Practice Ideas

We practiced the idea of changing the colour of the artists lips on each 'oh' and then practiced inside and outside to see how different shots would work and how they would look. Here is a short video of each practice idea.

In this video, you can here the actor singing along to the song. In our actual music video this wont happen, but we didn't feel it was necessary to play the track over the top of these clips as these are just practices to get an idea of how the video will look, not how it will sound.

Practice idea 1: Our first idea was too use a mixture of different bright colours on the artists lips, and then edit the shots so that on each beat of the 'oh' of the song, the colour of the lips would change. When we edited the shots together, it didn't look as effective as we thought it would. The cuts wern't smooth as the artist moved slightly in each shot. It was also a lot harder to edit than we thought it would be and was also very time consuming.We decided not to use this in our music video because it didnt look proffessional.

Practice idea 2: The second idea was to film the artist indoors. This meant that we could control the lighting in the shot, and also stop different weather conditions from spoiling the shots. We liked the second idea and thought it looked very effective. But because the song we are using is very upbeat and about the summer, we both had pictured the video as being filmed outside. We didn't think that the song would suit being filmed indoors.

Practice idea 3: The third practice shot was outdoors. This helped to give us an idea of what the shots would look like. The natural daylight fitted nicely with the style of the song. Before we could film the music video, we had to ensure that the white balance on the camera was correct as in the practice shots, the artist is 'glowing'.