Hand drawing effect- The making

So today, we did it! It took an hour to do two clips,  which I don't thinks too bad considering we're beginners. Thought I'd share with you the two clips we did...






This is our practice piece number one. We simply used the white paint tool to create this. From the research process I found that a lot of videos highlight feature of the mis-en-scene which I think would be effectice when using the hand drawing effect. This skill is simple but effect, it can make a plain video come to life with something so simple.






The second example is my personal favourite. I started to use the white brush tool effect, Connor suggested to use different colours to make it seem more fun... straight away, from the use of a simple coloured brush stroke, added life to the clip. We will defiantly use this skill when producing our final music video, it a simple trick that adds character to the clip.

Hand drawing effect- Step by Step

Hey guys, so Me and Connor are going to give the hand drawing effect a little go, but first I wrote up the tutorial I watched in a step by step way so we can quickly refer to it whilst practicing... I also added a few After Effects keyboard shortcuts, as it'd get us used to working quickly as we have to work to a deadline for our final music video... Hope our practice piece turns out well, I'll keep you updated, but, for now, I'll just upload my step by step notes...

Hand drawing effect- The research

Hey guys, so recently I've really been interested in the 'Hand drawing' effect that a few music videos have included lately. For example, disclosures front covers include this;

 

and Justin Bieber's 'what do you mean' video also includes this effect. Me and Connor really want to create this in our final video so I did a little bit of research and watched multiple YouTube videos on how to create this within after-effects, thought I'd link below my favourite tutorial I found and the most helpful video...

Copyright email to Glassnote records

Me and Connor have emailed the record company in order to receive permission to use the song 'Undercover Martyn' to use for our final music video. Here is the email we sent,


I am writing to you to request permission to film a music video version of your song Undercover Martyn. This forms part of my OCR A-level Media Studies course where my task is to record a music video to a song of my choice. It is only for assessment purposes and will not be used for any commercial or profit seeking purposes. I acknowledge your copyright of the material and will not use it for any other purpose than that stated above.

If you require any further information or clarification regarding the use of this material for educational purposes please contact my teacher Mr Welch (welchch@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk)

Here is the screen-grab;

Feedback from preliminary task

Hey guys, so we recently received some feedback on our preliminary task- don't worry it was all positive- however, I'd just like to discuss a few points I feel were Mine and Connors strengths and weakness'. I feel that Me and Connor came up with rather inventive idea's for our preliminary task, the use of a silhouette shot and also the reverse of a clip at the start of the video, was really effective for the audience. I noticed when others watched it, they couldn't stop watching, which is generally what you aim for when making a music video. Sir stated in the feedback sheet that the use of these skills have a good sense of aesthetic and recommended to use these in our final music video if relevant. Although the song we've chosen to do our final music video doesn't really fit this theme, I think it'd be effective if we used a 'silhouette in the sun' shot, maybe walking through a field, creating a silhouette image at dusk with the sun in the background, this would fit our theme a lot more as we want to make the video more fun and playful. Sir also stated that we used filters to keep a consistent sense of genre and appropriate look. I do find this useful as Me and Connor could add a vibrant filter overlaying our clips in order to give a happy and joyful feel to the video.

Although I do feel that our preliminary was successful I feel there is room for improvement and ways we can learn from this task. I do feel the filter was rather heavy and at times, when there was a close up shot, the audience struggled to see, this is not what we aimed for, as the clip was in reverse so we wanted everyone to be able to see it. In the future if we were to use this reverse technique again, we would make sure that the lighting is bright or use a more vibrant filter in order to enhance the feature's of our faces, bodies or even objects and make clear to the audience that the clip is being reversed. From the feedback we received, Sir suggested that if we do go for a similar aesthetic again, try aim to explore illustrator where we can write and draw over the video. I feel that this technique would work rather well, as we can use this in order to make the video more playful and enjoyable, especially as the less exciting parts, this may make the video more interactive and interesting and allow the audience to 'step into our shoes' rather than just simply watch a music video.

Below is the feedback sheet we received....

'Keep your head up'

So, in mine and Connors pitch we mentioned that we wanted to make our video with the similar initial idea's as Ben Howards 'keep your head up'.  The video consists of a few people having fun but in the beat of the song which is similar to what we want to do. I guess a few of you haven't seen this music video so I linked this down below so you have a feel of what we're talking about...

One page pitch

Here is mine and Connors one page pitch for our music video. This states our initial ideas and what we will base our music video on.