After a class critique on May 10th, I had changes to make to the music videos.

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Having advice from my peers was helpful. So, on the 15 May I played around with
the blend mode for the flowers that overlay the dance. I tried different opacities and
different modes such as darken, lighten to see which one worked best.

This screenshot shows what the flowers would look like with the hard light mode
selected. It has 32.9% opacity. I feel like this looks weird so I decided to look at what
the other blend modes would look like.
This is the dissolve mode, but I didn’t like it as it made it look spotty and I feel like it
makes the quality of the video look bad overall.

This screenshot shows the soft light blend mode with 100% opacity. I think a lot of the detail
of the flowers have been lost so I feel like this blend mode won't work as only half the flowers
are visible.
The flowers were a video, so they were moving too which was a little distracting to
the cinematography of the dance. So, I decided to change it to a photograph so that
the flowers were still. I wanted to have the overlay as the background of the dance is
a little dull, it’s a blackout curtain and I wanted a flower theme throughout the music
video. After changing the video to a photo of the same flowers I then started looking
at the blend mode under the effect controls in premiere pro.

The photographed flowers in Lighten blend mode with 18.2% opacity.

Soft light 100% opacity. I think this loses a lot of the colouring of the flowers as the
curtain is dark and the look of the flowers.

Soft light70% opacity (below) this has gotten more detail since the screen shot
above; the complete detail of the flower photo still isn't there.
Then I decided to resize the photo so that I was cropped closer to the actual flowers.

40% lightened blend mode (cropped image)

The flowers have gained a lot more detail now. It's also allowing the dance to be
seen better.