Testing

Testing is a key stage when creating products. For my music video testing is crucial in order to know what will and what won't work. I first tested the projector idea. However this idea really didn't work so i knew straight away this idea was to be scrapped.

I also tested the idea of the lips and the lyrics coming up on the screen as well. I wanted to present the sharp change and test the music being linked with the visuals and lyrics on screen. I also wanted the view of how close to see the lips and whether I should get the face in the frame or not. I decided against the idea of have the models whole face in frame so went for the extreme close up of the lips. However when going to edit I realised the quality of the video isn't as sharp due to me zooming in on the editing. Therefore I know when it comes to shooting I will need to have the camera on the lip area rather then having the whole face and me zooming when it comes to editing it.
Testing the lips also made me realise that as I am so zoomed in on the lips, the model does move about when miming along to the music. Therefore in my future tests I will need to come up with a way to make sure the head of the model will stay still throughout the whole video.

My main part of editing was testing the speaker and putting things like paint and glitter in it to react to the bass of the song. I first tried paint as I saw examples of this online and saw that it reacted well. However this process was very messy as the pain was going everywhere, also I had to put cling film over the speaker so it would not be damaged, this therefore meant the affect of the music was not as good as the glitter as it was not in direct contact to the speaker. When testing the glitter, it reacted better than the paint and was a lot easier to control and handle, therefore I knew I was going to use the glitter.
Once i decided glitter was better than paint, I tested different shots to decide what angle would be best to use. I shot many different angles to get different perspectives and to see which view point had to better affect on how the glitter reacted and what would look best when shooting the real shot for my video. The angles where the camera is lower and sees the glitter jumping turned out to be the better ones. However, with audience feedback, the general theme people said was although the low angles were the better ones, i would need to get closer as that is how they are filmed in professional videos and that it would look best to use that type of angle.