Final Music Video Evalu a tion

Preparing my music video I looked up the cost of equipment, space where the filming will take place, who in the group will be filming, directing and producing and who will be in the music video. The build up to filming was to make sure I was organised, making a story board and script helped me stay organised and helped me have a clearer image of what I wanted to film.

Watching other music videos and analysing them gave me the sense of what I needed from my music video. The angles, the action and the music. I watched music videos such as, Thanks for the memories by Fall Out Boy because it was performance based and that is what I wanted, I like seeing the band actually play the music, so I knew that I wanted that in my music video. I watched the way they filmed the band perform. The close ups of the equipment and wide shots of the band.

The idea in the recording studio came from watching “behind the scene” footage from Green Day, The Midnight Beast and Rihanna. I liked the idea of the “fly on the wall” effect, watching the band record the song, to show the audience how they do it and what they’re like off stage. To show their real character.

Music videos such as, Roll Away Your Stone by Mumford & Sons and I Will Wait by Mumford & Sons, were fun to watch because they were performing their music. Mainly in Roll Away Your Stone, the transition from the recording studio to the stage was very interesting to watch, throughout the whole video you’re watching the band perform, but in different places, made it very different.

Recording the music video was very easy. The two artists in the video, Joe and Connor were very comfortable and were helpful in helping me capture the right shots that I wanted. They had some suggestions of their own which was useful and it seemed as though they enjoyed making the video too.

The location we filmed in was Harrop Fold high School, Mr Bridge, a Photography teacher at the school, was very helpful, and was happy to help us film. He let us use the recording studio and use the school equipment, camera and tripod. He had some ideas for the music video and they were helpful by adding more footage to the video.

Elle and Clayton were up for filming and had ideas to pitch in and they were a very good group to work with, they felt comfortable to tell the band what they thought would look good, which made the filming process

a lot easier and quicker. We did feel after the filming that we didn’t collect enough footage, however, through the editing part, we worked with what we had and just to make sure; Elle and I filmed some extra footage in the radio studio in college.

The editing part was the easiest because I already knew where I wanted the footage and when I wanted it to be, to go along with the music. I didn’t really want many effects; at first I wanted it all in black and white. Then after going back to it and back to it, I began to add effects such as, having a piece of footage, playing over another piece of footage. This helped add something different to the video. The old effect was from watching videos such as, I Will Wait by Mumford & Sons because of its tint of a vintage look.

I didn’t want it to consist of this effect throughout the whole video because I wanted it to kick in at one point and be colourful. This was very different to my original idea of just black and white; however, I’m glad I made the change.

The final video consists of many original ideas and the new ideas have helped improve the video. I have used the same genre of music as my influence to match the song I used, Spaceman by The Killers. Because I want to do this work professionally I wanted it to be as professional as possible, which I believe it does. The group I have worked with have had a similar mind set as me which has made it a lot easier.