I have made considerable progress with the editing of the music video, my main method being to add clips to the timeline that create juxtaposition, for example editing a clip of the two children playing hide and seek behind a tree next to a clip of George (one of the brothers in the present) walking past the tree looking upset because his brother is gone. This is effective as it constructs the representation that the younger brother is gone and represents the effect it has had on his brother very effectively as well as being a fairly simple and understandable concept.
To represent this more obviously, the use of fading out of the lost brother is used frequently in our video, the screenshot below shows one of the clips I have done this to, matching the two clips together- one without the brother and one with the brother, with the camera positioned in exactly the same place.
To the right the red horizontal line shows where I have added key frames in order to change both the opacity and the colouring of this shot. Changing the opacity gives this 'fading' effect whilst adding a colour pass and altering its presence in the shots dulls the colour as the clip goes on. This constructs the clip to look like as the brother fades away, so does the colour, becoming black and white.
I did this to construct the representation that in the older brothers eyes, a world without his brother is a world without enjoyment and happiness, really emphasizing the pain that his younger brother dying has caused. In the image you can also see the central box is rendering the clips, I do this after adding effects to clips and overlapping certain shots which makes the video look of much higher quality as each clip flows smoothly and the change of clips is not jumpy or unfocused.
In this image to the left you can see a large selection of clips of the two brothers when young, I have been constantly reviewing all these clips to make sure I use the most effective and meaningful, then making sure to position these clips next to others to flow smoothly to make the camera movements similar, for example if in one clip the camera is moving to the right at a certain pace, I will try to make the next clip also have the same movements to the right, if it does not quite flow I can make adjustments to the timings of the clip. For example I often use the TimeStretch tool to slow down, fasten or often reverse certain clips so that the same movement continues.
Most recently, in order to finish the video I have been adding clips of the older brother visiting his brothers grave at the end of the video. We added these scenes as it enforces the meaning of the video in case the audience did not understand that the younger brother had passed away.
After the clips were ordered correctly in the timeline and the group was happy with them, we added a vignette effect to the clips of the brothers together in colour. We believed this gave these clips a more 'dreamy' effect as if they are constantly replaying in the older brothers mind, a representation we had hoped to achieve in the video.
To represent this more obviously, the use of fading out of the lost brother is used frequently in our video, the screenshot below shows one of the clips I have done this to, matching the two clips together- one without the brother and one with the brother, with the camera positioned in exactly the same place.
To the right the red horizontal line shows where I have added key frames in order to change both the opacity and the colouring of this shot. Changing the opacity gives this 'fading' effect whilst adding a colour pass and altering its presence in the shots dulls the colour as the clip goes on. This constructs the clip to look like as the brother fades away, so does the colour, becoming black and white.
I did this to construct the representation that in the older brothers eyes, a world without his brother is a world without enjoyment and happiness, really emphasizing the pain that his younger brother dying has caused. In the image you can also see the central box is rendering the clips, I do this after adding effects to clips and overlapping certain shots which makes the video look of much higher quality as each clip flows smoothly and the change of clips is not jumpy or unfocused.
In this image to the left you can see a large selection of clips of the two brothers when young, I have been constantly reviewing all these clips to make sure I use the most effective and meaningful, then making sure to position these clips next to others to flow smoothly to make the camera movements similar, for example if in one clip the camera is moving to the right at a certain pace, I will try to make the next clip also have the same movements to the right, if it does not quite flow I can make adjustments to the timings of the clip. For example I often use the TimeStretch tool to slow down, fasten or often reverse certain clips so that the same movement continues.Most recently, in order to finish the video I have been adding clips of the older brother visiting his brothers grave at the end of the video. We added these scenes as it enforces the meaning of the video in case the audience did not understand that the younger brother had passed away.
After the clips were ordered correctly in the timeline and the group was happy with them, we added a vignette effect to the clips of the brothers together in colour. We believed this gave these clips a more 'dreamy' effect as if they are constantly replaying in the older brothers mind, a representation we had hoped to achieve in the video.
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