Marking previous music videos

Cold Hands -

• 25, Level 3
• The camera was too blurry.
• Actress smiled at camera and came out of character, this ruined the effect of a sad girl.
• However it was a good storyline and the singer fit the part extremely well, it look as if it was his real voice the whole time.
• Some shots are not controlled (out of focus).
• Clear narrative with shooting material appropriate to the viewer.
• A lot of the shots included the 'artists' back, meaning lip syncing was missed and it looked like the 'artist' has their back to the camera/audience.
• Not a variety of shots - could have been more tracking/panning shots.
• The artist could have been more enthusiast during his performance - a lot of it was just him standing still playing his guitar.
• The images/shots were appropriate for the viewer.
• Not too many effects used, however this matched the pace of the song.

East of Eden-

• 35, Level 4
• Amazing editing skills.
• Horses/unicorns added an interesting effect and made me more intrigued.
• Great reverse shots.
• The singer in the pool was random and I felt it was unneeded as I did not see the point of her being in there and what it represented.

Bad Romance-

• 21, Level 3
• Should not have chosen a well known song that already has a music video as you will never be able to be as soon and raise up to the expectations presented.
• The singer did not fit the part.
• Looked unnatural.
• Cringy.
• However the editing techniques were quite interesting but good.
• Guitar was not appropriate for the song. This means some of the visuals were not matching of the lyrics.
• Lip syncing was not always adequate for such a powerful song.
• Props and costumes were clever, matching the genre and the artists usual image.
• I liked how the shots weren't repeated a lot, meaning you were always wondering what was going to be the next scene.
• Effects with the cloning were clever.
• Camera shots were not always controlled.
• Was creative.

Dull boy-

• 32, Level 4
• Synergy with the colour purple.
• Good use of editing to add in purple to the lights and backgrounds.
• Great cuts and nice reverse shots.
• Good storyline, drew the audience in.
• Not always controlled use of the camera, for example at the beginning there was a out of focus/jumpy tracking shot.
• Editing with the pink/purple was clever.
• Images were appropriate for the genre.
• Variety of shots.

 

Donnelly&Vans de Zande -

• 39/40
• Content/visuals appropriate for the genre.
• Controlled use of camera.
• Cloning edit for clever.
• The transitions between the shots were clever.
• Close attention to mise en scene.
• The transition between people around the dinner table to mannequins was clever.

 I Kissed a Boy -

• 35/40
• Visuals were appropriate for the lyrics.
• A large variety of shots used.
• Controlled use of camera.
• Editing was clever with over laying shots and with the ghostly effects.
• I liked how every so often it was flicker to colour imaginary.
• Could have been more locations used as was quite predictable.
• Visual pace matched the music's pace.
• Mise en scene could have been more adventurous.
• I liked how it was edited in black and white as it matches the vibe of the music.

Audience

I consume music through headphones from my spotify on my Iphone, apart from when I am alone in my room as I just listen to it out loud without earphones. I consume music on a daily basis - mostly to cheer myself up and distract myself from the stressful school work. Apart from listening to music at home in my bedroom, I also listen to it whilst in the car through a radio, at work and at parties. I find my music choice is always to upbeat my mood and not to bring my mood down. However I occasionally like to listen to slower paced music if I have no energy or are feeling calm. Music sometimes also plays in the background when I'm home alone so the house isn't in silence. It also able's me to express myself through what I listen to, a person's music taste often gives someone an insight into who they are and what they like.

Summer Homework

After looking through all the other music videos I have come to the conclusion that this is my favourite video-


I really like this video as I feel the girl playing the singer really fits the part and plays it well. Its a very fun and entertaining video which makes you want to get up and dance! The editing with all the cuts is exceptional as even though they have so many they are still able to sync the music with her lips and of what I could see, there was no mistakes. The camera quality was also a big factor of it as it made the whole thing look so much better, the more detail you can see the better it looks.

I find this image above really sets the scene and immediately allows the audience to know who is the main star and who is higher than the others. Sitting the main singer in front of the other girls shows that all focus needs to be on her, especially as the other girls are blurred out.

Her bright blonde hair also helps with this as it makes her more out going and eye catching.

 

However in the picture below she is still the main focus even though she is at the back, it is showing that wherever she is and no matter what situation, all eyes are on her at all time. Although it still allows you to look at the attractive men as well as the pretty girl.

 

Prelim Task

MV prelim tasks from Katrina Brookes on Vimeo.

Our prelim starts at exactly 3 minutes 10 seconds.

Evaluation

Props for music video

After deciding we are going to perform the recreation of the Man Don't Care as our prelim task I collected all the props for the selected time use. We have a ski mask because I have one at home, I'm borrowing a snap back off of Charlie weeks, Evan said he had a wand we could borrow for the video, We were going to borrow a basic school laptop, we will use one of the group members IPhone, our teacher has black and white handkerchief in her prop box, I will borrow one of my school mates car keys, our teacher also said she would bring in alphabet squares and we need a big group of people to come in wearing black.

Unfortunately we were unable to get a ski mask so had to use a scarf instead, however this was not noticeable in the video so did not cause any major problems. All other equipment's needed were easy to get to as we just had to ask around for who had what and sorted it out within seconds. Luckily we chose a video with easy objects which were mostly used in daily living situations so we did not need to buy any excess things.

Storyboard for 'Man Don't Care'

This is our story board for "Man Don't Care". Most of the shots within the video are mid shots or close ups. Most of the transitions within the video are also basic cuts except for one wipe down which will be easy to do on adobe premiere. I also need to find out how to do cloning on adobe premiere because that is featured in the video and I also need to figure out how to do a fire effect because it will be too dangerous to actually set fire to a microphone.

 

I found the storyboard doesn't usually help me as the situation changes when you start to film as objects get in the way and situations have to be changed. However although we changed a few things I found that having the storyboard gave us a good outline of what we needed to do step by step. In the real music video I will make sure that the storyboard contains more detail, including times and stop starts. This will help us more if we get lost along the way and lose track of what we are doing. People should be colour coded to help you realise who is playing what and where they should be at that exact moment. Also more detail in the description will be added in, such as step by step movements so that there is no moment where we are unsure of what we need to do.