Editing Ideas

While mind mapping ideas for our music video, we came up with the idea to add illustrations onto the video using the 'Scribble Effect' on the software Adobe After Effects. This is because the narrative and accompanying lyrics to our music video are quite serious and cover a topical issue - bullying and self image - and the chorus' of our music video will feature numerous shots of people affected by this. However, these shots will be still shots with both the camera and characters positioned only in a single place with no movements. Therefore, by adding illustrations to these shots it makes the shots more striking and will act as the movement that the shots lack.

This effect is used in Justin Biebers 'What Do You Mean?' lyric video embedded below. It was used by director Laban in order to enhance the shots which otherwise have no narrative and are in black and white. However, unlike our video he uses the effect over moving images.




However, we have never used this effect before and only have limited experience using the software Adobe After Effect, therefore in order to see if the idea was feasible and to learn how it is executed before beginning the filming process, we have practised over the music video Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande. We left the first 10 seconds of the video without effects and then experimented with different shapes, brushes and colours in the following 10 seconds in order to compare. Our practise is embedded below.