I don’t have much to report but I do have some stills from the music video and maybe, like debt, they will inspire me to get some work done. I’ll show some stills that speak to me for some reason and try to get y’all interested in what I’m showing. Ok, let’s go.
Hear me out. I do like this frame but it works much better with motion and context and I can’t separate this frame from that context. The previous two shots are of her looking at her room for the last time and then her POV of the room. When we cut back we would expect to see her still looking, but she’s already gone. I always feel a little pull from her as if she’s running away from me personally and I’m stuck in the room.
My attachment to this still mainly has to do with it having once been a lackluster looking shot but color correction really boosted it for me. Looking at it now, we should have let the actress open the car door more so that there would have been more foreground in the shot. The tree to the right is the only thing adding depth to the shot. The trees and the hill in the background feel flat to me for some reason.
You may notice that the color has changed somewhat. The video has flashbacks which we needed to denote somehow. We boosted saturation along with some other things in order to make the difference more apparent and feedback was mostly positive on the coloring here. I really like this frame because it just feels so expressive to me in the context of the video. This scene has some jump cuts and our protagonist trips and then is picked up, but we then cut back to a close of her being picked up and she stumbles into the camera. It’s actually an elegant moment in an otherwise sloppy scene.
I think the eye is drawn to the protagonist here. The wall to the right is a little bright and I can feel my gaze drifting in that direction a little, but she captures my attention well and this shot is short. I think this shot shows some of the best acting in the video, but I guess you’d need more than a frame to judge that for yourself.
Finally, the two shots above are nice little motifs we have. You can definitely see the coloring we did because the second still is almost the same exact lighting. I like it nonetheless. Hopefully, I’ll get to share the full video soon.
See you around,
Austin
Listened to during writing : Fantasma by Cornelius
A Bigger Boat 