Editing Music Video

Editing the music video has been a challenge as it has been hard trying to sync up the music with Harry's, our lead singer, voice to the the actual song itself. It has also been hard trying to decide whether or not the video fits with the song whilst trying to fit Goodwins theory of syncing the beat of the music with the pacing of the video. I also had problems trying to make charlie look as if she was actually playing the guitar so i had to make sure i had something to cut away from so that it would sell to the audience that he actually knows what he is doing.

Fourth Video Shoot

During this shoot we had to use my Grandad's shed due to the fact that there is a gym in there with a punch bag. We originally was going to film my younger brother turning into me whilst running however we felt as if there was enough running scenes so we decided to film my brother punching a punch bag whilst the camera pans to the left and the pans back to the right and it turns into me. However we had issues with the lighting whilst trying to do this so we decided to use a simple cross fade which we felt fit better with the pacing of the video aswell.

Third Video Shoot

Before we filmed this shoot we had to find places which had stairs that were big enough and looked as if they were the same steps that Rocky ran up in Philadelphia. We wanted this look due to the fact that music videos typically follow Goodwins analysis of intertextual references so we thought it would fit if we would film the Rocky scene seeming that our video is a training sequence. We eventually found the right place where we should film, which was Crystal Palace park. We felt that the steps were the right size and looked exactly how they do in the film. However, whilst shooting this it had rained the previous night which led to issues when it come to me trying to run up the steps without slipping. We then started to film from different angles with different camera movements, however we did not feel as if it felt right so we watched the running scene in Rocky and decided to shoot it shot for shot. 

Second Video Shoot

This video shoot was particularly difficult to film as we had to work with my little brother which was hard for us and him as he wasnt too sure what he had to do due to the daunting of being filmed. However we sorted this out eventually and came up with various camera techniques that we could use to make sure that the running scenes did not become boring or too repetitive. During shooting Charlie brought his car which led us to get adventurous with some of the shots such as shooting from the perspective of a driver and using the car to do tracking shots as my younger brother ran.

Digipak Second Draft

First video shoot

During this shoot we had many problems trying to figure out where we wanted to film some of the running scene, this then meant that time was wasted when was trying to film on a limited time. We could not decide as to whether or not we wanted a more of a urban looking area or a modern area we then decided to go for something that looked like it was in between both. Whilst we was shooting we took a range of different shots as we did not know the look and style that we really wanted for our music video so decided to shoot as many different styles as possible and then decided what we felt fit the most during editing.