Overlaying footage

When editing out footage, we decided copying the same piece of footage and overlaying it gave a sense of Lauren being disorientated and lost without her lover. There are many different ways we used this method. One way we used this method was taking two pieces of footage of the same dance sequence, one as a long shot and one being a close up. We lowered the opacity of the closed up and overlay it with the long shot.


Another way we created the sense of Lauren being 'lost' was by copying the same piece of footage, lowering the opacity, slowing down the footage a little, and covering it over the same piece of footage and the next piece of footage too.


Another example of this method was when Lauren does a pirouette, we overlayed the footage twice and started it a second after the last one began. This resulted in it appearing as if she span three times, making it interesting to watch and portray the sense of her being confused, lost and disorientated now her boyfriend has gone.

For my DVD cover, I took a still of Lauren, copied it, lowered the opacity of the second image, and overlayed it. When I overlayed the second image, I placed it a little to left to emphasis the second image disorientation she has from losing her boyfriend. The overlay is faint but noticeable, making people want to look closer at the packaging, and intrigued about the music video. 


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