Music Video: The Process

I decided that I wanted to not have the actual artist in the video, but someone else. Although many people asked me why I wanted to do this, I had a simple answer. Artist's such as Elton John and Sia have both used this technique - and because Sia is in this music genre I felt that it could work with my target audience.

This video features model Chantelle Winnie lip singing to the lyrics of Sia's sections of the song - and that is something that I wanted to incorporate into my own video. 

Elton John also did this with Robert Downey Jr. in his video 'I Want Love'. 

I used Adobe Premier Elements to edit my video together. This was really easy to use, and allowed me to use tools such as time mapping and reverse speed. These effects made the video more visually interesting, but I really enjoyed making the video and putting it together, I had no problems with the software and the end product was exactly what I wanted!

The blue sections show the visual clips of Tabby dancing, and the green is the audio of the song (Confess To Me - Disclosure ft. Jessie Ware). It was really easy to cut and edit clips to the length I needed them, a small sign such as this [ came up and you just cut it down to the points that you want, and that's it! 

To put some of the frames into reverse, I had to go onto the 'Tools' bar at the bottom, which then led me to this page. This page allows you to select which sections of the clip you would like you to slow down, speed up or put into reverse. Simply allocate the section you wish to change in yellow, and then that's where the effect will show. For most of my clips, I covered the whole frame in yellow and put an effect on it but for some I did only use a section, for example when the lyrics are "Don't get lost in" and she straightens her back, and I selected on the section where she comes back up to be quickened, and the effect is noticeable yet subtle. 

Another way that I put shots into reverse without going into the 'time mapping' tool (the section above) is to simply right click, then click 'Time Stretch' and a small box comes up into the middle of the screen, as shown below. 

Although you can also change the speed from this box as well, it isn't as easy to use and doesn't produce accurate results efficiently. 

To play a clip forward and then play it in reverse - looking like one fluid clip - was quite hard. I had to play the clip normally, and then crop it from the exact same moment it finished on another clip and then play it in reverse. This took me a while the three times that I did it, but the effort was worth it. 

The last effect that I used was the mirror effect, I only used it once but I think that it worked really well. I also sped up the clip too so her movements are more defined and 'jerky'.