Location Choices

Location Choices

We have included various locations to use in our video. Clayfield Copse is our main one. We chose to use Clayfield Copse as it is a big forest. We wanted somewhere empty so we could have the main actress walking around on her own. Also there are many trees in Clayfield Copse and we wanted trees to be nearby as we wanted leaves in our video. We wanted leaves because is gives that Autumn/Winter effect which is wanted for our music video as it has connotations of winter in the lyrics. There are also quite a lot of hills at Clayfield Copse. We are planning to shoot off fireworks and being on a field will make that idea more effective. The fireworks and sparklers will be viewed from a distance.

Another location in our video is the main actresses house as it gives the effect of the family side of the story behind the lyrics. We will be adding in old home videos and pictures that were taken before her uncle passed away. Therefore the main actresses house will be in the video.

Another location in our video may be a hospital room. We will be using this location only if we are allowed and if it is possible. We were thinking about using a hopital room to get some specific footage as the lyrics of the song we are doing make some references to being in a hospital "bed bound". If this idea fails we have considered going to the main actresses house and trying to turn one of her rooms into a sort of hospital styled room. We will attempt to do this by using hospital related things such as a white bed, white lamp and just white things in general.

 

Actors And Props

Actors And Props

Actors:

Louise is the main person in our video. She's the main focus in the video and is the main actress. The only other time we see other people on our video is when the flashbacks appear and when Louise is thinking about old memories. The other people are Louise's family members.

Props:

As a group, we have decided to include old footage and pictures which have been previously recorded and taken as most of them include Louise's uncle in them. They will also emphasise the fact that he is gone now and will show how the past was different to now. This therefore means that the props and people included within those scenes will be out of our hands.

In our video at this precise moment we don't really have any props apart from the main actresses guitar. The main actress is actually playing the guitar as well. Apart from the guitar we don't really have any props as we only really recorded the actress outside by herself.

Other props that we will need to consider within the other scenes include:

- Fireworks and Sparklers
- Christmas related props: Christmas tree, decorations etc.
- Hospital related props: White bed, white lamp and just white things in general.
- Microphone: Will be included within the music video in scene where the main actress will be singing in a dark room by herself.

Costume Ideas

Costume Ideas

We have chosen to keep everything plain and simple. The type of clothing will be plain and casual. As it is Winter, the main actress is wearing a Winter coat, also the rest of her clothing will be appropriate for Winter.The colour of the clothing is neutral, for example the colour of the main actresses coat in parts of our video is Khaki. Throughout the video the main actress will only change once or twice. The outfits will always be plain and casual though.

We have decided to make the clothing match to what season it is. As well as this being appropriate we have done this because it fits the scene and makes the shot look better. For example there is a shot where the main actress is singing and leaves start to blow around her, so we thought her in a Winter coat would look good.

As the main actress is mainly the only person in our video, we only really need to worry about her costumes. There are other people in our video but they are the main actresses family members and they're part of a memory so we don't need to worry about their costumes as it is old footage.

The main actress will have her hood up to represent the parts of the song that are about shutting yourself off from the rest of the world and feeling lonely. The dull colour scheme will enable any other colours or effects e.g. the fireworks to really stand out.

 

iMovie 09

iMovie 09

Last year me and my group created a video using iMovie 09. We had never used iMovie 09 before so we didn't know how to do anything. So we taught ourselves and it was just trial and error whilst making our video. Using iMovie 09 we was able to make the video in black and white, add in transitions and cut down the clips to the length we wanted them to be. We was also able to cut out the sounds and put the music in with the video.

Once we understood how to do everything, we got the hang of it and knew how to do what we wanted to do.

Below is our music video. This video was the first video that we used iMovie 09 to create. 

To import clips onto iMovie 09 you will need to import the clips from either a camera which you have used to film or from the computer you are using iMovie 09 on. Once the clips have been uploaded they will appear in the event section at the bottom of the IMove 09 screen. The event section lets you keep your clips organised and if you use a clip, an orange line appears underneath the clip to show that you have used that specific clip. To then add these clips to the actual video you have drag the cursor over the part of the clip you want and then click on the clip and drag it into the top section of the iMovie 09 screen.

Before adding the clips, if you want to cut them down then you do this in the event section. You click on the clip that you want to cut down and an orange line should appear around the whole clip. Then all you have to do is drag the end of the orange line down to cut the clip down to whatever length you want.

Once you have added all of your clips to the top section of the iMovie screen you can then add transaction such as wipes to make the clips flow from one to the other. You can also remove the original sound from the clips such as background noises and voices. After you have muted all of the clips, you can add your music. To edit the original sound, you need to double click on the clip and select audio and then select the audio link, this will take you to the audio section of the clip. Once you have down this you need to turn the volume of the clip down or fully mute it. To change when the music begins to fade into silence you need to add a 'fade to black' transition at the very end of the video, and elongate the timing of the transition to, for example, 10 seconds, this means that the music and the video will start to fade out 10 seconds before the music video finishes.

You import any sound the same was as you imported the clips. As long as the sound is a file you can import it the same way as the clips and again, it appears in the event section at the bottom of the iMovie 09 screen and again, to add it you drag it to the top section of the iMovie 09 screen.

Transitions can be found at the bottom right of the iMovie screen. You can use these wherever in your video. It's best to use them to make clips flow from one to another. A fade is really effective at the end of a video, it is effective as if shows that the video has ended.

Text is useful for introducing your video, subtitles and annotations, identifying speakers, closing credits and more. In iMovie there are a variety of 'titles', many of which can be adjusted and customized. To access the titles, click the T button, which opens the title pane with all of iMovie’s pre-made title templates.