Friday, 23 January 2009

Storyboard (Rough)

Storyboard 1


Storyboard 2


Storyboard 3

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Intro for Turning Back

Here i decided that the begging of the video needed something unsual and create an impact to catch the audiences eyes. So i've created this video, which is still under prodution, but hopefully finish soon.



Intro to Turning Back from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

Ok so the prosses in creating the music symbols was a bit of pain. As i had to listen to the song stop it and create a note to where i thought the beat of the song had struck. So basically it was a trail and error process as After Effects is not that usful with music.

Friday, 9 January 2009

Rough video

Ok, so I have been away developing a rough blocked out video for the song 'Turning back'. I have purposely tried to use only the footage that C.R.I.$.I.$ had given me to see how much more I would need to finish the video. Also when editing the video I had some ideas of what visual effects I could create to make the scenes more dramatic. When you will see 'work in progress' that will be the position where the visual effects will commence.

Turning back 'Rough Vs':


Turning back 'Rough Vs' from Daniel Chirwa on Vimeo.

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

De-interlacing

After looking at the raw footage that crisis had passed on to me. I realised that the whole of scenes were in fact filmed at '' DV PAL (720 x 576)'' format which mean it is interlaced. This unfortunate means that it will be difficult to add any sort of visual effect on top of the footage. I have however researched into De-interlacing filmed footages. On this website, it explains what interlacing is and how to get rid of it:

http://www.hqv.com/technology/index1/deinterlacing.cfm?CFID=18356125&CFTOKEN=88790154

Here are some pictures comparing interlaced and De-interlaced footage using a different program called Denoiser.

Interlaced shot:



De-interlaced shot:




Unfortunately this program is too expensive for this project and have reverted to using After Effects, to De-interlace all the footage. With using this program the process will be in fact different, but should give me the same results. Will post some images soon of my de-interlacing footage and I hope everything will go well :)

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Lyrics - Turning Back

CHORUS 2 X

Walking a road that’s lonely, walking a road that’s lonely, now I think I’m turning back.... (Chorus)

Yo, Listen...
I’m sitting home alone and I’m watching the clock go,
Seconds turning to minutes and minutes turning to hours and hours turning to days and days turning to months and its now been a year been long since you been gone.
I used to act like I really didn’t need you, pride got the best of me, I never let you see the truth,
I’m thinking back how we use to just chill, any problems with the law, you’ll never let the beans spill.
Always on my side like the shoulders to the neck , even when I treated you bad with total disrespect, now I’m all alone memories of my dome ever since you left the house has never been a home, listen...

CHORUS X 2

Yo, we started off like perfect couple and Nostradamus wouldn’t know what lay ahead was trouble. Fly chick with the perfect guy you and I was like Dodi-el-Fayed and Princess Di.
Paparazzi used to follow us they wrote about us like a soap opera, so every week they had a story to tell, well all I wanted was a good life, looked you in your eye and I knew you make a good wife.
I started thinking marriage, baby carriage, you and I on a honey moon off to Paris, a perfect life that never really happened, with jealousy around us some people started yapping like,
He’ll never treat you right, he’s a celebrity, always in the bright lights always living fast life, and then you thought about it once or more and that’s the time that I saw our relationship fall and now...

CHORUS X 2

C.R.I.$.I.$ - My road is lonely. Repeat (Background)
Singer X 2 – I can’t live without you. Can’t live without you.
When I listen to the radio now, it’s like every song played just seems to talk about our situation, the pain gets deeper, memories are still here,
I can’t sleep at night, so sick of love songs, whatever happened to my girl who told me she would give me the world, baby boy and a girl, now sitting in this empty house and my world feel lonely I’m hoping you can let me out.
And I don’t want be alone, I staring at the phone, when it rings, I’m hoping its but it’s my land lady....DAM..I think I’m losing my mind now, I feel like pulling plug out and turning the lights out kkk baahhh (blackout)

2 X
I think I’m dying to see you but instead I choose life so I live to see you.

CHORUS X 2

END

Intro

The Brief

This projects that I will be attempting to create a music video that will help me to understand and develop skills that will be useful within the industry today. In developing this video I will be using unique and original ideas that will help the music video to stand out within the industry. This project is classed as a ‘live project’ for a real artist (C.R.I.$.I.$) who intends to promote his album.

Most of the video has already been filmed, but not edited together. This video cannot be re-filmed as C.R.I.$.I.$ has gone back home and will not be returning till summer. Instead he wants the scenes that have been filmed to be included in the video. He also asked if it is possible to make the scenes more dramatic and not relate to other hip hop videos e.g. the bling, the cars ect.

Using the time of the song, which is near to the 5 minutes, this will be approximately the length of the video that will be produced. To create a dramatic scene at least 1-2 effect shot will be implemented within the footage that has been taken. And not forgetting to include a numerous amount of motion graphics, which will be used again with the footage for the uniqueness. The video will be edited and some extra footage if needed will be shot to help the video come together.


This is the artist below that i will be creating a music video for:-



This album is to be shortly released in Africa-Zambia and the UK. He insisted of making a music video to promote his album, which will include some visual effects to enhance the overall look of the end product. Luckily Crisis has had a team together to film most of the music video footage which will be editing in the end by myself. One major problem is that crisis did not have a storyboard or some sort of action sheet when filming, which would of helped with the visual effects and the editing. In this circumstance i will have to edit a rough version using the footage that has been given to me. Firstly to understand the timing of each sequence and also if the footage works well with the lyrics.