Final Music Video

After a lot of editing, we have finally finished our music video! Here is the final music video for 'Static' by Dysphoria:

Final Stages of Editing

There are only a few days before our music video is due in, so we are using the last few moments we have to perfect the video and make sure it conforms to all the conventions of our genre. For example, we are ensuring that we have taken chief examiner Pete's advice from his talk at the BFI to 'cut and cut again', so that our video is fast paced to fit to the beat of the song. We are nearly finished and there are just a few more things we need to do!

Fish Eye Lens Shot

When filming the narrative to complete our music video, we decided to film the main protagonist from behind and from her point of view to gain a better sense of perspective of the story. This looked very effective and came in very handy, as the camera set up to film the scene from the front was out of focus, so we couldn't use the footage. We really like the sense of perspective this has added to our narrative.

Filming the Narrative

We came up with a shooting schedule in order to film our narrative scenes in our music video before we went out to film, so that we could manage our time efficiently whilst on location and to make sure we got all the shots we needed, as this was the last time we could film.

Tara, Stef and I managed to stick to our plan and get all of the shots we needed when on location, which made it easy to get straight back to school to upload our footage and begin editing again. We were amazed at how adding the narrative scenes into our music video enhanced it, and we are all a lot happier! Now we plan to spend all of our free time editing until the deadline... 

Filming Day 2

For our second session of filming we decided to go to Brick Lane to shoot some abstract shots of the scenery around the area and to film lip syncing in places we thought would fit well with the feel of our music video, our song and our genre.

The aim was to film as many artistic shots as possible in the time we had. However, as we found the perfect location to film in near Shoreditch, we realised that the plate that attaches our camera to the tripod was missing, and it was too windy to film as the camera wasn't steady enough. We tried to find a camera shop around the area that could sell us a plate for the camera so that we could be as productive as possible, but we had no luck.

Even though we did manage to film some of the shots we wanted, we didn't get as much footage as we needed and ended up in a coffee shop discussing aspects of our band brand whilst we were all together. Heres a vlog from our day:

Band Brand

We have decided on a few aspects of our band brand, such as the song name and the track list for our album. The songs original name is 'white noise', but due to the lyrics "static screams", we like the name Static for our song. As for our track-list, the song names we like as far are:

1. Indecisive 

2. The Chill 

3. Liverpool St. 

4. 1997

5. Broken Glass 

6. Stripped Down

7. Fiction 

8. Opium 

9. Mr. 

10. Bait

11. Euphoria 

12. Wanderlust

13. Salted Wounds

As for our band name, we though of some ideas like 'The Sound' or 'Sound', but we are still having debates about this. Here's a clip of us discussing ideas for our band brand whilst we were altogether filming in London:

Filming Day 1

During day 1 of filming we shot the lip syncing and performance scenes. We originally planned to have our performer singing into a microphone, which is typical of many performance based music videos, but when we arrived on location (the drama studio) we spontaneously started playing around with just lip syncing with different lighting on Stef (our performer's) face. We also played around with Stef lip syncing into her reflection in the mirror, which looked really effective when we uploaded it to iMovie to edit.

Filming (Day 1)

My group began filming while I was unwell, and they managed to film and edit the first line of our music video. They used stop animation for the iconography of the Rolling Stones t-shirt, for the lyrics "He's got a Rolling Stones tee, but he only knows one song".