I have now reached the 2 minute mark in the construction of my music video. The editing is coming along nicely and I think the video had clear structure. Before talking about the new additions to the video, I will talk about the changes that I have made to the existing parts of the video.
I have in fact only made one change to the previous video so far. It was a change suggested by a respondent in my hot desking activity. The person said 'The lyrics that are typed around 00:30 could perhaps be more successful if they were overlaid onto existing footage'. I value this person's opinion as they are also studying media A level so I know that they have adequate knowledge to provide helpful comments. By taking this comment into consideration as a re-watched the original version of my music video, I could completely see what this person meant. This prompted me to alter the way the lyrics here are presented. Originally they appeared on screen over a background of solid colours which dissolved into each other. This was not very stimulating to look at, especially for a house music video such as mine which I aim to use interesting visual graphics in. For this reason I removed the dissolving solid colours and replaced them with mirrored footage of a car driving on a road which also changes colour. I believe this is along the lines of what my peer was inferring in my hot desking feedback. I also believe that it is much more aesthetically pleasing than the original composition.
Now to talk about the new additions. When the compilation of kaleidoscopes finishes at about 1:10 I have added a short section featuring footage of an aeroplane and it's vapor trail in the sky. I have changed the sky purple to add to the manipulated theme of the video. The plane can be seen to change direction, speed and it is mirrored in various ways, changing at each beat of a drum. This is all done whiles the lyrics are typed over the top in the same way as the first set of lyrics. I have made this section because the music becomes momentarily slow. I have emphasised the pace of music which gradually slows down by gradually dissolving the sky from blue to purple.
Next I have emphasised the way in which the pace of music suddenly slows and then dramatically speeds up again by fading the aeroplane composition to black and then introducing a pink circular audio spectrum which visually outlines the music waves. Over the top of this is more kinetic typography which, this time, remain and fill the whole screen until the verse is over.
The last four seconds of this edit features broken up footage of two teenage boys who are seen through a triangle that is cut out of a kaleidoscope. I see this part of the video as a window looking out into the real world from the crazy psychedelic world that is this music video. I chose to blur the footage of the boys because I wanted to get minimal human representation in the video; it is supposed to represent and emphasise a computer generated genre of music. This section of the video was originally not blurred and didn't have any kaleidoscope in it. I thought this made it look too real and I changed this just before uploading.
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