DESATURATION EFFECT

After watching both the student’s project ‘Walking Home’ and The Script’s ‘Breakeven’ we found that we really liked how the scenes where the ‘vocalist’ is on their own are desaturated and so we decided to experiment with this to see what it looks like. This effect has added to the sad and lonely atmosphere as there are lots of prominent shadows and also the lack of colour is often related to the idea of sadness. So we applied this effect to our own music video and we found that the contrast between the desaturation and the high saturation within the performance scenes help to differentiate between the different moods and atmospheres. It also creates a sense of pathetic fallacy as the sky appears really dark and so it reflects the mood of the music and the rest of the visuals. The desaturation effect also creates a relationship between the lyrics, song and the visuals as the atmosphere is being matched.