Editing

Here is the editing for the opening of the music video.

This is what the opening looks like on the time line. So far it lasts just over 10 seconds.

We start with a close-up of the guitar which the lead singer in holding. This then fades into the next shot of him. In this shot Will takes of the strap and throws it on the floor, then puts his foot on the amp and sings the first lyric "I got my first real six-string".

The next fade goes into the guitartist playing whilst sat down, this syncs to the guitar in the song. It then fades back to the lead singer who is still in the same position but this time singing the second line of lyrics "Bought it at the five-and-dime".

Here is the editing for the photoalbum scene. 

This is what the photoalbum scene looks like on the time line. It lasts

We start with Henry quickly flicking through an old photo-album. When he suddenly stops when he gets to a certain page.

This is what the fade between the two shots looks like.

This is the over the shoulder shot of the photoalbum. It allows the audience to see what photos the main narrative character is looking at. It creates enigma as the auidence haven't seen the other girl in the photo before.

Here is more of the park scene.

At the start of this chunk of video there is the photoalbum page turn shot.

Here is the transition from when Henry turns the photoalbum page over, it then goes into live action of the holding hands scene.

Editing

Here is the updated version of editing which we have done for the scene where the main narrative character walks past his ex's house.

Here is what it looks like on the time line. It lasts just over 16 seconds.

Here is the shot of the main narrative character walking down the street towards the camera. This then suts straight to the next shot.

The next shot is the main narrative characters POV of the house. You are able to see the window which the ex is looking out of.

This then cuts to see the ex looking out of her window down at the main narrative character.

This is Henry turning his head up before smiling and walking on.

We decided to change from the main narrative character just standing there. We chose instead to have him glance up, remember the good times and then smile before carring on walking past.

We chose to fade from the main narrative character to him walking down the lane. We chose to over lay the two scenes by a good amount as this would add to the mood which we wanted to create.

This is the fade when it is closer to the characters long shot than his mid shot.

This is the shot which this scene ends on.

Filming Day 6

Tuesday 23rd October

We filmed the performance parts of the video, these were shot in the school hall after school hours. We used the lighting equipment so that it looked more like a stage and should look more proffesional even though the band was only during their school days. I think that filming went well as I managed to get a number of different shots from a wide variety of angles, with shots of the entire band as well as close-ups of the individual members. This should come in handy when we edit it together.

Filming Day 5

On tuesday the 23rd October we filmed part of the narrative. This was the tracking shots of the main narrative character outside his ex's house. I feel that we got the shots from a variety of angles and distances which will enable us to transition between them during editing.

Annotated Lyrics

Storyboard Update - Performance

1

Shot Type: Long Shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot includes all of the band members within the frame. Establishing shot of the band to show that they're the artist/band who sings the song. Each band member is in their set position.

2

Shot Type: Close-up --> Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot of the bassist, who is in one of the spotlights. The spotlight is yellowy orange. This shot will be shown around the lyric "Jimmy quit".

3

Shot Type: Extreme Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Close-up of the cords on the bass guitar which is being played by the lead singer.

4

Shot Type: Close-up --> Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot of the drummer, who is in the other spotlight. This shot is shown around the lyric "Jody got married".

5

Shot Type: Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Low angle shot of the lead singer with extreme facial expressions. Other members of the band are at the back out of focus.

6

Shot Type: Extreme Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes Shot of the lead singer, close-up. Your able to see the other members of the band in the background but they are out of focus.

7

Shot Type: Long Shot

Camera Movement: Pan across the room or a dolly movement

Notes: Shot includes the entire band. A dolly will be used to travel across the room steadily and will include different closeness of each of the band members in turn.

8

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shots of the entire band practicing but relaxed and moving around the stage.

9

Shot Type: Long Shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot of the band from behind them.

10

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Pan

Notes: Shot of the drummer from a side-view. Slight pan from left to right.

11

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Pan

Notes: Shot of the bassist from a side-view. Slight pan from right to left.

12

Shot Type: Long shot. Low angle.

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Low angle shot of all the band members.

13

Shot Type: Mid-shot. Low angle.

