Since I have changed my idea I have also decided I am going to go about filming in a different way as well. Instead of doing entire shoot after entire shoot, I decided it would be a better idea to film one clip at a time until I was happy with it and only then move on to the next one. I chose to do the shoot in the afternoon when I knew the lighting in my house would be as best as possible without needing to use artificial lighting.
I feel the shoot went much better than the previous ones. I had the control to make everything the way I have visualised it in my head. My model was very well behaved and very cooperative which was a great help. I did half of the shooting on one day then the next day I revised it and called in the help of a friend for advice. I asked what she thought of each scene and if she could see any which didn't work. There were two scenes that needed retaking and one more adding. I added the shot of the light turning for effect and had to retake the shot of the piano and the "home is where the heart is" sign. Once we had sat and looked through all of the I narrowed it down to 38 clips to edit and put together. A lot of them needed a second or two taking off either end of the clip as added extra time filming to make sure it didn't get cut off or anything.
Yesterday and today I have been editing the clips and putting them together one by one in Premiere. I have actually rather enjoyed it. I filmed all of the clips knowing where they would go and how they would fit together to compensate each other and the film run smoothly. I think the most difficult bit to put together was the end of it. There were two which I knew should fit together but needed a slight gap in between. I tried a space but it was too harsh so I asked my tutor for some help with how to fade out from one and fade into the next. She showed me where it was in the effects side of the program and we were able to add it.
Once I was happy with my video I added an adjustment bar to make it black and white then had to check to make sure the clips where the right light and contrast. There were a few that needed to be brightened using levels so I sorted that out.
Next was the music side of things. I had sat the night before listening to music on a free music website. I found several different pieces of music which were similar but also very different. I had these ready to try once the video had been put together. I started with the one I thought could work but might not because it could be too much. I was pleasantly surprised with this one. It was a track called Paranoia by Kai Engel. There were two more tracks by this man that I tried but they didn't seem to fit the mood of the video like this one did. I then also tried a couple of pieces by Ludovico Einaudi, one seemed to fit but not as well as the first piece. As I watched the video repeatedly with the music and to check for faults I really started to connect with the video and music more so than I have done so far.
I decided to render and export the video so I could watch it properly on a full sized screen. It took about 14 minutes to do a 5min 30sec video which I was pleased about as when I made the stop motion it would take 30-60mins. I sat and watched it and realised there was a gap that shouldn't have been there so I reopened the video and corrected it. I rendered it again but then noticed the special fade out and in effect had disappeared from me moving the clips again so it was straight back into the editing program to correct that as well. Another 14 mins later I could finally watch it again and again to see if I was happy or not. I have since noticed a slight glitch where I think my model nudged the tripod slightly so tomorrows job will be to get rid of that.
I asked my tutor to have a look at the video to see if she could see anything major that I might have missed. She only came back with one slight error and a suggestion. The error was that one of the clips was ever so slightly out of focus but not enough to warrant reshooting that scene. The suggestion was about the sound/music. She suggested leaving the first half of the video silent bar putting a tick in for the clock and a drip for the water clip. Then introduce the music midway. I am going to try this as it is experiencing and maybe developing but I'm not too sure as I filmed the entire film without sound as I had no intention of having any and also it would have made things a lot harder when shooting as I wouldn't have been able to guide my model through each little bit at a time. I think the film without music will be too quiet however I will give it ago.
I had thought about adding those effects in as well as the music though and maybe having the music quieter so the sound effects stand out more when its those scenes.
I have had my heart on music being all the way through since I first decided I wanted to do a video. Music is as much my passion and soul as photography is so to me it would be wrong not to include it all of the way through but it is one of those wait and see situations. You might be wrong...
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