Production Diary

This week I have been watching and analysing some music videos, more specifically I analysed videos made by students who have already finished their video and seeing them gave me an idea of what is able to be created, both good and bad.

From watching these videos there are some things which I like a lot and would like to incorporate into my music video such as the use of lighting and contrast - also desaturating the colours of the video and using time lapses. Some things that I didn't enjoy that people had in their music videos was not having the subject in focus sometimes which made the video look very unprofessional as the camera wasn't focused on anything, the shot was just blurry. Another thing I will be avoiding is having bad lip syncing as it doesn't do the videos any justice.

Student Music Video Analysis

This is a video made by past media students which I enjoyed and have taken inspiration from. Aspects of this video that I particularly enjoyed were the time lapses of the sky with the clouds rapidly moving across the sky and the sun setting, I also liked the time lapse which they did showing the shadow of the tree moving and would like to incorporate similar techniques into my music video if possible.

Another thing that looked good was the fire burning with the sunset in the background, this fit well with the theme of the video and the composition of the shot was well done, with the colours of the sunset contrasting with the fire and then the actor standing by the fire to make the shot more dramatic and interesting.

The lens flares which can be seen throughout the video along with the desaturated colours in most of the shots make the video look professional and the lighting of the video is exceptionally well done, it is a huge part of what makes this video look so good. Another aspect which made this video look good was the skill of the actors, keeping a serious attitude throughout the video and not breaking character, which is something that happens in a lot of the other music videos made by students.

Production Diary

During this week everyone had to make a lyric video for a song that they chose, I chose to do Animals by Maroon 5 and created the lyric video using Premier Pro. This gave me an idea of what editing the music video would be like and I think I'm prepared to do that.

Animals Updated Video

I edited the colours a bit and fixed a few timing issues that there were in the previous video that I posted on my blog.

Lyric Video - Animals

We had to choose a song and create a lyric video to go along with it, this is what I created.