Our final video

Linked below is the final version of our music video:

Overall, I am very pleased with the outcome of our music video. As a group, we faced many different issues throughout the filing and editing processes and I believe that we overcame these in the best possible ways that we could, allowing us to end with the final piece that we have created.

We decided to place an establishing shot before the beginning of the song. This shot displays my character looking out to the sea, obviously deep in thought. Including this shot in the beginning of our video helps to set the scene for the rest of the video. We decided to place the titles of the video on this shot as the partial silence behind the shot allow the viewer to truly take them in as the shot behind is very plain and simple. We included the very faint sound of the waves crashing in the background of this shot. We did this to help to establish the atmosphere of the piece. To do this, we used the sound from a different clip that we filmed for the video and placed it beneath the video shown.

One of my favourite elements of the video is the change between black and white to colour used throughout. This change in colour is very symbolic and helps to support much of the narrative of our video. We decided to use black and white throughout the shots of mine and Josh's characters together. We did this as we wanted to display the lack of connection between the two and my character's feelings towards him and towards their relationship. The use of black and white continues through the introduction of Jade's character as during this section of the video, the relationship between the pair is purely platonic. When mine and Josh's characters experience their breakup and Jade's character becomes the main focus, the shots begin to change to colour. This represents my characters change in emotion and mindset, displaying her feelings towards Jade. This change in emotion is also shown through the mise-en-scene within the shots,  showing my character smiling and being far happier when she is spending time with Jade in comparison to the shots from the beginning of the video where she was unhappy in her relationship with Josh.

Another aspect of our video that I like is the use of slow motion throughout. This broad use of slow motion was inspired by the video ‘if they only knew’ by Alfie Arcuri. In this video, the use of slow motion added during the editing process allowed for the shots to appear almost dreamlike, adding to the atmosphere of the piece. Using this in our video had the same effect, displaying the confusion that my character faces in her mind throughout.