Changing the characters in the video and editing my video

I have decided that I am going to change the characters in my video as I believe that I will be able to develop my mise en scene.  With an already formed band in the media, it can be hard to change their personna in order to fit in with my own ideas for the video.  I think that with these new characters I have chosen will allow a better variety for the mise en scene as I will be able to shoot in more locations for longer. There is more accessibility with these members in that I am able to use a car. I am able to portray the image I am looking for in the video to demonstrate the general feeling of 'lads on tour'.  With these characters, I am able to vary my types of camera shots better as they are not afraid to put themselves in to situations to fit my camera angles!

From creating a preliminary video to help me learn about the skills that could be used in my video making, I started to create my final video.  I was restricted with the amount of footage I had due to problems with arranging times for the characters to be filmed.  However, I embraced this problem due to the fact that in this genre of music, the videos the bands create tend to have a limited amount of scenes in them.  This is because of the low budgets they have to film the videos.  In my video, I wanted to stress the fact that I wanted to portray the band I had created as new and upcoming, therefore there wouldn't be much of a variety in setting.  Also, I purposely used a camera in the scenes of the band playing at a gig that wasn't of high quality to emphasise the idea that the band weren't of a high status that could afford high quality cameras. This is similar to the first music videos created by bands such as Enter Shikari and Deaf Havana which are in this music genre.

Below shows print screens of editing the video itself and including different transitions along with the clips.  I wanted to include these transitions as they helped compliment the meaning of the video.  At the upbeat points in the song, the transition would be quick and would include jump cuts. When the music slowed down, I used transitions such as fade.