Editing research

Editing Research

In the original video of “Losing my Religion” there is a lot of quick white flashed editing affects which represent the lack of stability created from the lose of faith. We wish to use a very similar effect within our music video not only to link with the original but to also represent the lack of stability and mass state of disequilibrium. An example of where will use this is within our transitions. The original video also contains a fair amount of blurred effects and changes in depth of field to show possibly a distorted vision and unrevealed truth, again we wish to use this within our video to link with the original and to represent distortion, confusion and stress, we will use this effect mostly within our close up shots to deliberately distort a characters face to that life can be so stressful and depressing it can almost become blurred and distorted. Our video will contain a lot of effects such as blurred depth of field and quick random white flash transitions to create lots of distortion and confusion, this will keep the audience puzzled and allow them to create a story and representation for themselves thus making the video full of writerly content instead of readerly.

Another effect used a lot in the original video of “Losing my Religion” is the use of different types of lighting such as the spotlight, which appears to be a favourite type of lighting used to create priority amongst the characters and show who the audience should be looking at. Our video will be using lighting effects but not with the spotlight as that is to readerly instead we will use lighting effects to represent the dark and depression that the characters are going through, an Omni light would be ideal for use as the singular light shining on a specific area creating many different forms of representations that the audience an then decipher.

Shadowing and vignettes are also used frequently to represent a possible enclosing darkness, which is the truth, as the video appears to show how science and time is killing people’s deepest beliefs. So the dark vignette is used to represent that science is constantly revealing more and more facts that are forcing people to lose their faith and beliefs and this s seen as closing darkness form the vignette. Like the original we will be using darkened effects to represent a lose of faith except we will be using a vignette that gradually increases in size which could host a lot of different type of representations, we may also start the video in colour and then proceed to slowly de-saturate the scenes again showing lots of different types representations that the audience can decipher themselves

Finally we are using multiple slow-mo shots such as the falling of the ring and the shattering of the photo frame as these will not only show multiple representations but it will also allow the scene to last slightly longer than the other shots allowing them to be slightly shortened for the quick multiple flash transitional effects.