Music Video: Evaluation.

Lloyd's TSB Dubstep Remix Music Video Evaluation.


Overall through-out the project, I gained up various amount of skills (mainly camera-work and editing) but before I never fought I could of improved in these areas. As the filming schedule for my partner and I went rather well due to us picking up the camera on time and filming straight away so we could gain the footage as quickly as we could as we knew due to the outlook and genre of music we had chosen editing may take over most of our time, which we expected. However the only downside was due to us living so far part meeting up to film became an issue so we divided the filming to make it fair on both parts and mainly easier for us. As for my half of filming, it went as planned and the weather luckily didn't let me down as we needed not total sunny weather but an average slight cloudy day to set the urban feel/believable to viewers. Also due to this advantage I took the opportunity to set a tripod up on an high up point to capture a couple of establishing shots, which I panned across the view to maximise the length of the clip, this is did both at day and night to totally capture to view and setting. The skill I gained from this was the ability to pan smoothly and effectively. It to abit of practice but improvement came quickly with a few takes.

The main filming involved in the music video was handheld cam. This we needed to create the personal perception image we wanted the video to achieve, or tho it will eventually be sped up or edited to create the abstract/trippy atmosphere for the video. The filming on this half went as planned, I drove as I got an friend to film his view as a person. This would overall capture a persons journey which is vital to the video. Various issues came about when filming. First was the camera I was given was slightly large and became hard to hold in a certain position but with the use or a pillow and material to position the camera in a comfortable and in a way to not sabotage the filming. Secondly was the ability to film smooth, sharp shots or footage to totally capture the 1st person feel and to as if if was filmed not like this it could be unwatchable or totally unsatisfactory. This I knew I could achieve straight away but with a couple of practice takes and play around with the camera finding all the button locations and positioning of my hands and body. I slowly improved resulting in total control over the shots either on a tripod or hand held. Maybe I admit totally professional but a vast improvement compared to when I first picked it up.

Editing the video was the main milestone we needed to get past due to our approach for the music video, editing would create the atmosphere for our video and almost explain the scenario/character as time went on. As we knew the time which editing would take, we meet up various times out of lessons to form the video and edit until completion. Skill wise with editing we both had experience however with different technology/application, so using the mac's at first became a right issue and slowed editing down due to our lack of knowledge. But our abilities to overcome this helped an with a couple of seasons practice and seeking advice from more experience people (teachers, class mates etc) I much improved being able to add video transitions, video filters, clip alignment, video structure and overall the ability to use Final Cut Pro (available from the macs) fluently and at least understand totally what I was doing. By our editing skills improving to the level we needed, we could create the surreal effect to the video resulting in the unknown atmosphere to whats going to happen next giving us total control over the audience. This I believe at least ourselves could look back at the video and be happy to what we achieved over all the hours of staring at a screen editing to driving endlessly to capture to total view/shots to make a unique video and the ground streetwise 1st person accounts/footage to give it that total personal experience touch we overall set out to achieve.