Powder Paint: "Up in the Air" Comparison

The powder paint arrived on Sunday. 2.5kg in each tub. This is ready for the scene of our music video where there is going to be a fight with powder paint. This should be enough powder paint for our video. 

"Up in the Air" Powder Paint Scene Analysis 

The shots displayed are from Thirty Seconds to Mars "Up In The Air". The video has allowed me to look at shot types, regarding our own powder paint sequence in our music video with Enigma. The most effective shots have been close ups, focusing on detail of the subjects facial expression and the impact of the power paint hitting them, because it creates this soft dust effect, which looks really cool in bright colours. The colours are really vivid, standing out against the black background drawing more attention to the colours. The slow motion is also very important, because we can then follow the paint as it travel and it gives it a more artistic edge. Establishing and wide shots are very useful when showing a sea of colour and showing the action. When filming our powder paint scene for my music video, the wide shots are going to be hard to create, but with two cameras one will be hand held and focus on close ups and the other camera will focus on wide shots. That way we can get a variety of shots and angles to play with in editing. Because of our equipment we won't be able to do any difficult angles like the almost aerial shot.   

In the video the music has slowed down in pace and the slow motion works with the music. The transitions flow with the music and footage. The smoothness of the transitions and overall editing is something I hope to achieve in my music video.  

Experiment
 

 

Took a sample from Miss Lee in Art and tested it on my sister. The slo-mo was very effective, but I threw it directly at her and not on the side, so the effect isn't good as good as wanted, but it was still very useful and fun to do.