Process of editing my music video...

These past couple of weeks I have been doing lots of video editing which is very close to being finished. During this process I have learnt a lot about using colour correction, sometimes the difficulty of trying to get my 'singer' in sync with the music and sometimes scenes that I had originally planned to use didn't fit in after all.

Using Colour Correction

As my choice of song is a sad one I didn't want the emotions shown to just be from the character. I wanted the atmosphere to be sad, so I used colour correction to help me do this. I changed the saturation so that some of the colour and 'life' was taken out of the footage to give a more mournful and cold feel. However, when I went to editing and changing the colour of the clips where the 'artist' sang I did not use  such depressing colours. This was because I wanted to separate the character from the artist as though they were two different people. I used colour correction to make so that it was brighter and used an effect called 'Indie Red' as it was ideal for the style of my video but also helped to distinguish the difference between the artist and the character.

Some of the footage that I took wasn't all planned. Like this clip here, I had planned for the actress to walk through this historic house towards me but without me knowing the camera lens went out of focus and blurred the whole clip. Although not planned, this worked to my advantage as it fitted in with the dark feel and gave a nice effect as different to some of the other clips. However, throughout filming and the making of my music video the camera did play up and although started filming in focus would blur so there was a lot of re-filming different parts to try and get a more professional look.

This photo is at Kirby Hall, one of my main locations, here I have used colour correction to help give off the sadness feel. Using this location has helped to create this as well. I feel it reflects loneliness and sadness due to it being a ruin, how isolated it is and left for plants to grow on it so perhaps not as loved and cared for as it would have been in the past when there were servants to tend to it daily.