Areoplanes / Bedroom Stop Motions

After receiving my last lot of feedback, noting that my video was quite repetitive and didn't have that much of an arty feel, I brainstormed how I would try and make the video less repetitive and have more of a niche feel.

 

Therefore, I thought that adding some new scenes/locations in my video would make it far more successful as it would help break up each scene and replace any footage that is repeated.

 

My first idea was a scene in which Ruby Collins would be in a room, there would be some aeroplanes around her as that way it would feel quite cute; which ties in with the overall feel of the song. It also has quite an arty element involved as the whole setting would be made by me using materials sourced by me and making aeroplanes myself.

 

When actually filming this footage it was quite fun, though I do have to say that actually making the aeroplanes properly and out of paper and then, tying the string to the aeroplane. And then masking taping it to the ceiling was a very long process and took me quite a while to do single handled. Though the end result and the images that came out really worked well.

I think that when putting this footage into the video, I think that the footage of Ruby Collins singing could be broken up by images of her as that way it wont be as boring and will feel quite cutesy with the poses. I think it will also help cut in the lip syncing so that the chorus hits on point.

Bedroom-

The other location that I filmed was actually a re-shoot which was of the bedroom singing, this was to try and make the footage more successful by making sure that the lighting was less gloomy, the actual character had a more emotive reaction to the lyrics and to put more props in the background. To ensure that this was completed to a perfect standard I put more posters on the wall, got lamps in the room and informed the character that she needed to more emotive. I also filmed in the day time to ensure the lighting was perfect.

Whilst doing this footage, I also thought because everything went well I could even potentially try and make some more footage.

In this case it was making a stop motion of random activities of Ruby Collins which happened to be her such as reading a book and her pulling her hair down. Which I think worked well with the lighting and the clean cut images on the DSLR.

In the future, I hope to try and keep updating the new and improved footage, I will also try and put the new and improved footage on YouTube and post this on my blog as soon as possible so that you can see the new changes.