FINISHED Music Video

A2 Media Studies Music Video from lauryn reid on Vimeo.

Rough Cut of Music Video & Feedback

After the screening of our rough copy of our music video, our class gave us a lot of positive feedback as well as things we could change in order to make our video look better/ more professional

Positive comment made by members of our class was liking our use of visual effects - cutting to the beat and film dissolves, relating our shots to the lyrics, our locations - Leake Street and God's Own Junkyard and our overall theme - urban.

Some things we got told to improve is our lip synching as some point being out of synch, the brightness in one shot was too bright and our use of the male could be removed due to it not looking in the best quality.

We will now go back to editing our video and correct these errors.

Progressions

In todays lesson we continued to make more of our shots cut to the beat of the song as it gives the video rhythm and flow. This also makes the video interesting and keep a audiences attention.

We placed the cutting to the beat at the beginning and end of the chorus and inbetween the 4th verse.

Editing Music Video

In today's lesson we focussed on creating effects for our music video. The editing techniques we incorporated was cutting to the beat, reversing a shot and a 'film dissolve'. These were used to link with some of the lyrics heard as the effect is shown - "wish you could reverse" - shot is reversed, "I was on the fricking train" - film dissolve of a train going by as artist lip syncs and fast flickering so it cuts to the beat as the beat increases during the chorus.

More Shoots - Oxford Circus & God's Own Junkyard

It was suggested by our teacher that we needed to include more transition shots alongside of our artist lip synching so the video cut from different locations. We went to Oxford Circus and God's Own Junkyard to get suitable footage for our music video. 

This will create a break from the lip syncing and help to create more narrative for our music video as some of the shot we took in God's Own Junkyard displays images that are love related and so reinforces our theme. 

We placed the footage onto Premier Pro and in between some of the lip synch shots to see weather it flows well or not from shot to shot  

Editing Music Video

In today's lesson we arranged the footage of our male at particular moments of our music video. We had shots of him in close up, medium shots, long shot and panning. This allowed us a variety to chose from of him when editing. We made sure to place shot of him alongside suitable lyrics that help to connote meaning - lyrics linking to visuals.

Tv Studio Shoot

In our shoot we were using the Tv Studio to project red lighting onto the background of our male actor. 

It didn't take us long to set up as all we needed was red plastic to then attach to the studio lights to the make the colour project. Our choice to use red as the backdrop is because this colour is normally associated to connote romance and love - reinforcing our music video theme.

Me and my partner Layla first practiced with the lights to see how it looked before our male actor arrived.   

The red lighting looked good against our actor - Kian. 

The shoot was a success as we got the footage we needed for our music video and our now ready to edit our whole music video, as we have all of our footage.