During Production

We began production on our music video when we started filming landscape shots in Lady Dixon park. These shots became very effective using different filters and titles to establish the band and the beginning of the music video. These shots were very easily taken as the surroundings in the park were extremely beautiful and suits the mood of our song when the filters are added to the shots. We then filmed our narrative shots, this meant getting actors to portray the storyline of our video. Connor Carson and Bronagh Walsh two budding actors from Lisburn agreed to act in our piece, which added to the production of our video because they were so professional about the filming and took direction from myself very well, and did exactly what we asked. The lighting of our shots proved a slight problem as we wanted to shoot our narrative at night but there was a lot of lights around the area where we filmed so we didn't need to use our own lights or spots. We then filmed the band The Native for the live performance element of our video, we did this in the band's own studio, we had them perform the song Stupid Girl three times to ensure we got every shot we needed and we were able to get close ups of each band member. One problem, we had was that when they performed live the speed of the song varied at times, also they had vocal harmonies in their live performance that weren't included in the recorded version of the song. During editing we have tried out different effects to add to the video and one effect that has seemed extremely interesting and intriguing is using double exposure with the band's live performance with the landscape shots. We did this by changing to opacity of the live performance shots and added the landscape shot on top of this shot. This created a shot with two layers, which made an interesting effect, almost creating a sense of a two sided story.