Final Video

Here is the final video for this project. I am very pleased with the end result of it and despite the visual theme relying specifically on the astronaut suit in the video, the choice of location as well as the music also bring add something extra in creating a deserted, baron wasteland and a haunting and science fiction atmosphere.

Title & Quote

Like my previous project I really like the way I did a short text introduction to the story so they have a small understanding of what the short film's going to be about. As this one is about the end of the world, I called the video Earth DOD 2011AD, the DOD stands for date of death and I added the AD as a biblical reference as the date. As it's two letters that you rarely hear these days.

The quote at the start reads....

For centuries it has been in humanity's nature to self destruct. Many have prophesied that the death of our race would be caused from circumstances beyond our control. In the year 2011 their predictions.... were wrong.

Poster & Other Images

As I said before I also wanted to create a poster to go with this video, as going to the effort of hiring the costume I wanted to have as much footage as possible, including film and photography. Therefore I used a mask to cut myself out, used a series of different layers from the black background, the glowing stars on top and the clouds to the world in the top right corner. You can see the poster below as well as a screencap of how I did it on Photoshop.

Below are some more images from the photoshoot, which I edited using the raw settings that the photos were shot in.

Final Soundtrack

Below you can hear the final soundtrack for the video. I'm pleased with the outcome and glad that for this project musically, I did this something slightly different.

Earth 2011AD Soundtrack by Lookitsjon

Soundtrack Production

For the soundtrack for the music I wanted to create a more atmospheric piece something which would fit perfectly with my footage and something atonal and arhythmic, something similar to the soundtrack used in the Alien trailer.

I gathered different clips as well as loops ambient sound effects and sirens and combined them together creating a long drone of sound which will run throughout the video.

Extra Footage

As well as the film imagery I used, to take advantage of having this costume therefore I did photoshoot in it, my plan was to make an image to go with the video. I wanted to do some images against the black backdrop and also we did some on location as well.

Below you can see the thumbnails...

Post-Production

I once again edited my work using Sony Vegas, this time however the film was not as hard to edit, I think this was becuase of the music I was going to use didn't have a distinct beat therefore I less restricted with editing the video. At various points I did have to cut out some the astronauts journey to make the video flow better.

I also added visual fx for the film I increased the brightness and contrast and put a darker desaturated tint on top of my work. I also included stock footage of a nuclear explosion and of bad reception static TV. I felt this was effective through distorting the story towards the viewer and acted as a bridge between some of my shots which felt out of place.