SIXTEEN – THE CAPE AS RED AS BLOOD

So today’s class, which I was totally late to again (I’M SO SORRY ROHAN), was interesting and informative on how colour grading a video can change how you read it. With Goldfrapp’s Tales of Us series it made them all seem linked, but not really. Each video we watched had it’s own small contained story, some sinister and others very perplexing. To be honest I was just captured by the colours, or lack of them, in the videos. They had this soft quality to them, since most of them had very little harsh blacks, but ranged from white to a mid grey. The aesthetic choice to do so was fantastic. I went home today and totally watched these music videos again and deducted that this one below was my favourite.

Today’s class got m e excited to start officially playing with colours in out video, especially since we have a lost of beautiful green in these shots. We may be moving towards a softer yellow as well, or could possibly stick to our original pitch idea and make it “vintage”. In all honesty even if we handed in our video just raw it would still look impressive, Jordan made sure of that. Anyway enjoy my little gallery below, it’s only three videos today, but it’s still worth watching.

1. Drew – Goldfrapp

This haunting video makes me melt. I’ve already said it’s my favourite one in her cinematic series, but I’ve realised it’s because the way the beach doesn’t come across as flat, even though there would have been very little colour in the raws makes me happy. There’s something in dimensions about this video that I hope we can replicate in our video maybe, especially with our big wide shots.

2. War of Hormone – BTS

I know, weird song title, but still a fun video. It’s definitely not the first of it’s kind to make everything else dull except for certain colours. But what I like about this one is that the red kinda matches with the rest of the grade. It doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb, but blend along with the blacks and greys. Plus cute boys dancing and touching their butts are one of my weaknesses my friends.

3. SOBER – BIGBANG

This video is my personal inspiration for how I would like Abby’s music video to look, but obviously we didn’t have a fog machine on site to capture the same effect. Although I have heard it is easier to soften up our shots similar to this degree. And yes guys, more KPOP, I thought you would be used to it by now.