NW Brighton Photo's

Posted by Nick

After our trip to Brighton, (in which our aim was to capture a variety of shots using different sizes and movements, as well as creating images which were individual to our own video), we have made a collage of photos from the day out, showing the variety of locations which Brighton has to offer, thus making it an ideal location for any music video, keeping in with all genres, ranging from the sandy beaches for the ‘Pop’ videos, and the graffiti wall’s for all ‘Indie’ videos.

We wanted to capture some interesting and artistic shots which we could perhaps recreate for our music video, and thus we tried to reach some hard to reach areas which weren’t clearly visible from the main streets, for example, as you can see in a couple of shots, we ventured into a dirty and empty alleyway and took a picture with me in the shot, similar to ‘Rock star’ images, and the album cover for the Libertines 2004 self-titled album, as well as underneath the Brighton pier, capturing a beautiful shot which showed off the intricate yet rusted metalwork, compared to the natural beauty of the sea and pebble beach.

The wide angle shots of the beach also show off Brighton’s variety of untouched areas, which would be ideal for an ‘Indie’ video which was designed to give a ‘documentary’ feel, a style which has been incorporated for a variety of videos, including the Maccabee’s ‘Can You Give It’, and Peter, Bjorn & John’s ‘Nothing to Worry About’.

Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to create our short video showing the shots which we hope to use in our own music video, incorporating a variety of angles and movements, (as well as reminding ourselves how to use the camera equipment, as it has been just under a year since the last time we used them), as on the day of the Brighton reccie, we shot all our footage on my HD camera which has not been recognised by the school computers, the HD format not compatible with the editing software Premier Elements 3.0.

At the moment, technicians at the school are downloading software which will hopefully allow us to change the HD format with which our footage is in to a format which we will be recognised by the school computers, and when this is done we will be able to quickly edit and post our video. Whilst the images we shot have much more definition, as a group we have decided not to shoot again in HD as it is incredibly time consuming to convert the format, and this will consequently negatively effect our production as it slows down all aspects which contribute to making the video.