Unit 18 - Cinematography

Offline edit -  When creating the offline edit for our music video, we used Adobe Premiere Pro as this is a much easier software to use than After Effects to cut, paste and line up the footage to create a quick offline edit. When using Premiere, we used folders for the footage we gathered to make it easier to sort through, change or delete. This was a bonus to using Premiere Pro as if gave us helpful tools. Using Premiere pro, all we had to do was drag the video files (MP4) into the sequence and then cut the video clips to size. We would do this with each video clip until we have completed the offline edit. The video was in 1920x1080, which is industry standard for online videos such as YouTube and streaming platforms. This is Ultra Hight Definition video which means that quality would not be an issue when the video is rendered. The frame rate that we exported at was 25fps. This is also industry standard for the frame-rate of the video, as it provides a very smooth video without be...

When recording our footage, we manipulated and changed camera settings to create suitable footage to be used in our edit for the music video.  ISO and Aperture -  When we were on shoot days, we used the Canon R5 with a 55mm-105mm lens in manual mode to capture our footage. We adjusted aperture, ISO, focal length, zoom and shutter speed throughout the production to ensure that our footage reflected the ideal that we wanted to videos to look like. In some of our shots, we had to change the aperture or the ISO to level our brightness and make sure that any shots were not too bright or too dark.  Adjusting aperture was also important to establish a depth of field as many of our shots relied on having a portion, or full, character in frame with a blurred background in order to frame and isolate them in shot. This meant adjusting the aperture to a lower f. stop whilst decreasing ISO to limit how bright the frame gets. This is an example of how we used aperture to our advantage....

When recording our footage, we used different lighting techniques in order to achieve the feel and style of video that we wanted. These lighting styles consisted of, natural lighting, camera manipulation and using physical lighting sources such as fire. Natural Lighting -  For most of the shots in our film, we used natural lighting that occurred on the shoot day. This is because it made our logistics much easier, but mostly because it suited the style of the music video much better. This lighting style was created by a midday overcast sky which we used for some of our shots in the video too. The overcast sky provided the perfect lighting for the video, as it was neutral lighting, rather than sunlight which would not have fit the style of the video. The monotone colour produced by the sky created a dark, serious style of video which fit the genre of the video and the song perfectly. Fire/Creative Lighting -  For some of our shots, we used fire to fit in with the theme of the 'f...