90 Second Music Video
This is a music video for the song "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities. Overall, this was a fun project. We had a lot of freedom over what we were able to do in this music video. The task was to create a music video, maximum 90 seconds, that told a story through whats seen on the screen but also what the music said in the background. At the beginning of the project, my group had a hard time with coming up with a song for the video. We eventually chose this song because it was really up tempo and had a sad part in the middle which fit our story perfectly.
Process
After we chose our song, we made up a beat sheet for the video This "beat sheet" is a paper where all of the shots we want to get are matched up with a beat or lyrics of the song so the video flows smoother. Then my group made up a story board, which is more of a visual type of a beat sheet where one of us draws out all of the scenes and puts the lyrics underneath. After all of those were done, we refer to those as "preproduction tasks", my group and I grabbed a camera and began to film.
Filming in my opinion is the funnest part of the process. You get to go out and be creative with how you shoot the film, where the camera is placed, the different angles you can aim the camera to get different shots and there is just so much you can do to portray your story in a creative way. The filming process took about two weeks to finish.
When all of the filming was done, we moved on to the postproduction stage, more commonly referred to as editing. Each of our group members fired up Final Cut Pro and began the long process. Editing took about another week to get all of the shots lined up with the music and the correct transitions in as well as all of the credits.
