Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Amateur Video analysis

So far I've only looked at the processionals workings. Nobody has thousands of pounds spare for costumes, locations and expensive filming equipment so I have decided to see how people when they did their music video went about doing theirs, I've found an A2 music video from not long ago at all from another college who posted the video on YouTube and I will now analyse it and see what made in my eyes a success.



So the person has chosen an R&B dance song. Chase and Status & Plan B's "Pieces".

The firs thing Iv'e noticed is that the start is drawing to the audience. It appears the actor has vanished behind the bus. This is already showing that the person has thought about the video and he's making it interesting.

Secondly, there's a massive range of shots but I think it's because some parts of the song are slow and others fast. However all of mine is fast so I cant afford a clip of the same thing for more than a few seconds. For example, within the first twenty second, he's been shown standing still in two similar locations but its not because he couldn't be bothered to make anything interesting in the clip, its because he's speeded the clip up to make the video appear abnormally fast, again this is showing further intent that all the clips don't have to be moving, or have the same speed as normal time. I like the speeding up of things as this could become relevant to what I'm doing but unless I think of a particular scene on my video I don't think ill be slowing anything down.

When the music speeds up cuts are more frequent and scene changes have a transition effect to them they don't just change, however looking over my artists videos this doesn't happen so I think this is just a technique to admire and not use on mine. He has also used the multiple shot on one video section e.g four windows of him doing different things at the same time, as it;s something I've suggested in another part of my research I think ill do something like this.

Other camera angle include ones from cars that he's played on the video in reverse which further adds to the videos diversity. The video shows him in the same shot twice with interesting lighting for night-time. I haven't thought about the possibility of night-time shooting so it's something I could experiment with. He also includes slow motion, and other camera techniques such as pans, close ups and first person shots all of which I should do.

However what I did notice was that he wore exactly the same clothing throughout which I don't want for my video but he may have done this for a reason in his to follow its storyline. However I plan to have singing and a storyline in mine which is where my clothing on actors will change from scene to scene. Lastly he starred in the entire video almost completely by himself until near the end when the storyline comes to a close which indicates you can shoot most if not all of the video with one person in it, but it needs to be thought about a lot or else it will get boring.

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