Developments and Ideas

Shots

So far, my edits have proven to be quite long for the song's time and the footage I intend to include, the bike scenes taking far too long, the general movement of the protagonist being quite slow and inclusive of hands and legs, as well as lighting sometimes being bad. I will try to move more swiftly and realistically, not trying excessively hard to include movements, objects of interest and my limbs, as well as trying to get the majority of daytime filming completed around about the same time each day, roughly between 9am and 3pm for the HD colour clarity I need. The shots will also be shortened more frequently in short succession, as with my second edit I found that it is easy to accidentally film too much and need to shorten it, so by moving quickly as well as cutting out static sections of footage with short jump cuts I can speed the clips along and convey that section of the story as swiftly as possible so that there is room for the other, more important scenes.

Lighting

As mentioned above, lighting has proven to be a major concern. Not only with the lighting mentioned, but with the darker scenes such as in the most recent edit with the night time shots and transition. The torch I had was too focused on one point, and so proved to be quite awkward at establishing the scene, as well as highlighting large spaces. It is also impractical at actually helping navigate due to the short radius of it's beam, and so I will need to think about investing in a larger covering torch, though it did reach the other end of the woods with ease.