Most of our inspiration comes from Toby Lockerbie's video for Rizzle Kicks 'Prophet'. We felt that the use of using single long exposure shots was really unique and something that had never been done before. We also felt it gave a really professional look. Toby Lockerbie himself has never worked with any other artists and only works with Rizzle Kicks because he attended university with them, he is actually a full time wedding photographer. But from the videos he has made with this group we can see that he has a specific style with all of his videos which is that all of the colours seem slightly lowered and dulled. He also uses steady cams in his videos which gives it a more relaxed looked.
There is a small section of video that we can relate to as the lyrics come up as they are sung over the top of the video in a 'projection' style.
We can really draw inspiration from the way that this shot is constructed as we could see what the best amount of shots to use for each word can be which really will help speed up the speed of our editing. I think a large part of the challenge of this video is to make sure that it doesn't just completely copy his video, so this led us to come up with the idea of using an actual projector, and also for the style of video to vary between the verse and chorus.
Have you done any experimenting with the technology yet? Do you foresee any difficulties?
ReplyDeleteWe experimented with the technology of using the long exposure a few weeks ago and it worked really well, so we then decided to experiment more with the ideas of using the lights to create words using the lights and the long exposure. Now it worked in theory (In that we managed to write out words) but the practical side of managing to write words backwards while keeping it all within the camera viewfinder was tricky, we also used a different camera to which we used when we originally tried out the technique, it wasn't as advanced and therefore couldn't continually take flash pictures, hence we are fixing this by taking pictures now in the daylight in norwich which will still work and we will just use the flash slower in the darkness.
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