1. Music Video Evaluation
For this task we had to work in a small group or pair to put
together a music video. My partner was Nicole and she gave us
the idea of doing it fitness related, we then chose the song
‘Robert Miles – Children’ and she explained how she we could
video her dad and his Thai Boxing group for it, then I told her
how I could use my friend Michael to do some shots in the gym
or lifting weights and doing bodybuilding training. Our ideas
then came together pretty neat and after completing all our pre-
production which involved storyboards and mood boards
piecing each detail together, we then started to film our music
video. The footage we recorded is in good quality; however a
couple of shots could be to a better standard so they were
more clear and detailed. Whilst recording we also experienced
difficulty as Nicole’s dad, one of our main characters, sprained
his ankle so we were unable to film his training meaning we
didn’t manage to capture all the footage we needed which is
why the outcome of the music video doesn’t exactly match our
storyboard; but we did try our best to make up for this in the
editing.
When I uploaded the footage and put it onto the software, I
began to put it in the correct order and I also tempered with the
speed of some clips to make sure everything was in time with
the music. I cut out parts of the song that weren’t needed
instead of filling it with more clips so it didn’t look like it was
dragging, however when I did this I had to use a fading effect
on the music to make sure there was no dead air or sudden
change of tune/beat.
I tried to make my music video look as professional as possible
so I did a lot of investigating with the colour schemes to see
what kind of effect would match the theme and music. At first I
2. thought I was going to go for a black and white effect but I
couldn’t find any reason it would relate to it and it didn’t look
how I imagined it to. So, I continued to experiment with
brightness, different colour effects and especially contrast as I
think this really manipulates the video well. I tried various
different things and reset it and started again numerous amount
of times, editing the colours was the biggest challenge for me,
but in the end I ended up going for a cool kind of effect which
brought out a bit of blue but also highlighted the red in my
videos which I wanted because red relates to energy and that’s
what the footage was packed with as the characters are
obviously working hard and putting a lot of effort in. I brought
the brightness down a bit to show the exhaustion behind the
video and I increased the contrast levels to show the outline of
all the different colours, especially the blacks as they look very
bold.
Here are some examples of this:
3. Also, here are some examples of different shot types we did
including long shots, close up shots, mid shot, etc:
4. Overall, I am pleased with the outcome of my final production of
my music video but I feel like with a bit more time I could have
completed it to perfection. I have tried m hardest to be
organised and put in a great amount of effort into the shooting
5. and editing of the footage. I think it would look that little bit
better if the footage was sharper and clear, also if we had all
the clips we intended to film on our storyboard.
