Construction

When making and producing our video we tried to keep everything in keeping with the genre and style of video we wanted to achieve. The methods we used when planning helped us a great deal when making the video. When making the video we wanted to keep it as simple as possible and keep everything in keeping with everything else. For example, even though the actual music in the video has an almost sombre tone the lyrics and meaning of the song are quite positive so because of that we tried to keep it a positive video with aspects such as the lighting trying to get shots with sunny windows and open doors and making sure there is a light source in the majority of shots, encompassing pathetic fallacy.





As you can see we took a range of shots at different times of the day and night to add to the mood which is also known as pathetic fallacy, which is when the mood being portrayed is represented by the outside or the weather.

As regards to shot type construction we tried to get in as many shots as could to keep a wide variety and to keep the video interesting, for example at point in the video when our actor was singing we used a worms - eye view shot to emphasise his power and also emphasise the lyrics he was singing which happened to be about power and dominance and coming over his fears.



This shot is an example of a worms eye view shot.


When it came to aspects such as props and costume we kept it as simple and realistic as possible we didn't really use any extra, we filmed in a house and all the props were already there and the costume was just our actors normal clothes which kept the video down to earth and simple which was our goal at the beginning. Also having the use of an HD camera aided us greatly as it gave us the chance to have the best quality possible for our project and we do think that it did give us an edge on our project. this was also aided by having the right programme on our computer for when we wanted to start editing.