Lighting And Colour Research

Lighting

The lighting for us is going to be an issue considering we are shooting in a forest so we will have natural light for all of our shots. This is something that we will find chaellenging when coming to shoot as keeping the same light and colour to make it flow and look like it was all shot on the same day at the same time. So we thought that if we shot early in the morning then we will get that first rising sun look on all our videos. Another thing that we have to worry about is the weather. This will effect us if its all cloudy because the lighting will be darker and as a whole effect will make our video seem very negative and bland. Although in our orginal ideas we wanted bright suns and bright lightings, we thought that knowing our luck we will be stuck with horrible weather and really dark lighting. We thought that this caught work in our favour because its almost like the rain is washing away all the bad stuff and almost purifying her. So either drastic rainy weather or bright sunny weather and we will be fine!

Another thing that we thought we could use if it gets too dark is to use the plug on light that was provided with the camera to use as an extra bit of lighting if we're filming under a tree and we need that extra little bit we can use it. It is also helpful that this light has filters nthat you can put over the light such as a pink; for a warm feel and yellow; for a bright sunny feel. I think that when coming to close-ups we will find it really useful to use thia extra light.

When sketching out our ideas, it was very clear that we wanted sun spots somewhere in our music video to create a natural, 'sun bursting through the trees, natural beauty' look. We thought this would help echo Amandas personality and also the personality of the song. Obvisoualy on the day if its bad weather we won't be able to get this effect, but hopefully if we leave early in the morning, we can catch that first sunrise effect.



Colour

For the colour which was already discused in the costume research, we were hoping for a pale palette for the costume to connotate purity and innocence and obviously at one with nature (as Amanda is a vegan).


For the colouring of the video we wanted bright colours because when Vicky and I did Syneasthsia to the song we drew with lots of bright colours and ovbviously because the song is quite pop and fast paced we saw lots of different colours so thats what we decided to do for the video and have a bright colour palette. This will also refelct on the mood that we have to our piece of music and the overall 'nature is the centre of everything' feel. We feel that by having this kind of colour in our music video that we can convey not just a music video, but a postive message out to people who watch it because that was the whole idea we wanted.