Planning for footage

As i have deleted a lot of footage i have many gaps therefore i need to fill them, as i mentioned in previous blogs i have been brainstorming ideas that connect with my vision. i wanted a symbolic item that represents love but can be destroy as that is what happens to "jazmine" relationship.

I had chosen a rose for this item as its elegant, a representation of love and a new object /idea that i haven't seen used in music videos to date. My idea was for the rose to have pretty shots with closes ups and different angles an then the idea of destroying it came into my head as it will help the audience understand the narrative,

Black and white effect

majority of my footage has the black and white effect, before the effect the original color does look nice but they different shots makes the color balance vary therefore its not consistent. however with the black and white effect the colors are mutual and if needed i can play a round with the tools to make some shots darker or lighter then others so they fit well.

Old footage compared to new

 As you can see there is a huge difference between the two snapshots, the color, angle,focus, footage and appearance is 100 times better in the black and white clip. even thought i wanted red to be connected i found that it doesn't help the footage as it looks unclear. even the angle im standing at makes the footage that much better, plus my makeup and performance is a lot better as well.

The lighting in the new footage makes me so much clearer and shows my features, before they was hidden from the dark lighting and added color. i removed the floating dots also as i personally dont think they fit in well with my vision for the final piece.

Performance re filming

Today i took home a camera and tripod and set up a black backdrop, i re done my makeup, hair and picked a new outfit and begun to film my new performance scene. i filmed this at home and at forst trying to find a area to film was hard as i didn't bring no extra lighting home or had a area possible to film where there was good lighting. I have south facing windows and a extended wall in my kitchen so i set up the backdrop facing the windows and began to film. the footage came out amazing and really gives my video a clean crisp classy look.

The background used was a black sheet pinned up facing the windows, it was quick easy thinking as i didn't want to loose this natural lighting as the sun goes down early due to the time of year, For my make up i done simple base foundation and filled my eyebrows in and applied lashes, i wanted my face to be made up but nothing compared to last time. i need my appearance to be fresh and classy as that is the style i want to use through out.

Analysed feedback

I did have a lot of blank spaces with no footage, i knew this would be picked up on as there was as lot so i knew i had to start with filming some new footage. Plus it also said that i had to adjust the effects that i had already applied, i needed to play around with the levels and brightness as it looked off colour and would look better in black and white like some of the other footage.

Last bit of feedback

What needs to be done

As i am now working on my own i began to look back on what footage i have an started to make changes so i know how much footage i needed to re film. The performance of me singing was deleted as i thought it looked grainy and i didn't like my outfit, hair or makeup, plus my lip singing wasn't great so i needed to improve on my acting to make it more believable.

I got rid of the dancing scenes and started to develop a new idea to fill its space as the setting to dance is no long available and the deadline for the music video was near and i couldn't keep waiting around. I brainstormed many ideas but deciding one was hard, most of the footage was now gone and i was left with very little to work with, this meant i had to get on with the re filming.