When recording the footage we had no idea we were this close to the end of the song. It's a good thing that we have been editing as we go along. It's good because it helps us to get a clearer picture for what can be in the next shots - when things are put together it also creates a clearer picture (sort of like a jigsaw puzzle). Secondly we can also give feedback to each other as we go along instead of having to wait till the very end and possibly having to re-take some scenes.
Its better to work with what you have and build up from there instead of waiting for what you'll get (which may not be as great or tailor-made as it could have been). We are nearing the end of our video shooting and every minute of it has been a great experience. I am not sure about the others but I have never shot a music video before and seeing this complilation is overwhelming. We are almost there.
Saturday 17 December 2011
Tuesday 13 December 2011
At Last, We Have A Cast
Words cannot explain how overwhelmed I am about the cast finally coming together. We all met today and everything went well! We got on so well we felt like family - it felt almost too good to be true. (Photos and photoshoot coming soon).
Here is a cross between a test, teaser and trailer. This is for feedback purposes within the group and for us to talk about what can be improved, changed or removed.
Cast:
October Malone - Female protagonist
Kashif James - Male protagonist
Kyle Dyke - Kashif's friend
Stanley Onyekwelu - Kashif's friend
Daniel - Kusimo - Kashif's friend
Martin Kusimo - Kashif's friend
Ayo Olukoya - Artist/ Narrator
Sam Folorunsho - Artist/ Narrator
Elsie Cullen - October's friend
Roles:
October Malone - Actress
Kashif James - Actor
Kyle Dyke - Actor
Stanley Onyekwelu - Cameraman/ Storyboard designer/ Editor/ Actor
Daniel Kusimo - Director/ Schedule Organiser/ Researcher/ Actor
Martin Kusimo - Lead Editor/ Secondary Cameraman/ Producer/ Actor
Ayo Olukoya - Editor/ Tertiary Cameraman/ Artist/ Actor
Sam Folorunsho - Artist/ Actor
Elsie Cullen - Actress
Here is a cross between a test, teaser and trailer. This is for feedback purposes within the group and for us to talk about what can be improved, changed or removed.
Wednesday 7 December 2011
It's Best To Test (Fast Motion)
Me and Ayo were around Waterloo and to our amazement the entrance was as busy as a beehive! It also gave us a great idea that we are considering to include in our music video.
Fast motion scenes. In a previous post I mentioned how the calm instrumental is to juxtapose with the hectic busy lifestyle of Londoners. This effect will help us to achieve just that. We decided to record at an ice rink instead.
Why? Because everyone is going round and round in one direction making the motion have a smooth flow. Also, the less confident ice-skaters will obviously move slower than everyone else because they do not want to drop (even though we filmed many drops). Because the less experienced ice-skaters are moving slower than everyone else it will help you to see just how important motion is.
Later on we decided to do even more tests with Stanley and Daniel. Stanley and Daniel have been really busy with the cast and storyboard but they finally found some time to help us do some tests.
We wanted to see what effect we could get by showing time passing by.
We noticed that Ed Sheeran's 'A-Team' used the fast motion scenes as well. But in his video he has fast motion scenes with a still/ slower moving character - it gave us the idea to have our actors moving in normal motion but everything else faster (giving the impression that they are in their own world).
We put it to the test, and once again, things did not work out as well as we hoped it would. Ayo is the person you see walking towards the camera. What we tried to do was have fast motion vehicles but Ayo in normal motion. Therefore we tried to get around it by having Ayo walk extremely slow in real-time, so that when we sped up the footage it would look like he's walking normally. Unfortunately Ayo's movements do not look natural enough and its too hard to acheive this way.
Next we tried to have two layers of the same video. The top layer would have normal untouched footage and the second layer would be sped up footage of the vehicles. Again, we couldn't get around it. The lighting between the two layers conflict and shadows do not match with the timing.
Finally, we came to a conclusion. Fast motion scenes are great but we have dropped the idea of having slower moving characters. Although, our media technician told us we could achieve the effect by using a green screen: the green screen would show the sped up vehicles passing by and then have the actual characters recorded in front of the green screen. However, we would need a pretty big green screen and would have to resize both footages to match real life proportions. We would also have to include other features like shadows to make it look believable. On that note we completely withdrew the idea of having slow moving characters. Maybe we will include still characters instead.
