Tonight Promo!!

Website

http://www.wix.com/DelilahTonight/Coombe13D3

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The Ending!

We were having some debate about how to end the music video as the lyrics are quite strong and we wanted to do them justice. The last line of the song is 'You don't care if I love you'.
When we figured out that cross dissolves work nicely in our video, we thought that doing a few different scenes joint with cross dissolves would be very effective. W also wanted to end with the moon  as the song is called 'Tonight'. However when we showed the ending to our teacher, we had a discussion and as a group we decided that it would be even more effective if we saw the artist sing the last words to the camera.

Syncing

Once we had done practically all of the video, we watched it back and realized that at the beginning the syncing was not right- The song was being played just a few frames before the actress would mime. To fix this problem, we zoomed into all the clips and cut of all of the extra frames- we were worried that this would have an effect on the timing of everything else, however thankfully it did not.

Cross dissolve or wash in?

During our lesson today, we were experimented with using cross dissolves instead of a wash out followed by a wash in. The reason why we did this is because after consulting our teacher we figured out that perhaps in the few parts of the video where the screen goes completely white it may look strange. We thought that instead using washout's/in's we would use a cross dissolve so that there would always be an image on the screen. However after trying this, we all agreed that keeping the wash out's and was in's and having the screen go to white would create the sense that the main actress (Treeva) was thinking back to old memories. This would also keep the narrative strong as it would be more apparent to the audience that all of her memories of her and the main actor (Ivan) mean that they are no longer together.
In the end we stuck with wash in's and wash out's :)

Website

I am currently still working on finishing the website in my own time, it is nearly finished however, I did find a better host site than freewebs so I have started to make another one, just transferring the same information that the freewebs site also has on it. The only problem with the new host site is that it can be very slow which gets annoying and slows down the process of making the site. I wasn't happy with using freewebs because I didn't think it was very good as the websites didn't look as professional. The new site has allowed me to use effects, page transitions and animations too which make the website look more effective. When both sites are complete I will post them both on here.

Gemma