My group agreed that we wished our band members to be formal keep the imagergy of One Republic to give our video realism. Here my group memebr Jamie has drawn out the ideas of which we came up with. This will help us plan what our real actors should wear and help relfect a formal style fo video.
Whilst creating the animatic we made various changes to the storyboard, for example the fading transitions at the beginning, reflecting the slow pace of the music. We then mirrored this idea for the end of the song to create consistency and also show that the music is slowing down again.
We had to find a powerful and unique shot for our final shot, so we began thinking of things we could use in the church. Candles and darkness gave a good contrast for our final scene so we thought that we could have the singer blowing out a candle at the end of the song. We then had to decide which shot to use, and we had two good choices. The first of these was a long shot whereby you could only see the singer blowing out the candle and the light coming through the stained glass window. Another idea was to end with a close up of the singer blowing out the candle and the whole screen fading to black.
We chose the final idea as our final shot because we thought it was more emotive and relevant to the lyrics. We knew that we then needed to incorporate candles into the music video throughout so that the video made sense, so we decided to have various candles dotted around the setting of the video.
When we started A2 we understood that no one within out group had any experience with Final Cut Express (FCE) at all, and so we each did individual research into learning how to use FCE and then shared our knowledge with the rest of the group. Our group member named Elliot used a Tutorial book called 'Final Cut Express, Video Editing for the Digital Enthusiast' to learn some basic video editing techniques that would be necessary for the completion of the storyboard and eventually, the video itself.
I went ahead and started looking into Final Cut video tutorials on youtube and the web. I found a really good user called 'FinalCutKing' and looking through his videos i found them useful within my research although i later discovered that he worked on a program called Final Cut Pro, this being different to Express we had a few problems when testing out some of his ideas. But for now here is an example of something we found and liked with his work:
Soon Me and my group had learned how to:
* Insert video clips and audio onto the timeline and move them around * Insert and manipulate text onto the video * Insert and manipulate video transitions * Render the clips
Within our group we focus mainly on me and Jamie doing the Editing and Elliot would be working more on the ancillary task, understanding that at one point we'll be working on both tasks at the same time.
After meeting with 'St. Michael's and All Angels' Church we chose our placement of where we wished to record and asked the reverend questions of which we wanted to know. For example, we asked if we were allowed to move anything, where the exits are, light switches and other things.
He gladly answered our questions and was happy to work with us. I then asked him about any thing he wished to know. He was mainly concerned with what the song was about and if it had any blasphemy within the lyrics. After which he only told us of how we would arrange to meet and then allowed us to take photos and start planning things ahead of time.
