Experimenting with sihouettes - Safwana and Yagmur

As we decided to add some performance in our video of the 'artist' lip syncing, after getting feedback from our class, we wanted to be more creative with it and make it more interesting. Indie rock/pop music videos tend to have artistic and creative elements to them so they're more unique and quirky.

We first decided and planned that we will take footage of our male model in a park and have him lip syncing and walking around at the same time. A lot of indie music videos tend to have the male artist doing this, but as mentioned before, we wanted it to be more creative and add something more visually exciting to look at. We were originally relying on shooting on a sunny day so we can get that shadow/silhouette look, but then we looked at a lot of videos on youtube and found that it was easier to create silhouettes indoors with high key lighting and a plain background. 

This is the opening credits of a TV show and we thought that the silhouettes of the heads with the images on them looked quite impressive and generally more interesting than looking at a black silhouette.

This video inspired us to add our initial idea of the silhouettes as well as playing around with editing techniques. In the example above we can see that they have used projectors to add an affect on the silhouettes and have moving images on the silhouette, with this we were thinking to have footage of the friend and the protagonist. However instead we decided to use the double exposure technique which gives the solid shape, which in this case is the shape of the artists face, some more depth. The internal solid shape has the footage, instead of it being black, and the external area is completely white.

These are some screenshots of how we used this video as an inspiration and in cooperated it to out own music video.

We used the drama studio to create the silhouettes. There was a white screen and I stood in front of it to cast a shadow which we then took a video of. We tried to see if it would be clear when lip syncing and it was because we put the music on top and it was clear - as if the artist was really singing. We also played around with the exposure/contract and we made the silhouette even darker.

We put two copies of the same video on top of each other and then another video such as the protagonist sitting down drawing. We found that this gave a really nice effect and we thought we could put all the videos together of the friend in black and white to make it even more nostalgic.