Below you can watch the Music video my team and I have worked on. This is my own edit of the video. It aims to raise awareness of the dangers to drug addictions. The song is not our own. All credit for the song goes to the band, ‘Panic! At the Disco’.
Read the evaluation of the video below.
We started filming in the TV studio. We filmed Ryan lip-singing to ‘Panic of the Disco’. I was recording it with a DSLR camera and Matt filmed it with the professional camera in the TV studio. I had a hard time getting the camera completely in focus with the red lighting we had. However, I did get it as in focus as possible, but it was hard to tell how good it would be from the small camera screen. Regardless, I really enjoyed recording Ryan’s lip-singing and I couldn’t wait to dub it with the song.
When I finally came to import all the DSLR footage a college iMac, I found that the picture quality looked a little bit out of focus. I tried getting it in focus on the day but couldn’t seem to get it any better than I had it but I didn’t realise how bad it was till I started editing it. I don’t have the problem when I film in a setting with normal lighting, but when it’s dark with red lighting; it’s much harder to get it in perfect focus. I decided I had to book the studio with Phil at some point and work on getting it in focus. However, I later found out that DSLR’s in general do seem to have that problem in that kind of lighting and the way to resolve it is by changing the ISO settings which I’ll have to do next time. I’ve also found out that you can actually get the footage on a TV screen at the same time as when you’re recording on camera. This would really help with recognising when it’s not completely in focus.
However, luckily, the footage from the TV studio camera was 1000,000 times better so it wasn’t a total loss. I decided to only use that footage and I did a pretty good job at getting Ryan’s lip singing in sync with the original song.
The following week, my group continued working on the music video, but unfortunately I was off sick that week so I didn’t get the chance to do the filming, but other members in my group did and they sent over the recorded footage for me to edit. I spent two days editing all the footage together and had a lot of fun doing this.
When I first saw all the footage: I wasn’t entirely sure on how I should incorporate the new footage in with the old. I noticed there were a couple of scenes planned that didn’t make it into the filming. I asked Ryan for some advice (since it was his idea to make the film) and he showed me his edit which I found very helpful to simply give me an idea of the kind of thing to work on. I’m told that some of the plans had to change, due to inconvenience.
For example – there was originally going to be a scene of the drug addict looking into the restroom mirror and seeing blood come out of his nose. This was meant to illustrate the extreme dangers of the addiction. This scene couldn’t be filmed because they couldn’t get hold of any fake blood.When I first looked at all the footage, I was a bit confused as to why this scene didn’t seem to there. I even thought maybe I didn’t have some of the footage (it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened) but I soon came to realise it was nothing to fear.
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