Using Premier Pro

One of the challenges that I have faced using Premier Pro is the task of colour grading. I have mostly done this using the Lumetri colour wheel...

Through research I have found that the colour scheme that is most commonly kept to in both music videos and films themselves are orange and teal. For this reason I tried the orange and teal colour scheme on my video and found that it worked very well. Orange and teal works with my video for two reasons. The first being that it makes my footage look a lot more professional being that it is used for all of the mainstream music videos that we see every day. And the second being that the blue makes the background surrounding my subject in focus seem cold and empty. As my character is going through a break up in my music video it gives off the sort of sympathetic feel that I want it to. The orange helps to compliment my characters skin tone and make him stand out from the background in a more vibrant way. This is something that I want because it helps draw my audiences attention to the character whenever he is in a shot.

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After

Re-shoot

During my editing I thought of a shot that would fit in really well with what I already have. The shot would be of my actor, but with books flying in front of him at random. As I didn't have access to my actor, I instead used a green screen...

I then through books and pieces of paper in front of the green screen, and then edited the image so that the green screen was replaced with my actor.

My opening to my music video

Through my research of music videos I have found that most music videos start without the music playing. For example:

Ed Sheeran; Perfect

James Bay; Let it go

Kodaline; All I want

Mumford and sons; Lover of light

I have found that these music videos all start without the music playing so as to give the audience to get a feel for the location of the music video. For this reason I want to do this same thing with my Music video. In my music video I now have it so that my first two shots don't have the music playing in them, the music starts to play as soon as the artist is in the shot. This is similarly done in the music video for James Bay: Let it go. I want to have the music start to play when the artist is first seen in the music video because I feel that this will not only draw attention to the artist, but also clarify that he is the main point of focus within the video. I also have the title and artist of the song displayed during these first two shots. I've done this so that everything is established early on in the video.

Magazine advert practice

I have recently changed my mind as to what I want to do for my magazine advert. I was originally going to have my artist lying on the floor surrounded by guitars in a birds eye view shot...

I am now instead going to have my artist in a room surrounded by different versions of himself. I want to do this instead because I feel that it will better demonstrate the wide range of emotions that are seen in the album, and the song that I am doing. I made an example using myself as the subject in focus so that I could try out the location.

In the actual version of this photo I will have the artist displaying more distinguishable emotions in each of the photos. I will also have the posters taken down so as not to distract the audience from the artist. The photo will also be a different size depending on the size needed for it to fit the magazine.

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