ever cease to be

Yeah...

Your summer dress
A late down pour
and how they caught us on the stairs
That silent song you'd sing to me
keeps singing...

Wouldn't it be somethin' if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin' in your way
Wouldn't I be more than livin' in your wake
if you and I would ever cease to be

No, my love
Hold on

We bend, I break
You fall, we scrape
I blame it all on being older now
I'm still singing...

Wouldn't it be somethin' if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin' in your way
Wouldn't I be more than livin' in your wake
if you and I would ever....yeah
if you and I would ever cease to be

Yeah....