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot of the lead singer from a low-angle and also other shots from a normal angle.

14

Shot Type: Extreme Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot of the lead singer miming.

15

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Shot has the drummer in the center of the stage with the singer and the guitarist either side of him.

16

Shot Type: Long Shot --> Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Slight Pan

Notes: End of performance. Includes each member of the band.

Storyboard Update - Narrative

 

1

Shot Type: Mid Shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Camera shows the main narrative character sat at a table looking through old photos in a photo-album with an alcoholic beverage next to him. The alcoholic beverage is likely to be a beer bottle.

2

Shot Type: Over the Shoulder shot

Camera Movement: Still with Panning

Notes: Camera transitions into an over the shoulder shot, this allows the camera to get a close-up of the stills.

3

Shot Type: Extreme Close-up

Camera Movement: Still with  a slight panning movement.

Notes: Camera moves to an extreme close up of the stills from the photo-album, this then transitions into live action.

4

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: A simple shot which is there to establish the couple are in love. Possibly going to be shown around the lyric "Standing on your mamma's porch. . ."

5

Shot Type: Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Close-up shot of the couple hand holding, this links with the lyric "when you held my hand". There will be a mid-shot of the couple walking together and then a close-up when they go to grab each others hand, this will then go back to a mid-shot of them walking towards the camera.

6

Shot Type: Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Another shot the couple on the hill. It's a shot that is two shots before the love interest breaks up with the main narrative character.

7

Shot Type: Close-up

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: Close-up of the love interest saying "it's over" to the main narrative character. We may not use this shot, it will depend how effective it looks and how well you can tell what she's actually saying.

8

Shot Type: Close-up / Mid-shot

Camera Movement: Still

Notes: The couple are holding hands on the hill, and then the love interest walks away when she breaks up with the main narrative character. The main narrative character goes to grab her but she is faded out of shot. This will be shot twice, once with the couple in shot and then again re-acted by the main narrative character on his own. This will help when it comes to editing and fading the love interest out.

 After completing one storyboard we then decided to plan some other ideas which we could possibly use for the narrative.

1

Shot of the main narrative character sat on the hill waiting for the love interest to arrive. The love interest then arrives and they walk together to hold each others hand. Same setting as where the love interest breaks up with the main narrative character.

2

Shot of the house which the love interest lives in. It will be a long-shot and will include the whole house in the shot, this means that we won't get any unwanted reflections from the windows. The main narrative character is seen walking past the house and he glances up at the window which she's sat in.

3

Here is our planning for the transition which we are going to use for the photo-album scene. We were planning how we are going to pan around the character to then into the still which then goes into action. We want it to look as though it goes straight into the action after establishing the photo with no stutter between the transition.

Shooting Schedule

Here is our updated shooting schedule, this enables us to be as organised as possible by having the dates on which we are filming pre-booked as we are able to plan for when we are shooting and we will be able to use the settings and equipment which we wish to use on the days we are planning to.

Editing

This is the scene of the main narrative character and the love interest walking together to hold hands, we overlapped these so that they fade into one another and you can still see the other shots playing behind it for a short amount of time. By overlapping the two shots, it created a transition between one to the other.

We chose to have these overlapping because it meant that when the love-interest walks away and the main narrative character turns to grab her, he is then also stood facing away from them holding his head. You then see the main character walking away down the hill, the opposite way to which the love interest went.

This is the scene where the main narrative character is seen by the ex outside her window looking up at her, first the camera is focused on the love-interest and then pans round to show you her POV which is off the main narrative character on the path outside her house. We decided to overlay these which means that they transition by fading into one another. We slowed down the zooming shot by slowing down the play-back rate to 0.25, this makes the zoom look more effective than it did when it was at normal speed. 

Photoshop

For the photos we are going to use for the photo-album scene, it was decided to use Photoshop to make the images have a higher brightness level.

For this photo we chose to alter the brightness so it was +30

For this photo chose to have the brightness as +25

The brightness for this photo was changed to +20

+30 brightness was chosen for this photo

Each time we edited the photos we decided to higher the brightness because this makes the photos look more effective than they did when the photos were slightly dimmer.