Evaluation

Filming

In one of the scene the artist himself raps to the camera an looks away and he is facing towards a visual of canary wharf which is a classy, rich place. The reason being is because that it shows the artist looking towards success and chasing his dreams.

Towards the end of the clip as the artists walk, there are lights on the trees and if you look carefully they look like angel wings which represent a spiritual message/meaning . It also symbioses life/death and straight after that is a time lapse of clouds moving and this represents how their journey continues.

The opening of the film has white/red particles. The colours itself represent good/bad. Also how danger can be avoided if you believe in yourself and walk away form them bad situations.

Child:

I decided to focus on one kid as having many as this creates a more emotional image to the audience.

Editing

The editing overall contained soft gentle dissolves as the lyrics of the song was not harsh or fast.

Time lapse

The time lapse used below was shot during summer by me as early preparation for the music video. The time lapse was significant to use in this video as it matches with the lyrics about moving on in life as there is a scene of the boats passing by.

Child Abuse/ Life

The meaning behind my track is related to child abuse and never to back down and fear anyone who stands in your way into accomplishing something. This world is very competitive and life is getting harder every second.
I did a lot of research into child abuse, read lots of articles which were published and had a dramatic/emotional effect on the audience. Below are some of the articles i looked at.

Cops: 'Woman Tries to Kill Children, Self to Avoid 'the Tribulation'

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-palmdale-woman-attempted-murder,0,3939586.story

'Longo strangled his wife and baby in a Newport hotel,

stuffed them into suitcases and sank them'

http://www.katu.com/news/local/118218959.html

Look at these headlines. Doesn't this affect you or at least make you think how horrible this world is actually is? People are mentally ill and sick minded of what they do to their own child, their own blood. Why????? :(

As I am a teenager, the typical stereotype would be violence, gangsters, troubles etc.. Mostly negative. However with me I am trying to show the positive side. There is nothing wrong to prove your side. So in conclusion I decided to preach out a valuable message so the audience can think twice and be aware of their actions before they hurt their child and that is 'Everybody's Child is Born With A Gift, Regardless how smart or dumb he is!!!
This is something which more and more artists are doing, relating the lyrics of their tracks to real life issues. Such as Eminem- Stan, Pink- Perfect picture, and Akon- Africa, all songs where the lyrics tackle serious real life issues. Also charity videos, big artists come together to make the world aware of seruous issues.

Finished Product

Unfortunately I was unable to post up my video due to high definition playback. However I tried converting the video and compressing it to a smaller size. Even though it did not upload because the clips were recorded using a HD camera and it will remain like that. However below I will print screen some shots, images of what I have done and improved of the final music video :D

Particle Effect:

This is a clip from the time lapse of cars passing by at night. To make it more effective I decided to create an effect where i learnt it from youtube. I took this clip and inserted it into Sony Vegas which I have at home. Sony Vegas is a powerful video editing software and I tend to use it more often that imovie. Any way next what I done was place and effect over the clip which was known as particles. What this does is obviously makes the image/clip look like flowing particles or still particles. I done this effect over the time lapse of cars and it looked very cool.

This clip below is the moon slowly moving. This was a very hard attempt to get. It was late night and we were very tired but however we were still motivated to get a shot of the moon as it looked beautiful. We recorded it for 2 hours moving from one spot to another. It was hard but worth the effort. Moon has light and bright light represents birth, life or a positive change and thats why I wanted to use it for the video.

Below is a picture of the city showing trains, air planes and building lights flashing. I could not upload the clip due to high resolution problems and it kept on failing during playback if posted on blog. Sorry! This clip in my opinion shows how life is moving fast. As it is a time lapse it shows how everything is moving really fast and life at the moment feels like that.

As one of the audience feedbacks were to have a variety and range of shots. So I took this into consideration and decided to do more creative shots. In addition i used the usual close up, medium and a high, low angle shot. All music videos have a variety of shots and the length of one shot is maximum 5 seconds. I did not want one shot to be 15 seconds as my roughtcut was. On the day of the recording we were playing about with the camera and finding out how to do better creative shots, There is a part where the camera is seat as a high angle shot and it follows the movement of the rapper. This was unique as it looked cool to do.

As you can see there a variety of shots know. Another feedback I got from the audience was to get shots of areas postcode. I did not agree to this idea as my music is not about crime or areas and violence between teenagers. Its more about child abuse and life with in children who get treated like that. Instead I got clips of Zac crying which is more effective and it will draw the audiences attention and make them think and that's what I want.

Storyboard

These are my storybaords to my music video. Heres the link to watch it with the track.

http://sp4rky987.blogspot.com/2010/12/storyboard.html