Mouthwash ALMOST Complete Music Video

There are a few lip syncs that need to be more precise, but almost there!

'Mouthwash' Behind The Scenes!

A very rough first edit

Final day of filming

On set!

DigiPak Update

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CD Back Cover

Album Magazine Advert





















We have completed 2/6 panels for our album digipak, we stuck to the conventions of our genre of Indie Pop/Rock by making our cover simplistic yet appealing to the eye. In the next four panels we are making we intend on including information about the album and the songs and photographs of the artist. For the magazine advert, we kept it as similar as we cold to the album cover to keep the clear link between the two.

Mouthwash Stop Motion: Take 1

From the image alone, it is clear that the first take of mouthwash stop motion was not successful, firstly, the stills were filmed in portrait (a rookie mistake), as well as this, the image is slightly tilted, as the photos were taken without a tripod. However these were good in helping us practice with editing together stills to create a fluid stop motion effect.
Better luck next time hopefully.

More stop motion!

A Very Rough Cut

In order to receive feedback from Terry Hall (previous post) we had to create an incredibly rough cut to give him a general idea of what kind of video we wanted to create; here's what we made:

Music Video Director Feedback

We recently showed rough cuts of our music video to director Terry Hall in hope of some constructive feedback on what we could do to improve our shots as well as inspire some new ideas. Today we skyped with Terry so that he could give us his feedback, and this is what he told us;

• We need to maintain the visual style and tone of the video, but maybe using a majority of still frames. 
• We need to ensure that we include a lot more lip syncing shots to ensure we create a relationship between the artist and the viewer. 
• In our stop motion shots of our actress on the steps outdoors, Terry suggested that we layer shots to create two or more of the actress in one shot. 
• To stick with the theme of stop motion, the director suggested that we should make our regular shots 'choppier', which will hopefully contribute to the quirky vibes of the video.

This White Stripes video uses a similar technique to our test with the girl on the steps. Interesting to see how the idea develops throughout. Has moving camera at the end:

http://youtu.be/K4dx42YzQCE
PES is one of the best stop frame directors:
https://www.youtube.com/user/PESfilm/videos

A few ideas and techniques on this that we could use:
https://vimeo.com/46287665

This Kate Nash video has a few elements of stop frame in it that is probably worth looking at for how to include them in our video:
https://vimeo.com/35289310

Stop Motion Shots

Stop Motion Filming

First day filming the stop motion aspects of our music video!

As I experimented with shots for the disassembling of a barbie doll, Shona experimented with the shots of tea cups being filled and emptied;

For the barbie doll shots, I created one which was of the barbies head doing a 360 degree turn on a rstraight body and another with a barbie dolls body parts movie away from her torso, which is what the image is of the process of.

I think that these shots should be redone without the blood as it does not match the style of the song. 

I think Shona's stop motion of the tea cups is exactly what we had imagined when we came up with the idea and will work perfectly with the genre of the song.