Editing Techniques for my music video

The use of Black and white

Me and my partner have chosen to use a black and white effect to show flash backs to the good times. We have chosen this create more of an effect because our video is supposed to be create emotion and have a reflective mood. 

The use of Sepia 
Me and my partner have chosen to have sepia as an option for us to create a dramatic atmosphere. We are not yet sure if we are going to include sepia yet as we are going to see if it works when we get the footage.

The use of ttransitions: 

• Smooth transition- we want our transitions to be soft as the song is very slow. This transition will help the shots move along nicely, making it it feel like a real music video.
• Dissolve will help us when our character finally dies as we want the shots to be long without it being one whole take. This also helps us with going back to the artist which is a form of performance.

The use of jump cuts and graphic match
The two editing techniques will help make our video different from others as it creates more of an effect. The jump cut will be used when showing the flashbacks and the graphic match will be shown through the use of two character's eyes. This will help show the main plot to the music video to show how the little boy is the artist singing.

Slow motion
The use of slow motion will help bring out the audience's emotion towards the characters in this video. We want to also showcase the mothers struggles as she feels she Will be stuck in that bad situation forever and that there is no way out. We want the audience to feel what the mother is going through and slow motion will help to show the hard life of a single mother going through a lot of things.

Breakdown Sheets

My Music Video Survey Results

I made a survey to find out how people respond to music/ music videos. I gave out this survey to 20 people around school and from the results, it has helped me understand what the audience for my music video would want and what I could include or take out from my existing music video to appeal to more people. For example, one of my questions asked if people enjoyed having a moral in a music video and more said yes than no, this is useful as my music video has a story and a moral, it shows  how people who are struggling should get help instead of letting things get from bad to worse and finally giving up on their lives.These are some of the results I received :

Music Video Animatic (FINAL)

Breakdown Sheet for my music video SNEAK PEEK!

Settings:  Living room, Kitchen, bedroom, estate, graffiti wall, park, stage, hospital                                                                                                                        

Location: St. Thomas Hospital where the mother character will be walking into the reception to show the audience that she has health problems which later on they will discover she has cancer. Tooting Hub where most of the shooting will commence especially the performance scene. Stockwell where we will shoot the establishing shots, the stair case and the door scene. Vauxhall Park where we will shoot the ‘heaven’ scene with the mother character. 

Crew members and roles:  Victoria Kaboyo and Faban Hiyabu - Both shooting with the camera and directing

Cast members:   A mother, a small boy, a teenage boy and a man

Extras:  The audience when the little boy performs which will be at tooting hub. The little boy’s friends performing with him mostly concentrated on the little boy (the son of the woman)

Wardrobe:

·         The little boy- school uniform, jeans and a hoodie, t-shirt – this is to make him look as normal as possible and the casual clothes when he performs

·         The teenage boy- T-shirt, jeans, hoodie- this would show how the teenage boy is like every other boys his age, normal.

·         The man- T-shirt and jeans

Make-up:  N/A

Props:  chain that the mother gives to the son in the park. Pills for when the mother commits suicide.

Special effects: The use of blur, black and white in some scenes to show flashbacks

My Music Video Animatic (1) and Feedback from my class

This is my first Animatic I did with my Partner. Since doing this animatic, we gained feedback from our class about it and they said that it was very good and the best thing about it is our narrative, they said that we really thought about how we were going to match the lyrics of the song to the story. However, they also stated that we needed to make some of our scenes less longer and use quick shots for effects. The best comment we received was and idea of what we could add in to give more of a dramatic effect, a student said that instead of having our female character go into an office having a doctor tell her she has cancer we could show it through the character having her hair falling out. This comment was very useful and it reminded me why feedback is very important!

My Pitch