Setting justifications

The scene in our music video with the couple playing in the woods is quite a common setting for indie fold music videos. Indie folk videos also use a lot of outdoor settings and this is why we chose to have quite a lot of our video set outside. I watched loads of indie music videos like Gabrielle Aplin, Ben Howard, Laura Marling and First Aird Kit and nature settings are common places to find in the videos. (See photos below)

Title sequence editing practice

We messed around with some different ways of doing title sequences on Adobe Premiere. I got some footage that I will be using in my final piece just to have a play with the different methods. What we did was got a video and applied text over the top so the only footage seen was through the text (seen below) then made the font larger until the whole screen was just the footage not the text anymore. This workshop was quite useful in terms of if we did decide to do a title sequence howver at the moment we probably wont because it isnt cthat common among music videos of this genre.

First 17 seconds

Even though its only 17 seconds at the moment it hasn't quite worked how I wanted it to because at the beginning of the shot with the close up on the photo there are black strips at the top and the bottom of the video but on all of the ones before there aren't these black strips. As well as this, when we zoom in on the photo, the black boxes disappear but they're at the top and bottom of the next section of footage. I would like to make this consistent throughout my video so i will either remove the black strip completely or make sure its there the whole time.

Target Audience

Weather forecast

We were going to film our campfire scene the Thursday (19th November) but after looking at the weather forecast this is probably not the best idea because we need it to be dry and clear (ish- a little cloud shouldn't be a problem) but a shown in the screenshot above it is meant to be crazily rainy which is OUTRAGEOUS! But it is the weather so we can't do much to change that anyway. After checking the weather for next week, it appears to be only cloudy but no rain so we plan to postpone our filming until then.

We also decided not to include our bonfire scene because the weather has been so bad recently and it means that it might not be dry enough to start a fire that will last long enough to do this shot. We also found that after most of our other filming we have enough raw material to fill all the time we need in our music video.

More setting up

Attention to Detail

Apologies for the lack of sound in this video! Here I am just talking about what we've already set up and why we've set it up as we have. So we put the hay bales in there because in indie folk music videos there are often hay bales. Like in Ben Howard's Keep Your Head Up. (See below)

As well as this we decided to put fairy lights over the hay bales, the drums and wrapped around the mics because this is also quite common in other indie folk music videos. An example of this is Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons and Ho Hey by The Lunineers. (See below) Indie Folk music videos also normally are lit with yellow light (Like Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons)

We decided to have a black/unlit background with only the space our band will be in because this is also another common feature of indie music videos like James Bay's Hold back the river.

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The importance of Mise-En-Scene

 This was the drama studio when we first arrived to set up for our band. We had to move everything out of the way in order to set up the instruments and lights. We filmed the first couple of minutes of us setting up the room.

When our actors arrived w=they quickly got changed into their costumes and were given their instruments. We briefed them (seen above) about what they needed to do, what we expected from them and we went through our risk assessment to make sure everyone is safe.

This is what the whole drama studio looked like when we had completely finished setting up and when all our actors were in position.

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