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In this post, I will walk you through the editing process of the music video's final cut. First of all, I adjusted the colours a little; for most shots, I lifted the purple, to make it a little more vibrant. Then I experimented with some of Da Vinci Resolve's predefined transitions, but in the end I only used the Blur Dissolve for some of the cuts, and decided to create my own transitions for the others. I used no transitions in between certain shots, because I wanted the c

First and foremost, came the filming. The camera was a learning experience in and of itself, because for each shot, I had to be careful to get the focus and the ISO right, or else the take wouldn't turn out the way I wanted it to. I got a friend to model for me in the music video, and I filmed the entirety of the footage on a Canon 2000D camera. It took a few hours of filming, preparing the backgrounds, wrestling with the manual focus of the camera and trying to get every sho

Along with the vinyl cover, I will also be making a mini music video as part of my preliminary work, in order to prepare and experiment for the final music video task. I started by choosing a song, namely Ultraviolet by Spiritbox. Inspired by the album cover and song name, I decided I'd like to incorporate a lot of purple lighting in my 30 second music video, so I took a few concept photos using this lighting, which I shot on a Canon 2000D. These photos are entirely une

For my first preliminary task, I decided to try and create an album cover for the album Tsunami Sea by Spiritbox. They are a metalcore band from Canada, and their music is a surprising combination of heavy metal instrumental and hauntingly beautiful clean vocals, as well as classic metal vocals. To get a better understanding of Spiritbox's visual identity, I decided to look at a couple of their album covers, specifically two of my favourite ones. Eternal Blue - Spiritbox (

This post is just meant as some self reflection over the AS project and how it went, as well as my expectations for the A2 project, and the ideas I have for it so far. Firstly, I want to talk about what went well with my film opening: I'm really satisfied with how the editing turned out, as well as the filming itself; there are a bunch of cuts and camera movements I'm really proud of, and I really like the way I used the song and voice-over to further drive the emotional mes