Summary of Shots (in first draft)

The title of our song is 'Time' we decided as soon as we chose the song that we were going to include shots of clocks consistently. We manipulated the speed of the clock and included this shot as much as possible when 'time' was mentioned throughout the video. This shows a theme and link between song title and video.

We included shots of 'things' rather than people consistently in our first draft, some of these became more obscure throughout the filming process due to us wanting so much stuff. It was commented on some of this lacked any relevance what so ever and just distracted the attention from the content. This shot however worked well, the rose we used was originally in it's full form and we went on to pick the petals and film the whole process this created a montage showing the transformation of a beautiful flower into a mess, representing the narrative of the video. To put these shots together we simply slowed the footage down by right click > properties > rate and changed this to 0.5 and split the footage up amongst other shots. 

We used time lapse to film the clouds moving in the sky and edited this footage together speeding it up, similar to the previous slowing down process making it 3, to show how quickly things move and change which is the message of our narrative. These shots worked well as a lot of our video is very natural and this was consistent with this and is very aesthetically pleasing, it was commented on that this was a brilliant shot by our peers. 

We used cross fade in a lot of shots to show the links between artist and props or artist and actor. The use of cross fade made basic shots more 'pretty' and made the video more interesting to the audience hopefully keeping them more engaged as they try to understand why these shots are together and their relevance. 

There is varying pace in the song we chose, there are two parts at which the music goes from slow to fast, we wanted to exaggerate these parts and so added a montage of a crossfaded sped up shot of the couple over a very natural shot linking the artist with the location, which we exaggerated. This meant the piece of footage was very fast pace and set the tempo for the rest of the section. 

We included a lot of natural shots of the couple acting very relaxed and not staged. They embraced the location and used it well in how they acted for example walking down steps, looking at the view from the bench and playing on the top of the hill. The relaxed atmosphere makes the narrative more believable and takes the typical cheesy and cringey romantic video to make it more realistic. 

We added shots of ballerina shoes moving to exaggerate the gentle and vulnerable nature of the girl. Some of these shots don't work and we are going to have to re shoot to substitute some of these simply because the movement doesn't fit with the song/there is too much of it. We sped up this footage as specified before to ensure the footage fit with the fast pace and cutting speed. 

We used reverse with shots like this to exaggerate what was happening in the shot. I think this shot is very pleasing on the eye as our actress is very photogenic and the natural environment combine to make a very nice looking shot. I wish we had shot more things like this.

We filmed walking down a corridor and then sped it up and cut it down into parts. It looked like the person was moving very quickly down the corridor this is a technique we had seen and really liked in an Ellie Goulding video. This shot is quite edgy and fits in with the raw and random shots we used. 

Here is an example of a random shot with a link, the nettles are natural but they will sting so its like bittersweet this is the overall message of our video. I particularly liked shots like this as we had a natural theme throughout our video and there is an obvious link between this shot and the narrative.