To get us used to using the cameras again after a 6 month break from filming, Sir told us to film a short video - nothing too serious or professional.
I decided to use a song by 'The Neighbourhood', as they are the band I am using for my main project. I used the song 'Afraid' because, not only was it stuck in my head when we got assigned to do the filming, but I thought the chorus would be quite easy to put images to.
I used my younger brother as my main (and only) actor as I thought it would be more effective and powerful to do a simple video for this song, rather than using a lot of people, especially because it is our first project of this year.
I stuck with the black and white theme of 'The Neighbourhood''s videos, and even got my brother to dress in dark clothing as the mise-en-scene of a music video is just as, if not more, important than the mise-en-scene of a film.
I filmed all of the shots free-hand as I didn't have access to a tripod, but I am extremely pleased with how smooth the pans are and how steady a lot of the shots have turned out.
In the second-from-last scene of the video, I used an editing technique which is used frequently in music videos of The Neighbourhood songs - cutting one long clip of the actor walking and using fade-to-black transitions to show the passing of time, rather than showing the whole clip in full.
As I edited this clip at home, I used iMovie as opposed to Adobe Premiere software which we have on the school computers, so my editing isn't as smooth as I'd like, but I now know how to use iMovie more than I did an hour ago - its true what they say, you do learn something new everyday!
Anyway, here's my video...
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