Cherry Moon.

For my Music Video project, I was quite nervous since it was officially the first time I would properly edited a piece of footage.






Beforehand I had only edited a 30second bit of footage that had no cuts and was primarily just to get a sense of what tools to use in the editing program. However, that editing program that I used (which was last year in 2015 in UCA Canterbury) was called Final Cut Pro.




The program used this year was called Premiere Pro, which I had no experience using. However I believe that I gained quite a lot of knowledge on how to use this editing tool, even more so than photoshop, and I found myself thoroughly enjoying it. (:D)

The editing software was quite easy for me to get to grips with, at least when it concerns the basics, but I wasn't confident enough yet to try something to outragous or even really too structured, so I wanted to play around and experiment with what I had learnt. 

But now I had the problem with finding the right music and inspiration from another music video artist. I suppose in a sense I should have done both, but I instead focused more on the music and used the actual music sequence as the source of inspiration itself.

The music I had chosen was called Cherry Moon by the techno group, Lorn. I usually listen to this song whilst trying to concentrate on work. I wanted to do something unique (hopefully) in my music video where instead of creating a coherent narrative or a sharply cut music video. I wanted to create a piece where the images and footage would complement the music, and 'move along with it'.
The obvious problem with this is the lack of choice of what we had to use as film source, since beforehand we had to film two dance students, which was to be the basis of the video. I later learnt after that  other sources could have been incorporated into the video, but it was too late and even if it wasn't, I'm not sure how I would have done so (but I'm sure I could have learnt how to).


Themes of "Cherry Moon"

The main focal point of this video whilst editing was to figure out how exactly the images was to play alongside the music, but still have some sort of intrigue and coherency for the audience. I decided to tell a very loose narrative based around the idea of relationships involving interaction. There is no direct relationship that is adressed; there is no "love" or "hate" relationship, but a sense of the simple elemnt of a "push-and-pull" relationship; how one effects the other and visa-versa. There is also a third party element, the spotlight, or the "Cherry Moon", which represents a source of otherworldly influence and a reason for these relationships to exist (e.g religion, science, love, hate etc)

Different sections of the video would show each 'characters'' perspective, including the light. and the 'finale' of the video ultimately show how they all come together.
The idea is very loose, and i wanted to keep it that way, so I could experiment more and also leave room for interpretation from the audience.