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"Day Off" D-Rey Completed Music Video

"Day Off" D-Rey Completed CD Digipack

"Day Off" D-Rey Completed Music Magazine Advertisement

Construction: Music Video - 'Day Off' by D-Rey

When I opened up Premiere Pro the first thing I did was import all of my raw footage. An example of the raw footage is below.

 





Here is a selection of raw footage to the right. To get the music video to how I want I will cut parts from the larger clips and put them together in a way that will pleasing to the viewers eyes. For example I will use a number of editing techniques such as cutting to the beat, black and white, colour changes etc. I will be taking screenshots along the way as evidence.











One of the first things I did was right click on the very start of my project after I put the first clip in, and clicked 'apply default transitions'. This provided a fade from black to make the start of the music video look less harsh.




After a while of cutting clips, lining them up with the track and putting them together, my timeline looked like this:

When I was faced with a long clip that may become boring to the viewer, I edited the clip to change to different colours at the beat.



To do this I opened up the 'colour effects' at the bottom left of the screen, opened up the 'colour correction' menu then click and dragged 'RGB colour corrector' to clip I wanted to change the colour of.




After clicking on 'effect controls' I chose the colour that I wanted and repeated for the rest of the clip.

The finished clip with those effects are below.




Towards the end of the video where there are no words I decided to use some quick cuts to match the beat. I lined up three different clips that I wanted to use and used the razor tool to cut the bits that I didn't want. I used the audio timeline at the bottom to make sure I was accurate when cutting to the beat. At the end the timeline looked like the picture below.

Planning: Costume

A common convention in rap videos is the artist wearing a shirt with the name of the town/city they grew up in or live in. I will try my best to match this convention by getting my actor to wear a t-shirt with the name of a well known location on it. An example can be seen below.

Another style of t-shirts that hip-hop artists wear are branded shirts. This can include Nike and Adidas so if I can't find a shirt with a city on it, Darrel should wear an Adidas or Nike shirt.

In hop hop music videos it is rare that the performer will be wearing bright clothes. I will follow this convention by choosing dark jeans and maybe a dark coat for the wardrobe in my music video.

Lastly, the pair of shoes that are worn in hip-hop videos are not usually specific to a brand or style. However they are rarely smart shoes. They are usually anything between sneakers and trainers. Examples are below.



A will also see if Darrel has any jewellery to wear, preferably a ring and chain necklace.

Planning: Props

Props are extremely important in a music video as they show in almost every scene and can influence the story telling throughout. My track is called 'Day Off' so the props that I will choose will have relevance to the story and the name of the song. For example in the first verse there is a line that goes 'Maybe i'll start looking up breakfast recipes to set the speed of what's ahead of me'. For this I will need either a cookbook or a smart phone to access a cooking recipe website.

Another prop I might need is Nando's food. More specifically 'A plate of hot wings, side of fries' to match the illustration of the songs lyrics. Perhaps also 'two McFlurrys to finalise'.

I will only use props that have some sort of relevance to the song. Although all of the props accumulated may become quite expensive I have set myself a budget of £100 which should be enough.