The Power of Editing- Inspiration

Bombay Bicycle Club's 'Carry Me' has a very distinct sound and after hearing it, I was eager to see the music video. The video works perfectly alongside the song as it is very creative and the use of artists work on top of the footage is very interesting for the audience. The shots and camera movements are minimal but the video focuses on the excellent and innovative editing. I previously believed that the camera footage was the most important part of creating a music video, but after watching this video, it has allowed me to see the importance of editing as a whole and how it can truly create a story.

Plans for the Christmas Break- Vlog

Here is a brief vlog to explain our plans for the Christmas holidays.

Kaleidoscope

We have edited our kaleidoscope footage and have decided to use it for the chorus. Here is the footage along with the music.

The Editing Continues

The group did a vlog where we discussed editing the footage from Grovelands park, creating the Kaleidoscope, and also whether to add an effect to our final video or not.

Inspiration- NoNoNo

A music video which I think we can draw inspiration from is 'Pumpin blood' by the NoNoNo. This video seems quite similar to ours in terms of both the shots and the camera movements, and also the fact that there is very little in terms of narrative. The simplicity of the video is why it works, and it is something I particularly like.

The idea and concept behind this music video is very uncomplicated and it predominantly focuses on the camera angles and movements. The slow motion panning and tracking shots are very effective as it shows the surroundings of the singer, which is similar to ours as we have decided to base the majority of our video outside. This could be the ideal way in order to show our surroundings as we really want to focus our audiences attention on the nature within our video as we feel we can get some great shots and it will also add to the relaxed vibe of our video.

This video highlights that simplicity is key and we intend to create something similar to this for our final product.

Change of Costume

For our second day of filming on Friday we decided to change our costume from our previous filming day. Anna and Rachel discussed this change, which came as quite a surprise to myself and Lucy as we were unsure whether to wear different clothes for continuity reasons. After researching further into other music videos especially those within the indie genre, we found it was quite usual for a variety of costumes to be worn within a music video and it was also appropriate for our video as we have no real narrative and we do have a change of location. Looking specifically at videos that fall in to the same indie genre as our song,it is evident that the costumes are changed regularly.

'Something good can work' by Two Door Cinema Club shows a change of costume. This close up shot showing the back of the band, shows both the change of costume and the change of location which is something that we have also done as we want to show a variety of surroundings and costumes.

This change of costume due to a change of location seems to happen regularly in music videos as it is also evident in The 1975's 'Girls' video.

These videos highlight how we have adhered to the conventions of an indie music video through our use of costume changes.

Vlog

An update vlog on our trip to Grovelands.

Filming

We began our second day of filming today, and admittedly we went with very little in mind when it came to narrative. We all had some idea of the camera shots we wanted but it was what was going to be filling the shots that was the problem. With a very broad idea of camera angles and shots we felt it would be best to just leave the camera rolling, which allowed us to capture any shots that we thought looked good and the more unsteady shots we discussed could potentially be used for our Kaleidoscope.

We hadn't actually planned where we wanted to begin the filming but the group liked the idea of filming around the stream in Grovelands Park as we thought it would fit very well with our other shots of nature from our filming day at Alexandra Palace. The stream and the very natural surroundings coincide with the vibe we wish to create for our music video. We really wanted to ensure that all four of us were present in the shots, which we found quite difficult as one person would have to be filming at any time but we managed to work around this and we don't think this will be an evident problem in our final footage as we have a great deal of shots with everyone present. 

All in all it was a very productive morning of filming and we plan to get cracking on the editing when we return to media on Wednesday. Here are a few photographs of the group testing some shots...