The concept of our video was very simple, consisting of essentially only 1 scene in a dimly lit interior room. This made shooting easy, since I didn’t have to juggle locations and I could control lighting very easily. However, I had to pay more attention to continuity than usual because the set is shown from many angles throughout the scene and I had to make sure that in each scene the details like the arrangement of books on the desk, pillows and blanket on the bed, and where the backpack was placed, remained consistent.
The only camera used on the shoot was a OnePlus 6T. This is my personal phone, and it’s a mid-tier Android phone which doesn’t have particularly good camera quality and has no optical image stabilization. This gives most shots a grainy, shaky quality that looks less polished and thus more intimate and authentic, both of which are better for the theme of the video. Furthermore, because of the way that video is edited to long sustained notes in the song, wobbling the camera or changing camera focus gives the viewer something to look at during these still shots.
I included two spiral shots in the shoot, one zooming in and one zooming out at the end of the shot. These are both long shots and are meant to be a visual representation of someone’s life spiraling out of control as well as to build tension in a video that doesn’t have much in the way of a plot.
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