The 'Before' Scenes

February 2012

During half term Amber was busy and so i decided to film the rest of the footage from my house alone. i filmed me walking into the room and starting to drink, i filmed this from a high place in the corner of the room so that the entire room was then visible. i moved around the room drinking in different places with the intention of the middle parts being cut out so that it jumped from one place to another, also showing the passing of time.

I then filmed me getting ready from several different angles; from the side so that the camera was looking into the mirror and at the side of my face, from the back of the room so that all of my body was visible and me in the mirror, and lastly of the camera in front of the mirror so that it looks like the camera is the mirror.
As we had decided by this point that the 'bizarre' scene of the video was not appropriate i improvised by shooting some random shots after doing my make-up, such as blowing bubbles into the camera, twirling around with streamers and bouncing with the camera help above my head which i believe gave a nice effect. these parts could be added into the video at any time and are parts that do not need to be chronologically ordered.

After this i needed to change from my dressing gown into my costume that i am seen in in the footage from the social. i wanted to do this without showing to much so that it did not look sleazy. in order to do this i put the camera back in the corner of the room, although not to high up so that it was still focused on me, i then turned so that my back was to the camera, pulled the jumpsuit up my legs, took the dressing gown off and continued to put the rest of the costume on. i believe this worked effectively and would probably be sped up in editing. After this i put my shoes on and left the room. i tried to do this from a different angle and put the camera on the floor with the shoes in the center of its vision, i walked over as i did in the original shot, put the shoes on and left the room.

Lastly, i filmed me coming back from the party just in case it could be used. i simply closed the curtain so that it was darker, (not causing any continuity errors as they where never in the shot) walked in and collapsed onto the bed.

After half term i took the footage i in and began to edit it with amber who had collected research for the poster and magazine advertisement. When editing the footage we first picked out all of the things that we would like to use and began putting them in order. we decided that, from where we got up to when the room became empty, i should walk straight back into the room, showing it is the following day. we then started sectioning off parts of me drinking around the room, cutting them down until they where all the same time length, making sure i was in different positions each time. this worked out really well and we decided it was better without any effects in-between but to just go straight from one place to another. After this we chose all of the make up parts that we thought would look best, we decided that only the close up shots (not the medium long) should be used for the make up section of the scene as the other did not show much of what was going on and if sped up would look blurred, we did however, decide to use the medium long shot for when i was doing my hair, as you could see what i was doing from every angle, it also gave a new perspective on the scenery and more variation.

There was some problems with the footage of me getting changed as it did not quite fit with the song, also we could not use the shots of putting shoes on from the floor as you could see the reflection of the tripod in the mirror, this could easily be solved as it was filmed from different angles however, to make sure i had left the room and the door shut at the right time we had to cut parts out of putting make-up on to make it a lot shorter, which turned out to still be effective, also we cut down the part of me getting changes so that you can only see from taking my dressing gown off. Lastly, we decided to cut a part from nearer the beginning where i stumbled from the bathroom across the hall, we changed this so that it went straight from me leaving the bathroom to entering the bedroom, which made little difference to the understanding of the story line and meant that the door closed just as the main beat of the music came in, so that we could cut straight to the party scene.

When continuing to edit the footage in further media lessons i realized that a title was needed before the music video started, Amber found some scrapbook style exchanges and titles and credits which are colorful and would fit in perfectly with the style of the film, when adding this in we realized that the music was out of sync with the footage again and so to solve this, amber dragged the music clip further along so that it started under the first clip of the video, easily solving out problems. After doing this we added in the scrapbook style exchanges in-between clips so to carry on the theme throughout. Also we found there to be different styles of words that ca be added in over the video, we decided to spread some out throughout the first section of the film saying some of the words of the song when they came on, We tried to use as many styles and fonts as possible to maintain the random nature of the music video, continuously using bright colors as to stand out and bring color to the scenes. Lastly, i found that by adding a light filter of color over the party scene, it makes the image more vivid so that it can be seen better, while enabling it to still be dark and fuzzy.