Idea and Inspiration
For my video story project, I was inspired by many fashion YouTuber’s who do hauls, lookbooks, and outfit ideas for different seasons. I decided to do a casual summer outfits lookbook of outfits I wear in the summer that are casual for going out in. As I know, everybody has their own individual style so these outfits may not look like a great option to everyone watching, but my hopes were to give some sort of inspiration with these different styles.
Design and Process
By watching a lot of different YouTuber’s with different shooting and editing styles, I was inspired to create this video combining the elements that I found to be visually pleasing. I did not include an audio of me talking or voicing over any of the outfits. I did this because I wanted to leave space for viewers to have thoughts of their own when viewing these outfits. I did add background music to the entire video to prevent awkward silence.
I was very inspired to try out the frame around (certain) clips by layering the clip over the solid pink background/another video and then scaling down the clip in front in order for the background to frame itself. I thought it added a cute touch and created more texture to the video. I also tried to match the beat of the music to the clips, but I may need to work on it a bit more and organize the clips better. I purposely did jump cuts instead of smooth transitions because it seemed to look much better this way. I added texts for each outfit in the upper right corner, but I may change it when I edit the final video.
Technical Detail
This video was shot on my Samsung S9 with the front camera, and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro. I think that the quality may be better if I shot it with my back camera, but I preferred the front camera, as I could see myself while filming. I positioned my phone on top of a tall drawer so that it was at a good angle. I found it hard trying to find a good place to film where I could position my phone onto something high enough, and had good lighting. Thankfully, I had an extra room in the house that was empty, and had bright sunlight shining through in the evening time. I think that the shadow of the blinds adding a nice texture to the video.
Sources and Materials
Background music: “Chill Day” by LAKEY INSPIRED is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Hannah's Closet 