I had to change a few things from the original idea, such as instead of a doubleganger, the protagonist was supposed to have a disability that caused her to have a split personality, but because this is a family festival, I changed this because there will be children who will not be able to understand what is going on. Another example is that I had intended to kill off the protagonist in the original concept, but I decided against it because the story should be family friendly.
For this project, I wanted to include a scene in which the protagonist’s reflection performs different acts than the protagonist. I used Premier Pro to build my vision and masked the mirror. Another concept I had for this project was to incorporate animation into the film, but because I didn’t have many possibilities to do so, I just kept to adding black eyes to my wicked doubleganger character.
I have multiple drafts of me retaking the same scene of me going in and out of the bathroom, this is because the lighting would change throughout that scene which would mess up my masking, this is because it didn’t look like the mirror was blending in with the rest of the scene
My aims in this project was to combine film and animation together, however in this project the animation I used animation as effects. I also wanted to show off my story telling, this is because in this experimental music video there is no dialogue I wanted to make it super clear on what is going on just by using actions.
I do feel a bit upset about not able able to add more animation in this video even though I didn’t have as much opportunity to actually add as much animation as I wanted in this experimental music video but I do think it still worked out well. About my story telling in the video I feel like it was crystal clear about what’s happening which I’m glad it work out because I have about 3 different drafts and the other 2 I feel like it wasn’t as clear.
If I ever had the chance to recreate this project there are few things Id change for example if we weren’t so tight on time Id probably add more cast in the experimental music video this would give me the chance to add more animation. Another thing I would change about this experimental music video is that Id collaborate with someone and use their audio instead of using a cover. One other thing id add is more scenes of outside to show more of a cinematic scenes.
In conclusion I feel like I showeded different range of skills and applying them to my experimental music video, such as applying animation, different angle cameras different shots, symbolic coding and story telling.