Keep Grow Change Homework

Music Video Evaluation

As a whole I feel that our Music Video was well edited and thought out and by the end of the task our final product looked professional. Our chosen music for our music video was Adele’s most famous song Someone Like You which was a massive hit throughout the UK. The reason why we chose to do this song for our music video is that we thought it would be successful and quite professional to do on the college grounds. The only down side of choosing this song was that the planning for the theme throughout the video itself wouldn’t be that imaginative as the song is about a break up and the woman still loving the man and wanting to stay with him. So the typical theme to choose would be a girl being upset about a break up. It was very difficult to put a twist on this especially as we only had a lesson to shoot all our footage and shoot it all during our media lesson in college.

The filming as a whole went pretty successfully, we used the white media to shoot the majority of our video, then we also shot some of it outside the caretakers office then finally some end shots were taken in the little woodland area. The most successful shots were the ones which were taken in the white room, they worked particularly well as there was no background noise and the lighting was good. When we did the shots outside the caretakers office this was more difficult as we couldn’t use the CD player for the timing of the music and there was a couple of people that could be seen in the background of our shots. Our least successful location was the woods, it is very close to a busy main road meaning it was difficult to hear Jade singing the song and to get the timing right, this effected the quality of our editing in this area.

The editing as a whole was successful, we only had a couple of lessons to complete all of our lip sinking, cutting all of our shots together and then linking the music in time. As we used a varied amount of locations this allowed us to cut them together to make the story flow well and make it still interesting. Lip sinking was easy for the first half of the editing but as soon as we were using the wood location shots it began to get more difficult, as we could here jade singing at all, it took a lot of time to get it as close as we could. As a whole I feel that the task was good, I feel that our group could have benefited with some better planning, and maybe a bit more time to shoot our video.