Our ideas for the video

We are going to be filming from different locations such as:

Kerry will be in a house (Melissa's house in a spare room) and she will be lying in bed and her boyfriend will be lying with her but he fades away. We want to show the lyrics "And I wake up to your face against the morning sun" in which we will have a lamp and a cloth that will be pulled up slowly to show the sun rising and hitting his face. We are trying to re-create the sun rising but as the sun doesn't set or rise at the window, so trying to re-create it will be a challenge.

The rain shots of her will be none singing shots. A long shot of her in the rain with her standing with her coat on with her hood over her or down, then we will have her boyfriend running up to her in the rain to give her a hug and hold her, but then we will have him fade away to show that he isn't there to keep her warm or be there for her when she is feeling down.

We will possibly have a shot of her waving off her boyfriend on the train platform, a long shot of her waving and then a close up of her looking upset still waving and then walking away cutting back to another long shot showing her walking away.

We will be filming in fields were the windmills will be shown in the background to give that breezy and cold effect which Kerry will be pulling her coat around her self and looking upset and lonely as the breeze whips around her.

Screenshots - Editing process

We had a day of filming Kerry in Towneley Park, a public woodland location, the weather was a little breezy and the season is perfect with the falling of the leaves, shows as a connotation of the couples love dying and gives a sense of melancholy.

Here we have zoomed in on Kerry from a distance as we have set the camera from a distance at the beginning of a path. The zoom on Kerry looks really good as we haven't got the camera in front of her face and allows us to zoom out and track her without having to have the camera hand held.

We have two different shots of Kerry walking along the pond. We have panned down on Kerry to show her reflection in the pond and then she walks along the pond in which we cut to a close up of her feet walking along and back to the reflection of her walking. I got the idea of the close up of her feet walking along the pond from the music video My Immortal by Evanescence.

Here we got the idea that we will shoot this again and have her and her boyfriend's reflection and he will go out of shot and we will dissolve this to show that he as faded away, he isn't there anymore.

Here we pan down on Kerry to show her reflection in the pond.

We don't have the cover track yet, so we used the official song by Adele as a substitute for the syncing process. We have placed as much footage we had from the first filming day into places where the song suits the clip. We are planning another film day which will allow us to fill more of the time line and to match the different parts of the lyrics. This will possibly be rearranged depending on what we have filmed and what suits which part of the song.

We want a variety of camera shots to keep the video interesting and different variety of camera movements, such as panning, tilting and zooming.

We are going to have another filming day where we have scenes in a bedroom were he is fading away and she is looking out the window and looking miserable. Another location we will have is a field were we will have the windmills in shot.

Editing - How to work Adobe Premier

1

In this panel you have your footage that you have imported from the camera. The colours represent what type of footage it is. Purples represent titles and blank footage so you can add titles and pictures and edit them easily. The Greens represent recorded footage or any type of footage that has been imported. With this you can edit them using the effects (See number 2) and which part of the footage you want (see numbers 4, 5, 6 and 8). The panel basically is the components that make up the video.

2

The effects panel is full of variety; these can be used on recorded/imported film footage as well has the titles and pictures. The effects are a lot different to those I have used in Windows Movie Maker, they are much more complex, they are worded differently to those in WMM which are worded simply and you can look at what action it does. The text effects have their own effects too, as well as those in the Effects panel. The effects in the Text are better for the text has it actually uses the effect on the text and not the whole segment as a whole.

3

This is the screen where you will see the footage you have selected in the left panel (See number 1) you can only see actual film footage not text or blank footage these have to be edited and placed in the time line separately to see them and work with them.

 

4, 5 and 6

These buttons are the point markers for the footage that you want to crop separately. Marker 4 is the starting point of the required footage you want and Marker 5 is the end point of the required footage this makes number 6. This is coloured in a lighter grey to show you what you have highlighted. This makes it easier for you to cut the footage you want out and see what it looks like by playing the play, pause, Stop, Rewind and Fast Forward buttons on the left (See number 7) On the left hand screen (See number 14) you can see what the footage will look like when placed into the timeline below (See numbers 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13) by doing this you can click and hold the reel button (See number 8) and drag to the timeline for the required footage you have marked out.

7

This is an alternative way to Rewind or Fast Forward at your desired speed, so you have full control on how far you want to go back or forward or how slow you want to go to get to a certain point.

8

This button represents the Film Reel, this will allow you to drag the whole video or as shown above the selected segment and place it on the time line without the audio. Which we will be doing as you will only need to hear the track.

9

This green bar represents the footage that you have edited/placed effects on or over etc; this allows you to see if you have “rendered” the footage together so that the effects work with the footage and runs smoothly when playing back. If there is the colour red in the green bar is means it hasn’t been rendered, so by using the keyboard shortcut “Enter” button it will render those pieces so that effects will work and the footage is able to work.

