Extra Footage from Lip Syncing

The video below is our extra footage of when we filmed Michaela lip synching, we feel that creating a video to music has improved our editing skills as we have improved our timing on the beat and we have improved our variety of different shots.

I love the shot of the reverse editing when Emily took her jacket off and the girl running, as this shot suited the piece of music as it was an instrumental part of the song. I love the element of dancing in this video as I feel it will suit our genre, so I think we should consider applying music in our video.

Also, in this video we experimented with lighting such as the dark lighting in some of the dance sequences and the sunlight shining on to the camera, we considered having this lighting technique in our video before and after watching this we have decided we want to include. However, due to the weather we may have to use artificial light but it may not have the same affect.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Nine)

I think that we should include a silhouette shot which would be of Michaela (girl A) or Jessica (girl B) and the boy, so the audience assume that the boy is with Michaela (girl A) .
The still shot on the right is from 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens, this shot makes the audience immediately focused on the people as the subject contrasts the background.
The silhouette could be a close up shot of the side of Michaela's face when she has realised that she is not actually in a relationship with him which represents the 'dark' side of her love and the obsession. We could also have a mid shot or a close up shot of girl (B) and the boy during the video. However the audience will not know that it is girl (B) as the silhouette is blacked out, an example of a similar shot is shown in 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens shot on the left. Below is the video to 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens.

Many silhouettes are used in Labrinth- Let the Sunshine but the sequence of the silhouettes that I find the most interesting are at 1.08-1.24. The sequence is during a clapping part of the song which bulids up to the chorus. In our music video to Teenage Dream there are a lot of instrumental beats, so I feel that we could include a sequence similar to this in our music video.There are two different shots in one each second, one of the shots is a silhouette and the other one is usually a mid shot or a close up of the artist singing the song. The silhouette is at two different angles, in one shot Labrinth's face will be on the left and the next silhouette his face will be on the right. I have created a montage of the sequence showing each shot which is shown on the right. I would think we should create a sequence similiar to the video as I believe it will suit our narrative and we could include performance during the sequence. Below is the music video Labrinth- Let the Sunshine the sequence is at 1.08-1.24.


After researching on how to create a silouhette I have found out that we should have a lighting pointing towards the subject matter far away but in the shot the light is not shown and the camera should be focused on the face. When editing we can make to silouhette darker by increasing the contrast, we would have to use a non dark background and there should not be a lot of night in the room.

By including the silhouette in our video we would be increasing the amount of performance, and after watching previous A Level music videos many A grade video have majority performance.