Preliminary task

This is a short 40 seconds clip of the music video we created for the preliminary task. The task helped us learn more skills of the camera as it had been a while since we last used it. We wanted to use the song 'Keep you head up' by Ben Howard because it matches our indie pop genre which we are focusing on throughout the project, we kept with the theme of nature because in the videos we had analysed it was a common theme throughout.The song is quite upbeat compared to the one we are thinking about using for the final piece, the song was perfect for what we wanted to achieve, we wanted to make the video look like a home video and have it quite chilled out because of the time we had to do it in we didn't think they was a lot of time to decide on a narrative for the video. We did have some problems but only due to the weather, the day we were going to film the weather was heavy rain and wouldn't of been good to film in as we wanted a festival look with sunshine. Luckily the day after we decided to film the weather was good and it gave us the look we wanted to achieve when filming. 


We wanted the video to look like a home video and we did this by just randomly filming when moving to the different parts of the location we were filming at (0:11) which gives a natural look to the film as it catches everyone off guard. We wanted to create a summery look to the video so we changed the colours, the colours used were purple,green and blues which gives it a unique look to the video. We were just testing the colours out because we had an idea for our final piece so doing this gives us an idea of what it looks like. Maybe, for this piece it would of looked better in a sepia look to give it a more summery feel to the video. We used several shots when shooting such as, pans and long shots to show the scenery of the location. The different shots of us all having fun show what we wanted to show in our video and gives a upbeat feel to the video. My favourite shot is of me and Catherine running through the corn field (0:22 - 0:25) it shows exactly what we wanted to show in the task. We wanted one shot of the poppy to have a different colour background but the poppy to stay the same colour, we used MATTE on the clip, we had to cut round the flower by dragging the points to make sure the poppy stayed the same colour. Because of the video clip of the poppy moving the matte moved so the colour would go over the poppy and it didn't look very good, we didn't have enough time to get it perfect because it did have to be on the blog. We know how to do it now for the future and will make it look good if we include it on our final piece. 


We had problems when editing the video because the computer kept freezing and even though we had saved the project we kept loosing the recent work we had done. This was a big problem because of the time we had to edit the video, this meant having to do a shorter video with less clips. We are all happy with the final out look of the music video, it has gave us an idea of what we want for the final piece.