Here is our beginning to our music Video. Kayleigh has been working  at editing the film together and adding sound ect. We still need another minute or two but will be recording more next week to add in to our video. 

Editing

Today, we have started editing part of our video together. We have been learnin how to use new affects such as fade ins and fade outs. So far we have use 2 different programmes to edit, the first being imusic and the second being garage band. Both are very helpful and simple to use when it comes to putting our video together. We still have a long way to to but we are into the full swing of things now.

Video Narrative

Our music video tells a story, pretty similar to the actual version of Sam Smiths 'Latch'. The story is just based on love and two people acting out an every day life scene. The beginning of the video is going to be shot in a train station as this is an everyday life location. Rhyce whose our male actor will enter the train station with no music playing and take a seat on the bench. A few seconds after, we will hear the beginning of the song through a pair of headphones. Once the singing starts in the song, Rhyce will then put his headphones in and we will hear the song outloud. Our other actor, Lucy will then enter on the other side of the tracks. This is where rhyce falls in love with lucy. They will then make eye contact. A train will go past and do its normal routine. Rhyce will then look and see that she has got on that train. The next parts of the video will all be based on rhyce seeing Lucy in various places like the locations we have chose such as Birkenhead park and others. At the very end they will then meet back up at the train station without knowing one another will be there.

Timetable

Here i have put together a table of when me and my group are free so we can organise to do some more recording together.

I am now at a stage where I am beginning to edit parts of our music video using Imusic. We still need to film so much more so that I have scenes to put together. Imusic is a great way to produce your music video as it comes with many affects. I also dragged our song 'Latch by Sam smith' under the video which will play the whole way throughout. This week we plan to get a lot more filming done as a group and then continue to edit the parts together.

About my role and why we chose the song

This song is definitely a love song and is the one we have chosen to do for our brief. A song about someone really loving someone. Never wanting to let that person go. Knowing you have the ability to help that someone knock down their walls. knowing you have the ability to help them and make them happy if only they would let you. Knowing you could love them unconditionally if you could just "latch on to their love". 

My role within the group is to provide the actors with their costumes and props. In the first scene at the train station, I need to provide rhyce with the beats headphones. I then need to provide lucy with things such as her winter mits/gloves and her handbag. We are going to be recording in the park soon and depending on the weather, this is how the outfits will be planned because both times that we've recorded, the temperature has not be the hottest so our actors have had to wrap up warm. 

I am also going to help out with recording on the came. I have to look closely at some of the shots used in the video 'latch' its self. A lot of the angles and shots used were close up's from the waist upwards. There was also shots taken from far away so that i now know i need to mix up my camera angles and shots throughout our music video which will then be similar to the actual video. 

We took our main actor Rhyce down one of the alley ways which was a location we chose to shoot at for our draft video. We are following the theme of the sad love song and the actor should give an impression as to how he looks lonely walking by himself then he finally meets the girl of his dreams. A lonely dark atmosphere helps to get this impression across!