Leave You Music Video
I wrote the song Leave You in February of 2017. Since May of 2018 Moses and I have collaborated to produce the song and make it even better than what I heard in my head originally. I told him what I wanted and he knows my music taste in depth, so he was able to create a beat I loved. He did an incredible job of producing the song. I decided that it deserved a video.
I constantly watch music videos and I love SIA’s Chandelier and Elastic Heart Videos, both for the modern dancing and the way it is contrasted with the grungy spaces the dancers are in. I guess those videos helped inform my vision, which was originally a dichotomy of heaven and hell, with Maya dancing in “hell” and some people sitting around a table on the stage representing heaven. I eventually deviated from that theme with the discovery of the plexiglass boxes that were able to fit a person inside of them.
I have shot a music video before in high school and so I knew the basic idea of how to do it- choreograph the moves then take different shots of close up and far away. That approach got the job done, but I regret that I did not use two cameras filming at the same time to make it easier on myself. In a way though, the challenge of the dances in different shots being not exactly lined up was good, because I got much better at syncing up cuts so that they look more natural. During the editing process, I also discovered new tools and their shortcuts and I became much more comfortable with the program overall. This semester I have gone from never opening Premiere to feeling relatively competent with it. I still want to know how to cut video like in photoshop to layer it, that should be my next project.
I am relatively satisfied with this product, I felt like I could keep editing it forever and I just had to stop eventually. I know it’s far from perfect but I hope that it is an exciting way to communicate my song to others.
