Change of Plan

Unfortunately due to some difficulties shooting the originally planned music video for the Beatles "Come Together" i have had to change my plans and make go down a whole new direction. This involves a completely different idea for the video which will be hopefully less complecated and more successful.

The New Idea

My new idea for my music video is a bit easier to shoot, i had problems getting the camera and people in the different locations needed for the original idea so this time i have decided to keep the locations of the shoots alot easier to get to and hopefully this will lead to me having a better chance of getting the footage. My new idea involves a man going for a walk, that sounds waay to simple but the twist that will make the video hoepfully more interesting to watch is the introduction of colour that the main character brings. The world is going to be monotone, and he is the colour, that is the reason the people want to come together around him. So he leaves his house into the black and white world and he imediately stands out, this turns heads of the other colourless people and they decide to follow this man. As they do they too become colourful untill there is a large band of colour in the world. The people are "Coming Together" over this man and the colour he brings to their lives.

Insfluences

I got the idea of using colour as a tool from the lilly allen music video for her song "LDN" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYT79tPvLg&feature=related

This video plays with colour and with the scenery but i am more interested in the colour side of it. I also like the way it has been filmed, the shots of the feet walking and her walking through shot. I would like to try and implement those shots in my video.

I am also interested in creating an air of mystery for the main charater, make him a little bit of an enigma. To do this i have looked at the BBC One show "A Question of Sport" and their mystery guest round. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=wtAQ0nuvWw0&NR=1

I love the way they film these to make it as challenging as possible to work out who it is; i think that it would be a nice addition to my video and to just know the main character as the man who brings the colour, and then at the end reveal who it is. This doesn't mean to say i will have anyone of real stature in my video, no celebrities unfortunately but it will be an inclusion that will hopefully make my video stand out as something a little different.

I would also like to include split screens and possibly a little bit of cloning just to have a few more things to keep the viewer visually interested in the video.

Examples of these two effects are here:

Split Screen- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8k7xJBXv30

Cloning- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS088Opj9o0

So with these ideas and with the new redesigned music video hopefully i will do better in getting the footage i need.

Asset List

Camera

Tape for the camera

Tripod

Props:

sandwiches

newspaper

phones

Costume:

main guy in a suit

Bad Touch Remake 1:18

Evaluation

Here is my finished edit to the song Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang, it was definitely a big learning experience for me. I can now see the large amount of work needed to create just a one minute video and can then anticipate the amount of work needed for a 3 minute video. Despite the amount of work, the prancing about in a monkey costume and the tediousness of editing, i found the whole experience to be quite enjoyable.

Filming: The filming process was very long, the weather conditions weren't ideal for us in the monkey costumes, it was very hot and towards the end of the first day filming we lost patience and concentration. At first i found it tricky to get past the embarrasment barrier, to keep a straight face and not laugh during sequences was a challenge. Keeping a straight face and being professional right up until the shot is safely captured is very important, during the editing so many shots were unusable because someone smirked or started laughing towards the end, which at that stage is frustrating. I feel that the filming could have gone a lot smoother, i feel that the planning we did didn't prepare us properly for the actual filming. Although i don't think that i concentrated on the planning enough because we were given a storyboard to fill in with shots and shot lengths, but i did a half-hearted job with it. As a result i didn't really know what was going on during the filming and it made the whole process longer than it should have been. On the upside though i felt that during the filming we worked well as a team to get the job done as effectively as possible, we all took turns with the cameras and there was a general good cohesion in the group.

Editing: The editing process i found easier than i thought it would be, although long and tedious at times i thought that it would have been much worse/harder. I feel i got to grips with the software pretty quickly and found it simple enough to cut, and use the effects like flipping the image. The only thing i found hard was the lip syncing and as you can see in my video it jumps a little bit on the line "coming quicker than fed-ex, never reach an apex"; this is because Hannah said the line too slowly and when i then sped up the clip it didn't take up the right amount of space and there was a gap, i then had to drag the clip to the needed length but that didn't really work and it now jumps. Other than that i think that the editing went well and i did an alright job.