Insomnia Final Group Pitch

Faithless 'Insomnia' 30sec clip ROUGH EDIT

Our rough edit is a short clip we put together to get a feel for the music video we are planning on creating, we used different locations and different shots/angles to try find perfects shots for our clips. Also this clip provided us time to experiment with the editing on our music video, therefore we were able to know what worked well and what didn't.

Our Group

The group i am in is with two other members of my class after an in depth discussion about who should go with who we came to the conclusion that me, Declan Williams and Jake Wilson would work in a group well together. This excluded George Holmes and Ben Brearly.

The song we are going to make a music video for is Faithless - Insomnia 

Here is the original video:

Faithless timings sheet

Final timings sheet from williamsdeclan

Faithless 'Insomnia' 20s clip EDITING

On wednesday the 9th Oct we edited our 20sec clip, we wanted to experiment with different effects we could use, different shot types and different locations. When filming we filmed roughly an hours worth of footage of all different angles and shots that would make it easier for us in the editing process.

One of the first effects we used was layering we achieved this by reducing the opacity of the clip and copying and pasting it over the original clip. this creates a layered image on screen in in the bathroom shot where our character was sitting on the toilet this proved to be very effective with the cast effect.

The cast effect was one of the effects we first used, through looking through the different effects provided be Final Cut Pro the image showed dark colours which is what we were trying to achieve as the lighting in the location we used was very bright.

All - German Expression Style - Anthony Corbijn

When getting some feedback about our sample sequence we gathered advice about different shots and methods that we can use in our main video. I then was told about Anthony Corbijn and his use of the german expression style, which uses shadows of people against other things. We went for this idea then in our sample sequence using a dark room and a light to show the shadow against the wall, using different actions to emphasise emotions.

Insomnia-Can't Get No Sleep pitch

Insomnia - Can't Get No Sleep

Like in the original video it will be a very dark themed video. I plan on making shots like on the left, by using the dark room provided by school, miming the words.

Not just this but I will also include peoples hand (hopefully scary girls) to put their hand on the person mimings face, dragging him into the dark.


My idea will be mainly dark, just showing the nightmares of the artist and how he struggles with insomnia. Showing his nightmares e.g demonic girl and boys.

We will follow the artist through a dark street when he lip synchs using dark lighting to show the darkness he is in. The main aim of the video is to provide an insight into his insomnia problem, showing flashbacks of his nightmares