Media Project Idea Change

Idea Change

Our original media project was to be a short film ranging in length from 4-6 minutes. We had planned  and had ideas for this to go ahead as planned. We had a storyboard and mood board already made. However we recently decided to change our project from a sort film to a music video. The reason behind this late change was essentially because we believed it would be easier to film and fit into out chosen genre. With our short film there were last minute problems such as actors not being available for filming or dropping out and the original location having to be changed due to access limitations. In the end all these problems led us to make the decision to change ideas.

Changing to a music video makes it much easier for to film because we only need two people for it to go ahead. Despite changing to a music video, we managed to keep our original genre of a stalking vibe. Our music video is based on the song "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots. The video depicts a person walking through a village by himself, with another person following them around, but in a creepy sense. The meaning behind the video was to give the feeling of loneliness to people who try and get to know people and try to make friends whilst simultaneously giving the feeling of loneliness for people who have no-one and don't have the opportunity to know people. 

Media Project Equipment

The camera that we chose to use to film our media project was the Sony HDR-CX240E Handy cam. We chose this camera because it produces a high quality, the cameras 2100k pixels will mean the film is of great quality. 

The camera also allows us to upload videos to a computer quickly and efficiently making editing much easier and quicker.

Our choice of camera tripod was the Velbon VTP-787 Compact Tripod. It isa compact 7-sectiojn tripod that folds up to 28cm but extends to 108cm, which allowed us to take it anywhere in a bag and extend it to provide stable and smooth filming.

The editing software that will be using is I-movie. Although this is not the default software that our computers have, we found I-movie to be a smoother and easy to use software for our editing. We also have a much more in depth experience with I-movie as we have both used it before so we felt it would be quicker to use something we had already used.