Ideas For Music Video

Our Director Josh has decided to make a video to a song called Midnight Workers. This song is completely instrumental and almost 5 min long. At first the length of the song came across very intimidating and nervracking but after discussing a few times with Josh what he wanted the final video to look like it became less and less of and issue. We were able to talk about a few different routes we could take if need be and eventually got on the same page as a group.

Josh wants to film mostly human shadows on a wall. He wants this woman’s shadow to move and dance in a poetic soft manner. When he mentioned this and then played the song I could vision my idea of what I though he wanted.

Being Dp and lead editor I plan on helping Josh  receive the shots and angles that he wants to the best of my ability. I have some great ideas as far as the angles go, such as one laying on the ground looking up at the wall and the shadow. As far as editing, I always have fun ideas. I'm really excited to edit his video. I really like the look of film when it is layered together and I think I could have a lot of fun with this piece. And I believe in myself to have the ability to make this video as close to josh’s vision as possible!

Shooting with Film

What did I learn? Along with the sound project, this question, to me, is more of a “What did you do before and how are you going to fix it?” question.

I have also previously worked on a project very similar. Last time we ended up exposing half of our film because we opened the back of the camera and did not wind the film back after shooting the last photo. So this time we made sure it was rewound all the way. Also we picked two locations that had quite a bit more to work with.

One thing that was different this time from last time was that we were using me Cannon digital camera to test the photos before we took the actual picture but the photos on film looked nothing like what they did on the digital. I did this with the last project and it seemed to work fine so I’m not sure what went wrong this time. Our experimental roll wasn’t very experimental and I will take blame for that. Although they weren’t very experimental I still wish we had done more to alter the way the film looked. For example using a glass cup or cling wrap etc.