New Shot To The Production

We wanted to improve our music video, so during a bank holiday weekend, our group travelled to the Lea Valley river in Hertford to film a couple more nature shots that we can incorporate into our music video. One of these shots was to drop leaves from a bridge into a river and the camera would follow the leaves down the river.

During the editing process we reversed the shot to show the leaves drifting back up instead of falling down. Using Adobe Premiere, we slowed down the speed to show how the leaves are flying up into the air. We placed this shot before the montage seuqence because this sequence is played in a fast speed.

Train Shot-Cut

This is a still image of the train shot that was placed at the beginning of our media production. During the editing process, our group have decided to cut this shot because it didn't fit the concept and style of the music video and it was the odd one out to the rest of the other shots. We were going to use this shot, because it fits in with the lyrics.

News Flash: Changes to our video.

From our feedback from our first cut and as a group, we have come to the conclusion, to not use the train sequence at the beginning of the music video because it does not tie in with the overall feel and style of our music video. We were told it looks "mechanical" and it does not fit in with our overall intention and the storyline of the indie pop song. Our first thought in the planning stage, was to use our actress (Georgia) to get off the train when it reaches the platform to signify that she does not know where to go. We wanted to play with the lyrics visually, so we came up with the idea of using a train.

Instead, we are going to use a motage of shots of the location and we are going to use cross-fades to show the transition. This fits in with our influences from pre-raephalite paintings/films (Pans Labyrinth) and films from the indie genre. (Taking Woodstock)

Maybe we could of used a train in our video, but not a normal train from our local station because visually it looks odd, tacky and out of place. Instead, to keep up with the feel and style of our video, we could of incorporated an old steam train which probably could of worked. The downside of this idea, is that it is very difficult to find an old steam train and to have permission to film on one.