At the start of the editing process we had a lip syncing lesson with miss excel in order to show us how to sync our music with our footage. This lesson was obviously very helpful when it came to editing footage and lip syncing for ourselves.
After filming for the first time i was not at all happy with the footage i had produced. Whilst i had produced some good scenery shots to establish my setting and mise en scene, my lip syncing shots where very poor and there wasn't a lot to work with. But as i come to editing i ended up using some of the shots in my final production.
My story line played out by abigail and alex worked very well throughout my editing process, they way i filmed my footage allowed to me do little sequences of their action creating depth and interest in my piece.
It was suggested to us that we film our artist lip syncing the song all the way through as when i came to the editing process it would be easier. In doing this i found that this was really helpful and that once all the part where lined up on the timeline it was very easy to chop and chain through narrative shots and different lip syncing shots.
At the very end of my piece i chose to use and effect of fade to white to give my music video a finished feel.
For my artist i also decided that i wanted to create a quite old fashioned image and was inspired by the idea of a 70's vinal record for example like that of Simon and Garfunkle. i feel that my font choice which to me has a country and western, outdoor, frontier feel to it also added to this idea of and old record and also of the autumn atmosphere i have tried to create. I portrayed these ideas on the front cover by using a close up image of his long hair and using and orange hue over the image to create and old but natural look. In my Music video my artist comes across as quite mysterious and whilst the lyrics of the song could be quite sad the actual melody is quite fun yet my artist says relatively neutral which is something i wanted to change within my digipak, showing a different side to my artist which i have done through his huge smile on the front cover and smile as he plays his guitar on the back cover.
My inlay was somewhat of a tricky one, i started of by just having the leaves again and realised that i definitely needed something more, so i thought about the aspects of my artist that i hadn't yet explored and it quickly came to me that i had not highlighted my artists instrument: the guitar. I decided to create the idea of a coat of arms or a skull and cross bones to add again to my artist personality that wasn't completely expressed in my music video, this i felt would make my artist more appealing and more of a sellable artist. so i took to acoustic guitars again orange and brown to go with the colour scheme and put them across eachother with my in the back playing with the opacity to have him in the background of the guitars to achieve this skull and cross bones, coat of arms affect that gives my artist edge but also could become my artist symbol similar to that used by Queen.
