Ria Timkin Music Video- Behind The Scenes
The filming process went amazingly, the whole day being productive from start to finish. Ria, her makeup artist and her photographer all working well and worked well with us. They brought some of their ideas to the table, us working together to choose the best possible shots to put into the video to represent energy in the video. The team worked well together, all of us bring ideas to the table and trying many ideas to see what worked well and what didn't work so well throughout the day. My friend, Anna McGuinness, helped me with the shoot by doing close ups. She also helped by being the Director of Photography whilst I was directing Ria on what actions and movements to do. Anna also helped me change the sets when the makeup artist changed Ria's makeup and outfit.
We had four different looks and three different sets. For the first two looks we had the same projections playing but with different makeup. For the next look, we used a glitch effect to project onto the background as it fitted well with her outfit and also presented energy well. For the final look, we had fairy lights hanging off the back wall, representing energy for the video and to bring in a different look to the music video. We also used a black background for when Ria had the lights around her arms and in her hands. This was so the audience will focus onto Ria and the lights and not the background. The idea came from Ria for this music video, many inspirational videos being linked to me to make sure we had the same visionary for the final video.
Ria is an easy client to work with, implying her own ideas and trying to help out as much as she could to help with the process. She gave a lot of leverage in the ideas, myself and Anna turning some down and her accepting the reasons easily and coming up with another. She had the same idea of the projections as myself before I even messaged her about the ideas, both of us being on the same page since day 1. This made the process much easier as we both had the same vision and this allowed us to work very closely. When Ria came down to work with us, she worked well and performed well. She also followed my directions correctly and gave her own ideas for what she could do. We gave her some free will on the actions and sometimes she would ask for directions or our opinions on what she would like to add into the video. She even brought the idea of the "ball of light" with her that we implemented into the video and worked very well.