10

In this plane you can place another piece of footage that you want to appear before or after a certain point in the footage below that panel, and with that if you place it half way between that certain footage you can see the rest of it after the footage on top as finished. 

11

In this plane you place your required footage that you have in the footage panel (See number 1) and add any effects you want from the effects panel by click and hold and drag and drop onto the footage within the time line.

12 and 13

This panel is for your Audio. This is where the track will go and will run throughout the video. 

14

This is the screen where you can view your video you have created so far from the timeline, and just like those in numbers 4, 5 and 7 you can use the same technique to see the footage at a certain point or to get back to the beginning or the end.

Here is the Keyboard that is used for Adobe Premier;  this makes it easier for the editing with these shortcuts.

Research on Videos and Artist etc like ours

Taylor Swift

 Taylor Swift's music is mostly aimed at teenagers/young adults. She uses acoustic style music for majority of her songs. Her stories within her videos are normally about Girl falls in love with Boy, something stops them from being together, boy as a girlfriend, they both fit into opposite cliques (Taylor Swift is an American singer, her videos are normally based around the stereotypes within an American high school) Her music is normally about love and fairy tales such as these:


You Belong With Me

 

This video is the stereotypical American high school, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the geeks etc. Taylor Swift as the character in this video playing the Geek, who has a crush on a boy who's popular, a jock, as a girlfriend who's part of the cheer leading team. 

 Here they have a conversation through pen and paper through each others windows. The boy is tired of drama "Your on the phone to your girlfriend she's upset, going on about something that you said" and the girl writes back "Sorry" she then begins to write "I Love You" but the boy has shut his curtains.

 It's the schools rugby game and the girl is playing in the band, the male characters girlfriend is a cheerleader, but when they win the game we see the girlfriend flirting with another boy part of the rugby team. The boy breaks up with her and the Taylor's character notices this.

 It's prom and the boy asks through pen and paper if she is going, she writes "no, studying" a typical thing that a geek would do.

The boy turns round and writes "Wish you were!"

She then eventually turns up for prom, looking less geeky and more classy and stylish. She reveals a sheet of paper that says "I Love You" and he also does the same.


Evanescence

My Immortal

All in black and white, in several places - fountain, trees, rooftops, car, inside a house with piano, the band inside a house for the performance element.

Christina Perri -Jar of Hearts

The colour scheme is interesting, the colour is a blue colour to show the sadness of emotion, through out the video she doesn't want him back and she becomes stronger, as do the other girls in the video that have had their hearts broken. This is shown by him taking some sort of breath out of them and they run away from him. They fight back during the end of the video and Christina's character takes his breath and her heart is then healed and the colour comes back into the video representing this.

She as good fashion style and as seen as above she can play guitar in which we will be aiming to have Kerry playing the guitar in a dark room with one spot light.

Adele

Adele as the style we are aiming for, the black and white element as well as the Promotional features. She used very simplistic colours, black and white with another colour, in this instance, Green.

The Lyrics - Adele - Hiding My Heart

Hiding My Heart Away

So this is how the story went
I met someone by accident
who blew me away
who blew me away

It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away

And I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
you'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away

I dropped you off at the train station
And put a kiss on top of your head
I watched you wave
I watched you wave
Then I went on home to my skyscrapers
Neon lights and waiting papers
That I call home
I call that home

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
Away

I woke up feeling heavy hearted
I'm going back to where I started
The morning rain
The morning rain
And though I wish that you were here
On that same old road that brought me here
Is calling me home
Is calling me home

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear someday
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
I can't spend my whole life hiding my heart
away

Change of plan

The struggle with getting "Do Wah Diddy" moving, we decided to change idea to something that can be possible and that everyone is free at the same and on multiple occasions. We have changed it to Adele - Hiding my heart, which is possible as we only need two characters - a boy and a girl. Kerry, our friend wanted to take A2 Media so she is enthusiastic to be part of our project. We have possible locations for shooting:

Fields - we have a place that are like moors with windmills in the background, hopefully we would want to have the weather to be a little breezy so that it gives a dramatic effect of the cold, she will be wearing a knitted cardigan, leggings and brown boots, something similar to this style.

Melissa's House - She has a spare bedroom that can be used as Kerrie's bedroom and to be used for memories and the cross fading effect when in the lyrics she sings about him not being there, we can have him there with Kerry and then he moves out of shot while the camera is paused, Kerry doesn't move and then we press play again and we can crossfade both sets of footage to show him fading away.

Train platform - This will be used when she waves her boyfriend off the platform.

Dark room - This will be used for the performance element where she will be sat on a high stool, playing acoustic guitar, possibly miming the song.

We will be colour coding the music video with Black and White for memories and Colour for the present.

A friend of Gaynor's called Jason is playing the male character and is also enthusiastic to be in the video too.

We are to discuss when we are all free and see if weekends are good for filming.