Music Video Review

 
       I watched the music video Secret Love Song by Little Mix. This music video was very well edited and put together. They had lots of different shots that changed frequently and they used all six shots of the six shot system. They also had many moving shots where the camera would move with the artist that was on the screen at that time. They also staged the shots very well, the backgrounds were interesting and went well with the story line. Their were also lights in the background were almost blurred out so they were very nice on the eye.

      The story that was being told was a love story about people that can't be together. They told the story by having the 4 female artist never together and having the male artist never with any of the female artist. They also have some shots where the male does one action than one of the females does another, so it was almost like that was a place they used to go to together.

    One element of this work I would apply to my work is how the camera moves with the singers because we have always been taught in news to never move the camera. One element I have already learned that was applied to this video is to use a stabilizer and to use the six shot system.

    Based on practice I think the creator told the story really well because he knew how to create just subtile hints. He also knew how to create drama by the different backgrounds and camera angles. One thing the creators work could have improved on is maybe having more shots that establish where the artist is because the male artist just appears in a random room.

    Overall I thought this music video was very well composed and everything flowed together really well. I can't wait to use what I learned from watching this music video and apply it to the one I'm going to make.

Music Video

 
   The past couple weeks in video class we have been working on creating a music video. This project was by far my favorite and hardest project I've done this year. It took about 3 weeks to complete and plan out.
  The first thing we had to do was select a song. We had a few restrictions for our song. First of all it had to be school appropriate. My group choose the song Tik Tok by Kesha.
  The next step is we had to figure what we wanted to do for our video. Like what shots we had to get, the concept, and the story. My group decided we wanted to create a one shot music video. we also had to figure out what props we wanted to bring for the video.
  The next step was to create a beat sheet. This is where you have to write down the lyrics of the song and then put what you're doing during those lyrics. This was how we planned out our whole video and how we knew what to do during certain shots.
   After we figured out what we were going to do for our video we had to film it. The filming process took awhile because we had to re film our video about 4 or 5 times. Everything had to be perfect since our video was a one shot.
    Along the way we had to learn how to use a dolly which makes the camera stable. We also learned that we should have used a flashlight the whole time we filmed because in some places the video is a little dark.
   Overall I'm happy with the way this video turned out and I learned so much while filming this video and had fun learning the process on how a music video is made.