Today Sarah and I continued to work on our video. Our work from last week did not save properly and therefore we had to start from scratch. This turned out well as the new draft was more organised. But losing the first copy wasn’t a disaster because Sarah created and saved each scene as a ‘Quicktime’ format, which meant we just had to import the videos again and fit them into the right place.
Today we added some sound effects to the first part of our video. We found these from the internet and downloaded them. The sound clips we used were paper rustling, a light being switched on, footsteps and a door shutting. We wanted to add these sound clips to make our stop motion more realistic like its a proper video, as it was silence before the music kicked in. It also helps understand that the person is walking away from the book and out the door instead of just seeing the hands disappear. I think these clips work quite well although making our own effects would have been more realistic as they are the same textures and objects as in the video.
We also went back to our storyboard sheets and realised we didn’t have enough videos to fill the whole song. With time running out for the completion of our video, we decided to cut the length of the song. We took out the bridge because the two chorus’ fitted well without it. This was a good part to cut and found the song is still seamless without it. We all agreed this was a beneficial move as we all could now focus on finishing the video and completing the CD cover and magazine advert. We found that reviewing our existing video showed us the gaps that we needed to fill. These gaps of video that we have yet to film are now fully developed ideas that we can get on and shoot as soon as possible. There are 4 small videos and a photograph that tell the story of ‘Tom’ and ‘Emily’ our characters in the videos that needs to be filmed. We made a to do list and these are the ideas:
Video 1: This video will be filmed in a park on the swings. Tom will be pushing Emily on a swing.
Video 2: This video is of the characters playing hide and seek around a tree.
Video 3: Tom giving Emily a bunch of flowers.
Video 4: Emily rejecting the gift
Photograph at end: Flowers scattered on the floor.
The first two videos show the relationship between Tom and Emily. These will be romantic and show the couple happy and in love. The last 2 videos and photograph illustrate the breaking up of the relationship over a sequence of three. The whole video together shows the deterioration of the relationship as a flashback, because at the beginning of the video we see divorce papers that foreshadows the events to come.
