np_final2

This project was very open and daunting at first. The struggle to find the "perfect" song to fit my video for project one became inspiration for what I would do for project 2. After project one, I realized that the music should not have been an after thought for the project, but rather more of a basis for the video because it creates a sense of pace and timing for the video rather then pulling those elements out of thin air and then finding music that fit it.
 * BRAINSTORMING**

Another struggle I had with project one was creating the actual footage. I realized that I was certainly no videographer, but after watching some of the example music videos in class I figured with the right concept and LOTS (and LOTS) of editing I could create a decent video. I Recently discovering //Dead Man's Bones// "Paper Ships," and instantly thought that I could make a fun video for this song. After reading the history of the band, and how they formed I was inspired to create a video that incorporated these elements. The childrens choir in the background was the reasoning I tried to keep it child-like with the Halloween costumes and the characters actions. At first I had the idea to make a story out of the song, but after the first few shots, I liked the randomness of the characters actions and thought a story would be too structured for the looseness of the characters.

Just a video I found that had the song I was using,
 * SONG SAMPLE**
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LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHS **

As for the style of the video, it was something I played around with quite a bit. I did have a first idea of the kinds of colours I wanted but I tried a lot of different things. In the final one I ended up with the similar sort of style I was going for the in the first place.
 * SAMPLE STYLES**

I had A LOT of footage, and figured it would be better to have more rather than less. I probably only used less than a third of the footage. Here are a few examples of unused footage media type="youtube" key="KMAFY3qQS8k" height="343" width="426" media type="youtube" key="oiiNVTVqpDc" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="an-OqV3vtps" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="AWbO5JwGcqQ" height="344" width="425"
 * SAMPLE FOOTAGE**

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 * FINAL