Lighting

Lighting is a very imporant aspect of a music video as different types of lighting connotate different meanings. Before filming my music video I had to seriously think about what kind of lighting I wanted to use that would best suite the ideology of my video and also the genre. I decided to use as much natural lighting as possible as my the genre of my artist's music (male acoustic) is very slow and calm paced and felt that this would best represent a peaceful setting. Using natural lighting will also fit best to my anchillary tasks as the photos for my album cover and magazine advert are taken in an open natural environment and to make all three of the products carry a brand identity I shall carry this theme on through my music video. Below are a few screen shots of different lighting situations that I used in my music video as it was not possible to use natural lighting all of the time so I have explained how I used other light sources to fit in with my genre.

The very first shot in my music video is meant to show my actor waking up, getting out of bed and then opening the curtains. I have put an effect on the opening scene to make it black and white until the curtains are open and then the footage goes back to normal colour. The lighting is quite dim until the actor opens the curtain and the bright day light shines through the window.



For the majority of my footage I have used natural lighting for the outdoor scenes as there was not much additional lighting that I would add to the day light and also felt that the natural light was enough as the weather was not too sunny so it set quite a sad mis-en-scene which matches the tone of the song.

In my night scenes where my actor is outside I have taken full advantage of car lights as I felt that these were visually exciting when the cars are moving and want to play about with speeding up and slowing down my footage of my actor watching cars drive past him.

After the time-lapse transition part that I have filmed of the sky turning from day to night I have kept the curtains open to show when it is day and when it is night to show continuation. The only other additional lighting that I have used in these scenes is a little lamp that you can see beside my actor which connotes being alone.