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 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 any 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 also did the layering clip with other backgrounds I filmed with the dried plant and the curtains. 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. I purposely did jump cuts instead of smooth transitions because it seemed to look much better this way. I also left a black blank space between the outfits and the clip where I entered the car. This was intentionally done, as I wanted to create a “pause”. I also added texts for each outfit in the upper right corner.
I received feedback’s from classmates who suggested a “dip-to-black” transition at the end of the video for a more smooth ending, which I added for my final draft. I faded out the music towards the end as well. Another feedback was that the blinds/lighting was distracting, but I ended up still liking the blinds as it added texture and highlights to the clothes. I tried filming in a solid lighting and didn’t like it as much so I kept the original clips.
Technical Detail
This video was shot on my Samsung S9 with the front camera, and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro. 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 and highlight and shadows to the clothes.
I created many jump cuts of different angles of each outfit. I also sped up a few clips to 200% or 250% that I wanted to include, but seemed too slow. A fading out transition for the clip and audio was added to the end of the video for a smoother ending. I did not add transitions anywhere else in the video as it may have been too much and become “cheesy”. The layered clips where done by layering a background clip under the clip I wanted to use, and scaling down the front clip to 91.9%
Sources and Materials
Background music: “Visions” by LAKEY INSPIRED is licensed under a Creative Commons License
Hannah's Closet 