Directors Commentary

In this video I have talked over my music video explaining my choices for some of the shots. To do this I have edited my video and lowered the volume of the song and turned up the volume of my voice so that the audience can here me clearly.

Focus group - First Draft of Video

After showing my target audience the first draft of my music video I filmed a focus group. I took all of these comments on board and changed where appropriate. After making these advised changes, I had my final draft.

8 - Production Entry

In this shot I decided to have the raw footage and then edit it to have the same shot tiled four times. I believe that this edit highlighted my artists loneliness and how she only has herself. In the background you can see that there is no other humans, I wanted this to be so to, again, highlight my artists loneliness.

7 - Production Entry

To film this shot I was stood on top of a sand dune, I wanted to capture my artist with a high shot as to make her look inferior. I wanted my artist to be running as to comply with the lyrics 'running, running' and to represent my artist to be 'running' away from her fears. As I liked the raw footage I kept this shot without much editing except for cutting and fitting it into the video where I wanted it. I had to cut the footage a couple of times as I wanted it in different places.

6 - Production Entry

In this shot I wanted the sun to shine so it looked as if my artist was in the ray of sunlight, however the clouds would not let this happen. Also, due to the angle that I wanted to capture, I was unable to use my tripod and so filmed this footage handheld, thus it being slightly wobbly. I only used a short shot of this within my music video as I did not think it was high enough quality to feature more. The clip I did insert into my video I then darkened the colour as I think the white clouds did not go with the rest of my film and having the shot that bit darker allowed my artist to look as if she was thinking about her loved one.

5 - Production Entry

This is my first shot filmed on the beach. I went on to use this shot as the opening establishing shot in my film where I have the name of the song over the clip. I have also edited the shot as to have the edges rounded with a blur effect. Also, I have made this shot black and white which means that the following shot is harder hitting and it does looks pleasing to the audience.

4 - Production Entry

This is my first attempt of using the green screen. As you can see, this footage was unable to be used as my framing was not up to scratch and my artists head was largely out of the shot. However, after viewing my filming I did the shots again, this time taking the framing into account.