Music Video Evaluation
Overall, am I happy with my submission, no. Did I challenge myself, yes. Did I try my utmost, I think I did, but it still doesn’t feel like enough.
Want Went Well:
- First time
This was my first time undertaking a production on this scale. It was definitley a massive jump from making a 30-second video. There was a lot more pre-production to be done, especially in the story-boarding department.
- Challenged myself
I feel that I have definitely challenged myself and this, in turn, has taught me a lot about Adobe Premiere. It was a bit of mental headache to work out when the candles would ignite, when they would flicker etc.
- More Organised
This task has taught me a lot about the vast organisational skills that are needed for a video production. Separating A & B Roll, shot lists, how to lay out Premiere etc.
The top is the initial timeline and the one underneath was the one that I did when the idea was tought out in my head. Yes, it could be even more organised but I feel it definitely progressed from the initial one.
- Software
Not only did I learn a lot about Premiere, but I also learned just how much-moving image manipulation can be done in Photoshop.
- My mood during this project
I’ll hold my hand up and admit, I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy this project at all when you consider everything that has been going on this year, I thought I’d be praying for it to be over, I guess I still am to a certain extent, but in a funny way I’ve actually enjoyed this brief and I really didn’t expect to say that
- Audio
I learnt a new skill, which is audio syncing. Audio is a skill that photographers are repeatedly been asked to be good at.
- Critiscm
This is definitely the project where I have received the most criticism. It was very honest and constructive and it really made push myself to try and produce good work.
- Running out of time
My final timeline actually came out of a massive panic. When I had a tutorial with Matt on Tuesday, he wanted me to add black video clips to flicker the candles on and off. With the timeline I had, the organisation was so poor that it would’ve been a very tough task. So I essentially blew my timeline up and started again from scratch. I feel this has led to a better video, just a shame it still doesn’t appeal to me.
Even Better If:
- The End Product
As mentioned, I’m not happy at all with my end product. After doing nine edits, I still wasn’t to find a combination that I’m happy with. In the final edit, I’ve got one which works well but I feel it could work a lot better if I had more time and a lot more footage/locations to play with.
- More Research
I think my initial research was very weak, I think I should’ve done a lot more and this would’ve helped me come up with a better idea
- Continuity
There are a few continuity errors in the B Roll. There are some shots where Josie has her sunglasses on her head and then in the next shot she doesn’t, or her phone miraculously appears out of nowhere on the table. Of course, if I left more time to record, this hopefully would not have happened.
- On Paper, But on Film?
In the pre-production stage, my concept did actually sound pretty intriguing. But then again things always sound great on paper. But on film, it was very boring. Another case of over-promising and under-delivering from myself.
- Ten Edits
I think this is more of a negative than a positive. I had to do nine edits before I got a video that I had the slightest bit of confidence in.
- Should’ve shot more
Even though I’m very happy with the shot I used of Hayden singing, I think I should’ve shot a lot more as I only got four shots of him and it could’ve very easily backfired down the line
- Weekly Journals
I wasn’t able to keep up with the weekly journals for this task. I managed to do one for the first and second week, however, it started to feel like I was repeating myself with the blog posts I was writing in the first place.