Re-filming & Re-editing

Filming
I attempted to film with lego but struggled as it became frustrating to get the kind of shots I wanted and it really did not go with my the song at all, therefore I gave up with this idea. However as I knew I didn't have long left, due to my poor time management at filming, I quickly made plans with friends to spend a whole day refilming my entire video. By doing badly the first time around it gave me the drive to want to do well.

This images show me refilming in the park. Before filming I planned out all of the shots that I needed for my new music video, this way I would make sure I had plenty of shots and maybe even too many. Also when it came to the day of filming it meant I could get all of my shots done quickly and I got good quality scenes to use for my final product. As my friends are not proffesional actors they were a little nervous to act infront of the camera, however they did the best job they could and I really enjoyed filming them. The weather did become a problem as it was raining therefore we had to stop a few times so that we didn't damage the equipment.

Another problem was that the autumnness of the park did not quite fit in with the theme sunshine, therefore I chose the name 'Changing Seasons' for the album name to make sure this autumnal look wasn't too out of place.

I also then found some other friends to play the guitar for me and pretend to be the band, I also used them for images for my album covers and magazine advert. If I had, had more time I would have picked some other people as only one of them looked really convincing, this is obviously my fault for not managing my time perfectly.

I definitely knew after this filming that I had filmed a lot more than last time and I had plenty of shots and images to work with for my final product.

Editing

When it came to editing I found it fairly easy as I knew what I was doing anyway, I just needed to edit in a lot more shots and make the video more fast paced. After putting in my track and finding all of the shots I need and placing them into an order, I then moved everything around to make the video a lot more interesting.

As I had used the green screen I had the option of changing the colours on the background to make it more interesting and upbeat.

This printscreen shows the colours all put together in an order, I put them with changing colours to the tracks beat. This makes it look good when the viewer is watching it. I chose these colours because they were autumnal like the theme in the narrative of my video and also in my magazine advert and digipak pages.

In the track, small guitar riffs are throughout the verses, I used this too my advantage by interesting close ups of the band playing guitar to the music, I made sure that I timed it perfectly with the riffs. This is shown in the printscreen where the white images are.

To do this and to do the multi-coloured screens in the chorus, I had to learn how to use the chroma key for the green screen. Once I had learnt it, it was simple to do on every green screen shot. I spent a long time changing the chroma key so that the picture looked sharp and professional.

At the end of the video I used a slow motion effect, to make the ending of the video look cute and romantic to match the theme of the song and narrative of the video. By this I changed to duration of the shot of the couple hugging which made it go slower than the original video.