The contest is open to everyone in our school district and we always get a lot submissions that get passed on to judges to be evaluated and scored. I worked with two of my closest friends to make a video to the song My House by Pvris.
We took a few weeks to look at the lyrics in hopes of finding a deeper meaning to the words and watched the official music video to get a better understanding of the lighting and video components that we may want to add or incorporate into our own. In the end we decided to tell the story of a girl leaving an abusive relationship.
The official video:
Our video:
The actors that we used were from a different school than my group so we had to get together over the weekend after a week of filming a short film that our whole department took part of (details to come). So needless to say we were already tired but took on this task anyway! The shots outside on the street were actually filmed from a moving car, my car to be exact. I gave my friend my keys, opened the trunk and sat there holding the camera where I wanted it to be all the while telling the driver to speed up or slow down. But that was just for the eye ish level shots. To get the above angle shots, we switched cars and I was in the sun roof of my other friends car. All the while we were doing this my friends neighbors were watching us very intently, one of them came up to us and told us what we were doing was "super cool" and that he " liked our style". So that was a nice way to end day one.
Day two on the other hand was a bit more challenging. We wanted our actress to break glass to symbolize her shattered relationship and to mock how the boyfriend threw around such a fragile thing. So we went into our schools studio, got a 1 ft x l ft L.E.D panel to light the scene and turned out the lights. Unlike the first day, when she looked more innocent, we wanted her to look very punk rock/ hard core. In the what I like to call the "Empty Room" shots, we put handcuff s on her left wrist while the other cuff swung free to show the freedom she felt leaving that God awful relationship. We lit her from an above angle and took the camera and placed it in the positions we wanted it. In the background one of my friends played the song on her phone so our actress could lip sync more accurately.
I hope to make more music videos soon and post them here! Leave me comments with songs you think I should make videos for. Please subscribe to my channel here and check out my friends channels in my Featured Channels list.