As for now, I think its best we just stick to fast motion scenes with just vehicles no characters as you can see in the video above.
Fast motion scenes. In a previous post I mentioned how the calm instrumental is to juxtapose with the hectic busy lifestyle of Londoners. This effect will help us to achieve just that. We decided to record at an ice rink instead.
Why? Because everyone is going round and round in one direction making the motion have a smooth flow. Also, the less confident ice-skaters will obviously move slower than everyone else because they do not want to drop (even though we filmed many drops). Because the less experienced ice-skaters are moving slower than everyone else it will help you to see just how important motion is.
Later on we decided to do even more tests with Stanley and Daniel. Stanley and Daniel have been really busy with the cast and storyboard but they finally found some time to help us do some tests.
We wanted to see what effect we could get by showing time passing by.
We noticed that Ed Sheeran's 'A-Team' used the fast motion scenes as well. But in his video he has fast motion scenes with a still/ slower moving character - it gave us the idea to have our actors moving in normal motion but everything else faster (giving the impression that they are in their own world).
We put it to the test, and once again, things did not work out as well as we hoped it would. Ayo is the person you see walking towards the camera. What we tried to do was have fast motion vehicles but Ayo in normal motion. Therefore we tried to get around it by having Ayo walk extremely slow in real-time, so that when we sped up the footage it would look like he's walking normally. Unfortunately Ayo's movements do not look natural enough and its too hard to acheive this way.
Next we tried to have two layers of the same video. The top layer would have normal untouched footage and the second layer would be sped up footage of the vehicles. Again, we couldn't get around it. The lighting between the two layers conflict and shadows do not match with the timing.
Finally, we came to a conclusion. Fast motion scenes are great but we have dropped the idea of having slower moving characters. Although, our media technician told us we could achieve the effect by using a green screen: the green screen would show the sped up vehicles passing by and then have the actual characters recorded in front of the green screen. However, we would need a pretty big green screen and would have to resize both footages to match real life proportions. We would also have to include other features like shadows to make it look believable. On that note we completely withdrew the idea of having slow moving characters. Maybe we will include still characters instead.
As for now, I think its best we just stick to fast motion scenes with just vehicles no characters as you can see in the video above.
Thursday 1 December 2011
It's Best To Test (Red Filter)
In a previous post I showed that having a red filter would be a very nice effect for our music video. However I showed in Photoshop how to have the effect on a still shot. Whereas using the same method on a lenghty video would take a ridiculous amount of time. Also that was technically selective colouring and not 'filtering'.
However I decided to actually record footage at Waterloo to do an actual test. The footage was captured in HD and in colour. In the videos below you will be able to see how the filter works.
This is the before and after version showing a direct comparison.
This is the version with full resolution showing the red filter.
Unfortunately the filter did not work as well as we wanted it to. When I filter the other colours out in the software manually it also leaves grey patches where red is supposed to be. When the filter is applied with a software effect (automatically) it does a great job of capturing reds. However because red is in pink, orange, yellow and brown, some of those colours are picked up as well.
The red filter works really well in my opinion even though it does not completely filter. I am happy with the result and glad I tested it.
However I decided to actually record footage at Waterloo to do an actual test. The footage was captured in HD and in colour. In the videos below you will be able to see how the filter works.
This is the before and after version showing a direct comparison.
This is the version with full resolution showing the red filter.
Unfortunately the filter did not work as well as we wanted it to. When I filter the other colours out in the software manually it also leaves grey patches where red is supposed to be. When the filter is applied with a software effect (automatically) it does a great job of capturing reds. However because red is in pink, orange, yellow and brown, some of those colours are picked up as well.
The red filter works really well in my opinion even though it does not completely filter. I am happy with the result and glad I tested it.
Storyboard & Boardmeeting
We held a boardmeeting about our music video, we discuss things like props, shots, editing effects and the storyboard.
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