For my A2 media coursework, I created a music video, the song used was "You my Everything" by Ellie Goulding and I was the star, which meant that I performed and lip-synced throughout the song. For AS I created a short film opening that was a couple of minutes long, the title was 'Fixation' and it was a horror film, which involved stalking.
Starting AS level I had no knowledge in media, meaning I had never used an editing programme. We was introduced to adobe premiere pro, which after a couple of attempts I started to enjoy and learn to use. I have had an interest in camera's for quite some time meaning that I knew quite well how to achieve different shots and how to work the video camera's. I had also worked with audacity which is a programme that allows you to record voice-overs, and this became useful.
For our film opening I only used basic effects such as fading and adding sound effects. I extended my knowledge further during A2 level, a music video involves many more faster cuts, which was a lot different to the film opening. For my film opening we only shot once, whereas for our music video we had 5 re-shoots as we massively underestimated the amount of footage that we would need for all the fast cuts. Taking my basic knowledge from AS level, I used the fading effect to merge one shot into another and make it flow faster, although this was not needed as often as the film opening as fast shots were required to keep the audience interested and keep up with the pace of the song.
As I wanted my music video to look as professional and creative as possible I decided to explore further into adobe premiere pro's effects. This involved using effects such as making the image appear multi coloured, and a strobe effect which was useful in parts that the pace picked up of the song so the image was paraell with the beat. Also the layering effect and slow motion was used often throughout our video, as I wanted some scenes to look almost psychedelic. The slow motion really helped to achieve this effect and allowed the audience to almost feel a part of the video, as the motion may make them feel slightly dizzy allowing them to feel the way that the star was portraying.
For our A2 piece we decided to film most of the video outdoors, and I underestimated how difficult this would be. This involved using a generator which neither me or my group at used before, to get the lights to work outside as we were filming at night. As we were filming at night, some of the shots came out slightly grainy and the colour was wrong. This meant that I had to do some colour correction in editing to make the colours look more true to what they should. This technique really helped to make our video look professional as the shots looked sharp. Looking back at my AS film opening, this would of been useful in helping to also make that look professional.
Over the two years I feel like I have turned my small knowledge of editing, to quite a large amount of knowledge.
