Below you can see my final video. Overall I'm very proud of it, I feel the music together with the moving works extremely well, I have explored the good and the bad sides of love as well as developing my own individual editing technique.
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Quote & Title
As well as the video, I also wanted to include a quote at the start of the video, to almost explain the ideology behind it, yet I still wanted it to come across more like a fact which I am stating. I wanted to get across how love from afar and love which turns into obsession is in fact no love at all and that extreme love can very quickly develop into hate.
The quote reads like this...
Our love for those from afar can hurt both the loving and the loved.
Because in fact remote love is no love at all and in just the quickest flash adoration can invoke despair.
I also chose the title The Affliction of Love, as I wanted to show how afflicting love can be and how love and turn from the traditional meaning of the word.
The quote reads like this...
Our love for those from afar can hurt both the loving and the loved.
Because in fact remote love is no love at all and in just the quickest flash adoration can invoke despair.
I also chose the title The Affliction of Love, as I wanted to show how afflicting love can be and how love and turn from the traditional meaning of the word.
Extra Footage & Animation
As well as the filming I had already done, I still wanted to included a small portion of animation as I'd enjoyed it on the last project, this gave the video a different dynamic and bridged certain moments of the film together. As well as providing more of a contextual response to love, through the use of the symbol of the heart.
Below you can see the thumbnails for the shoot for the animation. I wanted to keep them very simple with literally just the face and reaction shot showing. The face shows at the start some very over the top ecstatic expressions before she buries her head in her arms as if taking pictures of her has become too much for her to bear. Below those images you can see the ones that I took of the love heart sweets as well as the pigs heart.
I shot all these images in Raw, giving me more opportunity to edit the images to the exact strong striking style that I wanted my work to have.
Below you can see the thumbnails for the shoot for the animation. I wanted to keep them very simple with literally just the face and reaction shot showing. The face shows at the start some very over the top ecstatic expressions before she buries her head in her arms as if taking pictures of her has become too much for her to bear. Below those images you can see the ones that I took of the love heart sweets as well as the pigs heart.
I shot all these images in Raw, giving me more opportunity to edit the images to the exact strong striking style that I wanted my work to have.
Editing The Video
Similar to my last project I once again used the video editing software Sony Vegas. This time editing was a much longer length process, as I editing the last video was just a series of line up images to the music, this time I was chopping and changing between shots every second or so trying to tell the story through the use of different and interesting camera angles and techniques. Similar to the style of editing that director Chris Cunningham used in his work.
Below you can see a screen capture of this process and what I was doing in Sony Vegas.
I also applied various visual effects to the footage, in particularly by increasing the brightness/contrast of the clips as well as adding image filters and effects to my work. I also used a spotlight effect to subtly highlight key moments and objects in the video, such as the moment where she opens the box to discover the pig's heart.
Below you can see a screen capture of this process and what I was doing in Sony Vegas.
I also applied various visual effects to the footage, in particularly by increasing the brightness/contrast of the clips as well as adding image filters and effects to my work. I also used a spotlight effect to subtly highlight key moments and objects in the video, such as the moment where she opens the box to discover the pig's heart.
Shoot Feeback
Overall the I feel the shoot went extremely well, I think we followed the narrative and the use of the handheld camera similar to the direction in that of Black Swan was extremely effective. What I found most interesting was how good Queens Square looked in the video, the old fashioned feel that that area of Bristol I feel will create a strong atmosphere for my video, when I've edited the footage together. Now I will also use photography to capture a series of still images which will be the animation side of my project.
Shoot & Prop Plan
For the shoot I will need to make sure that I have also the things I need to bring alive my draft treatment, I will buy the pigs heart from the butchers as well as the love heart sweets. As well as this I also need to print of the ton of fan mail or hate mail which plays a huge part in telling the story of the video.
My plan is to film the majority of the film inside a large empty house. However to add some dynamic to the video I will also film outside during the night. The best place I managed to find which had enough lighting was Queen's Square in Bristol, the old fashioned street lamps as well as the traditional houses surrounding the square I help create a stronger mood for my video.
Initial Draft & Run Through
Below is the original draft treatment for the plan of the narrative which is going to feature in my video.
The shot opens with the image of a door, all of a sudden paper messages start to fly at a sped up pace through the letterbox. The camera cuts to the words on these paper messages which read all sorts of things like LOVE YOU, HATE YOU, OBSESSED WITH YOU and LOVE ME. These messages are supposed to be fanmail and as the camera pans we see that we are left with a large pile of these letters on the floor.
The video then cuts to a shot of a blonde girl (seen in previous projects) in a floaty dress, bursting through the kitchen door discovering fan mail on the floor she stops, picks up the mail rolling around in it and throwing it up in the hair, seemingly ecstatic with the fact that everyone seems to love she goes outside in the darkness for a walk. Where she discovers a giant LOVE YOU teddy bear, she plays with it innocently as before running around in the streetlight full of joy. She also finds a rose on the floor, she picks it up before running off with it.
As the music changes she once again comes bursting through the door however this time, she's dressed in black, looks harder and more dramatic. She turns on the light in the kitchen and this time there is hate mail scattered all over the floor with phrases such as HATE YOU and DIE. Obviously distressed by this the female character looks horrified. As she wanders around the house desperate trying to piece together what's going on, she notices a box at the front door. The box is clearly labeled I GIVE YOU MY HEART, she bends down cautiously before opening, where the camera pans to reveal that there is a real beating heart inside of the box. She instantly drops the box looking horrified as the video ends.
The shot opens with the image of a door, all of a sudden paper messages start to fly at a sped up pace through the letterbox. The camera cuts to the words on these paper messages which read all sorts of things like LOVE YOU, HATE YOU, OBSESSED WITH YOU and LOVE ME. These messages are supposed to be fanmail and as the camera pans we see that we are left with a large pile of these letters on the floor.
The video then cuts to a shot of a blonde girl (seen in previous projects) in a floaty dress, bursting through the kitchen door discovering fan mail on the floor she stops, picks up the mail rolling around in it and throwing it up in the hair, seemingly ecstatic with the fact that everyone seems to love she goes outside in the darkness for a walk. Where she discovers a giant LOVE YOU teddy bear, she plays with it innocently as before running around in the streetlight full of joy. She also finds a rose on the floor, she picks it up before running off with it.
As the music changes she once again comes bursting through the door however this time, she's dressed in black, looks harder and more dramatic. She turns on the light in the kitchen and this time there is hate mail scattered all over the floor with phrases such as HATE YOU and DIE. Obviously distressed by this the female character looks horrified. As she wanders around the house desperate trying to piece together what's going on, she notices a box at the front door. The box is clearly labeled I GIVE YOU MY HEART, she bends down cautiously before opening, where the camera pans to reveal that there is a real beating heart inside of the box. She instantly drops the box looking horrified as the video ends.
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