Lighting

As our music video was animation, we had no control over the lighting in a traditional sense. We did however, choose to set all of our scenes during the daytime. This is to reflect the positive mood

and themes of the video. Despite our female character being upset, the story is being told from the perspective of the happy male

character, and is about his efforts to cheer her up. This is why we don’t feature any shots with darkened or nighttime shots.

Lighting effects• Despite being an animation, we did incorporate some lighting effects.

For one scene transition we zoom the camera up to the sun, to the point where it is an extreme closeup. We then add a lens flare effect as we pull the camera back out to reveal the new scene. We also use a lens flare later on in our footage in the last scene. The sun descends down to shine on the seed planted by our male character. We add the lens flare effect, then brighten up the rest of the scene while it is present to make it seem like the sun is ‘shining’. We performed this lens flare effect by using adobe Photoshop.