Final Video Project Submission4/28/2021 The changes I have made since my first revision are that I tweaked the film grain effect on the entire video and I added a vignette to give it a more old timey style. As well, I added a single title card with just my name as director into the video. I mainly did this just because I felt like it was the only place where a credit integrated well as it is a fast cutaway that attracts the audience's attention. And really, for any other credits it would be redundant to just put my name over and over again since I am the one who did everything. This was the same shot previously. This is the same shot now. I also did as I planned and added a title card as well as a few mysterious voice lines at the end to hint at the rest of the video continuing on. THE PROCESS The process behind the development of this video was that it had to invoke a feeling of mystery as well as danger like most good noir movies do. And so, I thought about it for a couple months and then just wrote down some interesting scenes that came to mind. Slowly but surely, I decided on which scenes to include, and which wouldn’t fit and so then I built my story off of that. The whole writing process never involved any mood boards or story boards as my vision really only had to be communicated to myself for the production of the video to go accordingly, so everything was just written down as text on my phone with very descriptive language to help me envision what I am trying to go for. Then when it came time for filming, I mainly stuck to the outline I had of the main character waking up on a bench and then running home while being chased with something important in hand to only end up getting caught in the end. Through this most of the other filler shots were spur of the moment and improvised as once I was actually on location, I started to be able to picture and better see which shots would work or fit in or would just look nice; I just let my creativity flow. After filming wrapped, I edited the video together in Adobe Premiere Pro and really since I already had an outline of the entire story, the editing process went quite smoothly as I just combed through the footage and looked at what worked or what didn't, and intuitively I decided on shot length for each clip. Finally, any last minute adjustments I needed to make to really nail the aesthetic of noir that I was going for were made and so then the video opening was done.
Also, as for the unique music choice for the whole video, it mainly came about as once I heard the song, I felt a rush of inspiration and I could almost envision shots of me running so it's really what sparked the whole of the video mainly being a chase scene. And I am aware it is not very genre appropriate or expected but it is what I felt fit the scene better as more of a new and fresh take on noir, which is a genre that can be kind of boring and predictable sometimes when filmmakers stick to conventions too much.
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