Finished Film

Here is our final film!

MTV label

To make our video look more realistic we decided add an MTV brand logo that would appear if the video was to be played on MTV.

We simply made this on word by print screening the logo firstly

Then add on to a black background

And this is the final result after adding our name and title

Colour washes

This video is by kanye West and one technique it uses is the flash of colour washes over footage.

These are print screens from the video where the colour flashes appear on one continuous piece of footage.

We decided to use this effect over some of the footage in our video to add pace and colour. Above is an example of somewhere we used this in our video.


We did this by changing the levels on the clips in imovie.




This is a print screen of how we did it. 

Colour grading

While researching different music videos we found one aspect in particular effective in creating a professional and visual pleasing finish. This is the focus on COLOUR GRADING. 

This is a screen shot from the video 'Black and Yellow' by Wiz khalifa. Throughout his video the colour levels seem to have a green/yellow grading over them to create a kind of warm aged look. The style of this grading suits the setting of a hot city environment which is what the video tries to portray. 

These are screen shots taken from another music video which is actually in our genre. Again the similar theme of city and warmth is applied however there are more tones of blue/green. This effect is called 'bottlewash' in many level editing programmes. 

In our video we want to have this kind of effect over some of our footage and so we created a small montage of flips to try this out. We did this by changing the colour levels on imovie shown in the print screen below. 

By using this tool of changing levels we created the colour grading/ aged effect on these pieces of footage. 

Spinning shot

Whilst doing our research we found this video by Digitalism.


This video is made up of one continuous spinning shot around different objects, movements and ideas. Although it may sound boring it is really interesting the way in which the sequences change with a kind of stop animation feel. Having really liked this we created a similar idea for the end of our video.

We realised at the end of our video our main character is meant to feel confused and a good way to create this dizziness and illusion is to make the shot revolve around her to create the idea of her head spinning and it puts the audience inside her thoughts.


How we did it.

We struggled at first to think of a way that we could move around an object quick enough and then we realised we could use a car. Having our ending on top of a car park was the perfect place.


So we drove around Yasmin and filmed then when we put it in to imovie we sped the clip up.

Editing open thing final cut

One idea we had from this video by Metronomy is the opening and the way a moving image appears from the black screen at the very begining.
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After much confusion we found a way we could do this on Final Cut Express.
This is a video of us explaining how it is done.

Opening so far

We have finished our opening Montage! This is the part of our video that will go before the music starts to add to the narrative.