Production - Inspiration + Research

Following our storyboard

As the deadline for the final cut of our music video approaches and we continue editing, we are still constantly looking back over our planning, as well as new sources of inspiration. In yesterday's lesson, myself and Poppy continued to do the majority of the editing, which wasn't a lot! The editing process is much more tedious than I anticipated, and I think it's time for me to stop being a perfectionist and worry about that a couple of weeks down the road or we'll never have a rough cut, let alone a final cut, produced in time! Mustafa and Charon were on hand to give their input on our decisions (and to settle any squabbles between me and Poppy, haha!) whilst they also started looking at digipak ideas. Mustafa described to us an example that he researched that opened up in all directions, which we though could be a nice idea, and would mean that we would have more panels to work with (which could be both an advantage and disadvantage).



As we went on selecting clips to work with, a snippet from the base track we filmed of Poppy sped up with the wolf projection stuck out for me and reminded me of a music video I had seen. The scene in question shows Poppy's hair flying in slow motion (after we slowed it down - at this point the lip syncing had not begun), with the slow motion + billowy hair effect featuring prominently in the video for Cocoon by Alpines. Below you can see a photo I took comparing still shots from the video and above the video itself. It uses a pretty simple concept in terms of the composition, with no location shots, but the intricate editing shines through and made us realize that we must be very careful if we are to use any special effects.

We also toyed with the idea of at least two of us spending time editing out of lessons, and whilst doing so, creating multiple versions of our Final Cut project file in case other group members suggest different ideas and we must revert to previous editing. This was suggested by our teacher Annabel as we only have three weeks from today until everything to do with the music video production is due, which isn't as long as I imagined. Therefore, we drew up a schedule of when each of us didn't have lessons and were free to edit (including most lunch times). This will begin on Monday with myself and Poppy coming in at lunch (Charon and Mustafa have other commitments at this time, but we'll be seeing more of them during the week.)