In order to further my understanding of music videos, I recreated a portion of Jess Glyne’s hold my hand music video. To begin I went through the clip that I was recreating, and created a shot list of a variety of the shots used in the original music video, so I knew exactly what I needed to film, and I had all the coverage I needed to succesfully recreate her star image (Dyer). There was lots of cutting to the close up shot throughout the music video, with lip syncing throughout. Recreating this gave me the skills I needed to learn how to edit the beat, add transistions, and sync my recordings with the audio. In her own music video, Jess Glyne presents herself as extraordinary, in comparison to her ordinary friends, creating a theme of binary opposition (Strauss). Shown below is the shot list;

What went well in my recreation:

• Good money shots
• Variety of effects used
• Lip syncing is on time
• Succesfully edited to the beat

What could’ve gone better:

• One clip doesn’t have a colour filter on
• More enthusiam
• Wider variety of clips
• More backgrounds

By completing this task, I have managed to develop a basic understanding on how to use Premiere Pro. For example I have learned how to cut clips, add effects, edit to the beat, and mute clips.

As well as developing an understanding on how to use Premiere Pro, I have also gained insight into what the process of creating my music video will be like. For when I make my real music video, I will already have the basic skills of filming and editing, which will make the process alot easier.

The camera can be used to convey a wide range of meaning in a music video. So in order to begin gaining the skills to encode (hall) this meaing; in a group of three, we made our own 20 second music video in practice for our final video. We used Adobe Premire Pro to edit the music video, and an iPhone and tripod to film it with. When we begun filimg we filmed the three different money shots for the length of the whole song; these being a long shot, a ,mid shot, and a close up. We used a wide varety of different dynamic shots and angles during filming in order to create the correct energy and to achievce a postive reading from the potentialaudience that would listen to the song that we chose. We created this list before filiming our performance in order to establish a rough plan of the star image we wanted to create. To name a few of the shots we planned:

• Close up
• Mid Shot
• High Angle
• Low Angle
• Long Shot
• Pan
• Tracking Shot

Focus Forward:

Being able to name and utilise these different types of shots will help me to use these in my final music video, as well as more advanced filing techniques. Doing this has also helped me to begin to get to grips with how to use Premiere Pro, and to start practising the skills I’ll need later on.

How it went:

We edited the clips to be on beat, and we put the clips in chronological order so the model walking down the stairs was clearly an established part of the video. In contrast, in order to make the video better, some of the clips may have ran long, we could’ve added more jumpcuts, and fill the space with clips that we filmed that we didn’t end up using in the video.