Panning Pre Lim - Editing

With Tom having the most experience when it comes to editing, our best chance of this video coming out well was to let Tom have the biggest role while me and Erin helped with deciding on animations, timing and effects. We used Final Cut Pro X to edit and create our video because of its easy layout and how straight forward it is. It had plenty of effects and animations which widened our chances of our video looking exactly how we wanted.

Planning - Location

As we didn't have much time to film or to find a location far from where we were, we chose a closed and discrete area where there was no distractions and no surrounding sounds that may be picked up on the camera. 

We needed somewhere that was...

• Plain (brick wall or blank wall)

• Dim but not pitch black 

• Very quite

We also agreed on a silhouette effect on my hands which we used the projector for. This really helped when it came to just wanting all the attention from the audience on my hands that where clapping the beat of the song. It was a really different scene compared to the others and I personally thought it stood out considering it is also the very first shot the audience sees. 

Planning - Costume

Costume didn't play a massive part for me and Erin because of how small our camera time was and how little of our body was showing. Throughout the video you only see my hands and arms while erin only has her lower legs in view.

However, Tom had a much larger role and had to lip sync the chorus, so his costume was much more important and had to fit perfectly with the mood, theme and set. We all agreed on a casual look which also looks a little dressed up but would fit with the young and updated theme of the song. The target audience of the song and lyrics is teens, so by all of us being around the age of 16 - 18, it would easily fit in.

Planning Pre Lim - Filming Days

First day of Filming
With this being mine and Erin's first time actually recording anything, it took us a little while to get used to it. We all thought it was best to stick to one location for the first day and move onto a different one the next time we film, so we stayed close to college as we didn't have very much time to film and edit. We focused on syncing the beat to our actions, Erin taping her feet and me clapping behind a large, lit screen creating a silhouette. We also recorded Tom miming the lyrics to the chorus which made it easier from when we had to film a little more the following day. We filmed this specific part from two angles to create the effect that there is more then one camera recording.

Second day
As a group, it was agreed that the next location needed to have natural lighting and a more open space. We filmed one more tapping scene which included my hand slowly beating to the song on a music controller. We also recorded the chorus one more time from a completely different angle with different lighting.

Closer Music Video

Pre Lim Lesson 1 - Planning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk

The music video me and my group have chosen is Closer - The Chainsmokers Ft Halsey

The reason we chose this specific song is because it has very obvious beats and is quite easy to mime and lip sync. As none of us have every recorded a music video or acted, we decided to use a simple and popular song in order to make it easier for ourselves.

As a group we agreed to use the music between 00:30 and 01:12 because it has plenty of lip syncing, definite beats and also includes the the chorus.