A2 Media Studies

Today Grace and I discovered how to use a split screen which is used in many music videos including Beyonce's - Countdown which we admire. We thought that because we wanted to replicate this editing technique in our music video, we should try and do it before we film and get to the editing stage so that we know what we are doing.  We first had to film the shot against a green screen and then upload it to Final Cut. We then applied the 'keyer' effect which allowed us to add a coloured background on top of the green screen.  Once we had applied the background to our green screen, we had to 'transform' our clip, which  effectively meant we were cropping the clip and then placing it on a area on the screen of our choice .   We then had to repeat this step, twice with different background colours applied to our green screen and positioning the cropped clips in different angles and export this in .mp4 format. This then allowed us to reinsert in to

Grace and I have decided to do a 'recce' and survey our location on the 12th November. On this day we will be photographing the surroundings, the mirrors and glass to see if you can see the cameras reflection and what angles we will need to use. We have decided on a rough filming date of Thursday 23rd November and Sunday 26th November as we would like to film in the evening as it will be dark outside. We have also made some vague decisions on what we would like our performer - Isadora to wear. Ideally for the dance scenes we would like her to be dressed in a black leotard with black tights and nude ballet pumps and for the scenes without any dancing, preferably a dress i.e. a pastel coloured maxi dress.

Grace and I have watched a youtube tutorial on speed ramping. Speed ramping includes speeding up and slowing down a video consecutively to make the filming effective. I would definately like to use this effect where possible in our music video as I think it fits in with the darkness of our song.

Grace and I were thinking about colour-grading some of our shots in our music video to make them more greyscale, therefore I have watched a youtube video, teaching us how to colour grade our shots, which we can go away and practice, to make sure it is perfect when we come to edit our music video.

Over the past week, Grace and I have created a storyboard for our music video. We decided to do this so that we have a clear vision of what we need to be filming and to give us ideas for our location. Now we have planned our shots for our music video, we will begin to plan the location, performers, costumes & props. (excuse the awful drawings)

To make Grace's and I music video more interesting and groovy, we have been looking at effects to put over out shots. We found this particular edit, which adds a light glare to the shot. This is an edit we would really like to use- it fits perfectly with a number of our shots but also the aesthetic's we are aiming to create. 

Another effect which we found was called the 'twitch effect'. Although this effect may commonly be used in a horror or thriller films, we think it would work well in our music video. The lyrics in the music video 'What now' are quite sinister and dramatic at times, so we think the glitch/ twitch effect would amplify the lyrics.