Music Video

1. For our music video, Natalie and I wanted to mock "4-5 Seconds" by Rihanna. Not only did we want to copy a lot of the shots they did in the video, but we wanted to capture the overall look.
2. We changed our original idea last minute and decided to do 4-5 Seconds. We had a few problems at first, including getting our actors to show up to school and getting the perfect lighting to key out our shots, which we quickly found was harder than we thought. Once we got the lighting down, we filmed all of our shots and did the coloring digitally.
3. One important thing that we learned was that the lighting must be perfect in the green room in order for our video to key out properly. I also learned that you need to hire people that are completely committed to the video in order for your video to turn out well.
4. If I could change anything about this video, I would redo the silhouette shots in the green room rather than on the computer because they don't look the way i wanted them to.
5. In pre-production, we kind of (story boarded) on my phone by taking videos of the original music video on my phone, which really helped us get finished more efficiently.
6. In my next project I would do a short trial with keying out the lighting on the computer to make sure that the video looks just the way i want it.
7. At first, we got frustrated and almost didn't decide to do our video, but in the end I'm glad we did because it was a great experience and I honestly love our video, even though we had a few issues along the way.