Embedded Draft 2 video

Photos from shoot

Here are a few shots from the second shot of the stairs in town, we got many more better shots with improved angles to clearly display the narrative of the music video.

Self assessment

Looking back on the first draft of our music video, I can see a clear significant improvement with tones and emotions within shots. There are many more interesting angles and camera shots that effectively link together to create an effective narrative video. I definitely feel that the narrative and story in the music video is more distinctly portrayed to the audience, with the different scenes of the abstract stairs and naturalistic shots within school really give the idea of stress and anxiety as the angles work well in conjunction to the shots. The editing effects on the shots are very effective as they portray the feeling of chaos and stress to the audience, the contrast with the stair movement and stillness of the school scenes create a balance of tension and emotion.

I think that the editing for this second draft is much more effective than the first one, we worked harder to achieve a sense of confusion and loss to the audience getting them to understand the anxiety and stress through the angles and shots. It helped that the second stair shoot was much more successful than the first as we knew what we wanted to get out of the shots, the dynamic of stairs, school and sea blend together well to create a sense of ambience that contrasts well with the jarred movement of the stairs and running.

In the next draft of the music video I wish to include a better sense of the narrative as I still think that the narrative is not as clearly shown to the audience as it could be, so that will include adding in more school shots mixed in with the stairs and sea.

Targets for improvement

• Include more shots in the school
• create more interesting shots with editing
• use a wider range of shots
• play around with editing and effects in premier pro
• be more creative with shots
• create a timeline of events within the video