Production & Post-Production
Behind The Scenes With Sam
Here is the behind the scenes video for filming the music video. This basically goes over how the day went with narration by me. Reece from college was kind enough to help film the majority of it on some short notice which I am very grateful for.
Draft One
I created this first draft on the first day back at college after filming and this was used to get all of the best footage into a video to see what I have to work with and get some feedback. Even for a first draft, seeing my vision finally come alive has really sparked my motivation which I have lacked slightly for a few weeks. I know at this point I have 2 weeks before the first deadline and seeing how quick I was able to produce this has filled me with more confidence to finish this project on a high.
Some of the feedback I received from Paul was known, for example, the lack of sound in the first clip. I will add the ambience back in the next draft, along with the text bubbles. I also really like the idea of changing the colour of the flashback, it's not something I would’ve thought to do but I will be adding it in a later draft. Obviously, there are a few pointers on camera issues and lip-syncing which I will try to fix as well as I can.
Draft Two
This edit was made to fix any major mistakes from the first draft as well as improve upon the feedback given by Paul. One of the main sections I work on was the first shot in my bedroom. I added some ambience, added the text animation as well as some sound effects to go with it. I also made sure the lip-syncing was fixed too. One of the other things I focused on improving was the narrative elements in the chorus' as I cut them down to remove the autofocus mistakes. This was an error on my part but I don't know why it happened so much as non of the other shots have the same problem.
I will follow Paul's feedback for the next draft which means I will remake the text bubbles to time it all better and to fit with the story as well as de-saturate the story elements more and look at adding the title graphic at the start.
Creating the final text bubbles
To create the text bubble animation, I started off by drafting some initial ideas for the messages in my notepad and then typed them into iMessage and sent them to myself. I would delete the messages that weren't needed to get the graphic. I screenshotted these and put the screenshot into Photoshop to remove the background, resize them and draft them onto where I wanted them on the screen. I saved them all separately as PNGs and imported them into my timeline on Premiere Pro where I used keyframes to create an animation with a drop shadow effect to make it fit in better. This took a while to do as I kept changing the messages, for example, Hope wanted her name to be altered and chose Emily. As well as this Paul said about changing the messages to still fit the narrative so I did that as I agreed.
