We have managed to inlcude many different camera movements such as ped, pans etc… The camera movement reflects the audience is dancing along with the music. The up beat electronic dance music is exstremerly fast paced and was simply designed for people to be encouraged to get up a boogie all night long, therefore there is a lot of camera movement within the music video on purpose elevate the rush when you mix what you hear with what you are seeing. We made sure we wanted this music video to contastly keep changing up to keep the viewers glued and feeling engaged.
We also made sure we included a huge variety of shot distances to help the audience to establish everything in the scene and been drawed attention to important features which we want them to notice. Doing this also helps make scenes more exciting so the viewer does not loose interest in what they are watching, meaning there aren’t prolonged clips of a whole scene without any change up. Since our music is so snappy we have needed to add fast snappy clips create this pursonna that there is a lot going on, both physically within the song as well as metaphorically since the journey that the office worker has been take on is also clearly a lot for her to be feeling and taken in as well.
There are a couple of shot transitions which run smoothly between the iffice workers journey and the clips of her performing alone in the woods by herself. For example there is a ped up at the end of the first encounter which then transitions to a pan across the sky to a new location in the forest which establishes a new location where the office worker will be relaxed and dancing. This transition also is very clever as it contrasts the alley way before hand.
Although there are some minor blimps that need to be sorted, overall most of the footage is on time with the beat and follows the rythm nicely, we have included many short clips meaning that there are sections of clips that change frequently each time you hearevery individial coupleof beats.
What Needs Improvement
As we filmed off a very old camera, this meant things such as the composition and depth of field etc could not really be thought into as our camera did not allow us to play around with these sort of features. However we used the bad quality to an advantage as it reminds us of the era of 1970’s-1990’s where the era was trippy and phycodelic and the camera quality looked like this therefore since we are trying to achieve this spinny sorty of aesthtic the camera quality has not totally let us down.
We have added some minor video effects but have only just touched the surface and have been experimenting. So far we haven’t explored much at all, or atleast not diven as deep into editing yet as we would like to, this will be a vital part for our music video.
The fact that the rave scene has been added at the end means the the mes-en-scene has now got some sort of indication of electronic dance music, however there hasn’t been any actual footage of a dj, it’s more of lighting and people dancing.
The narrative is still missing very vitial chunks such as the office scene and back alley scene so currently this music video still doesn’t make too much sence.
Focus Forward
The is so many different effects and transitions we need to add in in order to create this spinny almost phycodellic kind of journey. Electronic music is vibrant and makes people dance hard and feel free so vaireties of shapes and colours will help the audience to associate the music video with the genre of the song because if you want something to stand out or look crazy, you make that work colourful which will add to the adbunace of everything that going on, which is a lot. Some of our footage also needs to be brightend as most of our footage due to the old camera we used was rather dark and dull which would not be the right atmosphere for some of our scenes as we want some scenes to be uplifted and happy therefore a dark and dull piece of footage would simply juxtapose this. We really need to get to filming the office scene footage, backalley footage, and greenscreen footage as right now the narrative does not make much sense and we really need to focus purely on editing and effects as that is so important to get done for our music video, its not just a case of tidy things up when it comes to editing its a case of crerating this sureal journey.