Shot list

I tried to use a range of different camera shots and angles to create different effects on each shot, I feel I did this successfully and included a wide range of shots.

Here is the shot list for my music video listed in chronological order:

• Point of view shot walking in different locations (x15)
• Close up of clock
• Zooming in on the clock
• Extreme close up of clock  
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the word 'change' 
• Extreme close up of light pixels created by car headlights
•  Close up of ticking clock displayed over long shot of moving transport 
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change'
• Panning shot of rural setting 
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change' (x3)
• Tracking mid shot of the protagonist in the video 
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change'
• Close up of voice recording equipment 
• Dutch tilt close up of voice recording equipment
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change'
• Point of view shot walking (x2)
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change' (x3)
• Close up of voice recording equipment
• Close up of money
• Close up of money played over mid tracking shot of the protagonist in the video
• Dutch tilt angled shot of path 
• Dutch tilt angled shot of path reversed 
• Long shot of changing traffic lights
• High angled shot garden (x3)
• Panning shot of street lamp (x3)
• Long shot of moving transport 
• Long shot of moving transport reversed 
• Long shot of moving transport original 
• Zoomed in and out shot on moving transport 
• Panning shot of park fence 
• Panning shot of park fence reversed 
• Panning shot of park fence original 
• Close up of voice recording equipment (x3) 
• Tracking shot (mid shot) of protagonist walking
• Extreme close up of mouth saying the lyric in the song 'change'
• Panning shot of zoomed traffic lights

(Cross dissolve transition) 

Editing my footage

Editing is extremely important and crucial to the house music genre as videos in the category are differentiate from the rest due to their style of editing; to make my video fit into the house music genre I needed to ensure I stuck to the high level of editing throughout my video. 

The most obvious use of editing I used on my video was cutting the clips, I used clean cut editing on all the shots to create verisimilitude; I also did this as it meant the transition from each shot was as quick and precise as the changing of each beat which made it fit more with the song. However I used one cross dissolve transition at the very end of the music video to allow the clip to fade out slowly with the ending of the track rather than finishing quickly and cutting out the end of the song. Another setting I used was the precision editor, this was particularity useful when editing my lip syncing as it would pin point exactly when and where vocals where detected making it a lot easier to sync the track with the movement of the lip sync-er.   

I used a range of filters to give an unorthodox appearance to certain scenes within my video, I did this on the IMovie software which had build in filters that I could use. The filters I used the most was the negative and the x-ray as I felt these were he most effective and linked well the the genre, the other filters were only enhancing the slips where as I needed them to look completely different. 

Similarly to the effect created by the filters, I experimented with the use of colour in certain scenes, particularly on the shots with the watch as the clip itself could be seen as quite plain and boring and I didn't want to create this effect for my video. I did this by double clicking the chosen clip and selecting the 'video' tab on the tool bar, this brought up a colour wheel which allowed me to change the background tinge on the clip. This worked epically well edited over filters, as the x-ray filter cut out all the colour making it stark and clear, then the coloured added to this made it look more weird and unique; shown here on the image of the clock. 

Another key editing feature I used was the changing the speed, I did this by first optimizing the clips so I was enabled to either slow down or speed up clips; once I had done this I was able to change it, mostly I sped up the clips especially in the first sequence when I filmed point of view shots of the different locations. I Fast forwarded these clips on the by x4 as I wanted them to fast but not too fast so the speed of the walk looked unrealistic. However on some sections of the video I used the maximum speed of x20 to create an extra quick effect, I did this on the build of the song where the music hits its fasted speed, this looked really effective and fit the song perfectly. In the middle section of the video I also slowed down some clips, especially on the section of the song when the temp changes to a slower pace for a around 20 seconds, this gave me the opportunity to experiment with the other end of speed scale.   

Another key element of editing I used throughout the duration of my video was the advanced tools option installed within the software. I enabled this by clicking on the IMovie tab located at the top of the screen in the left corner, this then gave a few options and I clicked the 'preferences' option. This then brought up a tab with an option to turn on advanced tools, I ticked the box and this then enabled even more editing settings.  

Then when I dragged a clip from the bottom section and placed it over another clip in my current project it gave me a number of options.

These allowed me to put clips over other clips, the setting I used most in my video was the 'Cutaway' option; this allowed me to place a clip directly on top of another one whilst showing them at the same time. To ensure you could see both clips over one another I had to edit the opacity. I did this by moving the mouse up and down the bar located next to the opacity icon, usually placing it around the middle which create a equal balance in the two shots. 

I repeated this effect a number of times in my music video and thought it was really effective, giving a whole new extraordinary appearance to two basic shots. 

Changes made to my music video

The changes I made to my music video involved adding a lot more face pace edited clips, my audience feedback told me that this was really successful and worked well with the genre of the track. I took on this advice as filmed a range of new shots to be added and edited. 

I made three main changes to my video that I gathered for my audience feedback, these were:

• Using more fast pace editing
• Adding more effects, edits and filters 
• Adding lip syncing 

This included one of my props, the clock; I filmed this lock over a 3 minute period to capture it moving from one time to another, I edited this so every time the beat changed I inserted a very quick flash of negative lighting to break up the clips, this also gave the effect of fast pace editing. 

I also played around with a range of shot edits, to create interesting effect on the scenes, for example on this shot I played one clip over another by dragging and dropping the the shot. This combination of shots worked well as it transformed two ordinary, plain clips in to something more interesting to watch.  

Another big change I made to my music video was including lip syncing, originally I didn't want to include lip syncing as it wasn't very typical of the house music genre. However after gathering audience feedback from my peers it was clear that they thought the video needed an element of this to make it feel more like a real music video, this was also a prime opportunity to showcase my editing skills. I used Liam, playing Alex fiction in my video, for the lip syncing as he appeared in the video once before already.    

Final cut

This is the final cut for my music video, I am extremely pleased with the outcome and think it fits into the house music genre really well. I used all of the shots I intended to and more. I feel I have made huge improvement from my rough cut acting on all the feedback I received, particularly when developing the edits used on certain shots.