Rough cut 5: John Mayer- Why Georgia

This is an update on our music video for Why Georgia by John Mayer. We have included more romantic narrative footage at he beginning of the music video as well as footage of the musician character entering the record store. For the record store footage what we are planning on doing differently next shooting is that instead of the character purchasing a guitar he'll purchase a record and at the same time the couple will be introduced into the scene looking at records/ CDs of the artist and a gig poster from him. We will attempt to keep the musician anonymous throughout the diegetic introduction, so that he'll be introduced to the audience when the song begins.

Furthermore within this new clip we have experimented with layering and slow motion in some of the live performance clips. To correct the layering clips we will use a green screen so that the background will not be visible when layering it onto another video. Furthermore, instead of just having performance footage from the pub we will include busking footage as this will represent the aspect of a struggling musician. This footage will be shot in town by the Grande Rue where the musician will be seen performing to a passive audience. The couple will also be seen within these shots listening to the music and giving money to the musician. To add to the mise-en-scene we will decorate the guitar case and do close up shots of it when the audience is throwing money into it.

As for the bedroom footage we are planning on adding more to the background to make it more visually interesting and adding light behind the camera as the environment was quite dark making the footage seem grainy. The video is not synched with the lyrics after the character is seen at the coffee shop as we are still currently editing and planning on changing the bedroom scenes where the character is seen wearing a white T-shirt as this is when we still had a dull background, which we are now planning on changing.