(Developed Idea)
(Original Idea)
In order for my partner and I to create a sophisticated and successful music video it is important that we experiment with different aspects and try out new ideas. We decided that to portray the lyrics 'lost in a fairytale' it would be effective to show the artist as though she was trapped in a glass ball. The best way we could think of achieving this was originally to place a still photo image inside the glass dome. We chose to pose the photo in a way which would look like she was pushing against the glass as if she is 'trapped'. We began to think about how we could expand on this idea into something more sophisticated. We began to explore into how we could make it look like the artist was actually inside the dome and moving around inside it.
Firstly we shot the female playing the singer against a blue background. We tried a range of different movements to make it look as though she was walking around inside the dome, banging against the front of the dome as though trying to get out and also feeling the edges of the dome and rocking from side to side.
Once the footage had been transferred on to the editing suite the blue background gave us the opportunity to make the background appear invisible. We then recorded some footage of the glass dome as it was been shaken up, when it was empty at the required location in which we wanted the scene to take place. Once this had been transferred onto the editing program we simply took still footage of the dome as the snow is in the air and stretched it for 6 seconds. We then edited the blue background footage so that only the singer was visible and cropped the image to fit snugly inside the dome and finally faded it inside the dome.
Although there are significant improvements to be made we can see from this small experiment that our idea is possible and with a few tweaks such as setting changes and framing work our video will look professional.
