Rebecca Wood 9282 A2 Advanced Portfolio

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I've decided to experiment with glow sticks as a source of lighting. My original plan was to use them as a lighting source in my music video. Although I might have overestimated how much light they actually give off. For the camera's sensor pick them up, the iso needs to be incredibly high (resulting a grainy image the higher you go), or the shutter speed needs to higher (meaning that the length of time the before the image is captured is much greater, creating more motion). For filming a shutter speed of 1/50 is advised (to go along with the frame rate of 24fps), so using glow sticks isn't really ideal. But on the flip side they can still be used for the ancilllary tasks (the digipack or the website). Setting the shutter to around 5-15 seconds I was able to create some motion with the light. Below are the test images, the first one is a CD test cover: Update: Here's another CD cover idea. I think I'm going to use these as part of my band's previous singl...

I recently came across a GIF taken from Panic! At the Disco's 'La Devotee' music video. I liked the way they have used a low key lighting in the video and then added a red still of the same shot as the camera zooms in. After looking and experimenting with colour isolation I'm looking for different ways to visual represent red and blue, so I am planning to try out this effect and see if it is something I would like to include in my music video.

Wrapped and edited, the pitch video to coincide with the one page pitch is done. I have try to express what I mean with the black and white, and red and blue colour grading within the video. Using After Effects to achieve the contrasting red colour of my scarf in the video against the black and white. Editing a one minute section took around an hour to properly track the mask manually, as I found the automated setting to not be very effective. Therefore I am skeptical about using this technique through the video, as I'd have to edit every single frame of each scene and take, which would be time consuming. Hence I am currently on the hunt of a different way to represent the blue and red colour scheme.

Today I thought I'd use some 'left' over footage from the Pitch Video to experiment and practice with effects solely in Premiere Pro.  I found a way of creating a flash bulb transition by key framing a small section at a high brightness (appearing to be almost white), and changing it back to normal. It's an effect I've been meaning to try out as it is quite common in music video and is an effect I will consider for post-production of my video. I have practiced changing the rate of the video playback in my previous videos but yet again it is typical of music videos, especially slowing down shots to get a more dramatic effect (like in the Editors' No Harm video ). I also had a go at cloning myself at the end, which was tricky than I thought. It would have been easier if I had planned out the proxemics. Although after a bit of tweaking I think I managed to convey the illusion of there being two of me in the room. 

Music video pitch from 10woodre

I've began to look at the lyrics, and the overall atmosphere and tone of She's Hearing Voices creates; in order to start to come with some more concrete ideas. Here's some of ideas I've come up with,  after listening to the song at least a hundred times.

An effects I've found that I would like to explore is colour isolation. I'd like to pick out red and blue for my music video so that it links directly to the lyrics, 'red pill, blue pill...'

I've started thinking about which songs that I can do for the music video task. I was think about She's Lost Control by Joy Division because I could imagine a narrative following a person that was lost control of their life. However I'm quite reluctant to make a music video for this song, even though it hasn't got one already, it's still quite a famous song and band, therefore I couldn't include a band in video and I like to idea of having both a narrative and performance video in one. Another song idea I had was Moaning Lisa Smile by Wolf Alice, I had a few ideas about this song but there is already a music video to it. She's Hearing Voices by Bloc Party is another song I am considering, as the lyrics are interesting and have a possible reference to the Matrix, which means I can include intertextual references in my video. There is also no music video to this songs,which is good and a narrative/performance video could work with the track. Joy Division -...

Today I decided to have a go at using a green screen, I want to see if it would be something that I could use for my music video. I used this article to help me get rid of the green background in Premiere Pro: How to Chroma Key in Adobe Premiere Pro Chroma keying is usually something that is done in After Effects, but sometimes, whether the simplicity of the project or just the fact that you do not want to send your footage to After Effects, you'll want to chroma key in Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro comes with a great keyer built right in called "ultra key." Here's a short video, note this is only for practice purposes and trying out the keying setting on Premiere Pro. After trying out the green I don't think I would use it in the music video, because it would be hard to make it look like the two aren't different images due to lighting consistency, and I don't think it would fit in with the narrative/song I'm thinking about making a music video fo...