Student Music Videos

Looking at other student works helps with our own imagery and what we can realistically do

This video got full marks and an A grade. It was shot with a Canon 5d Mark II (a very expensive camera) and edited using final cut. The narrative is very easy to follow and the lighting is very consistent. The artistic shots are really creative and are easy to make such as something we can do. The costumes are very simplistic and it seems like we could re-create something like this without spending a lot of money. The video is really well done and executed and the editing is really fantastic, the long shots give a good idea and shows how effective it can be. It's also clear when they use the handicam that it can be effective during a fight scene. They use a lot of amazing techniques to capture the footage which overall makes a really creative and unique music video.

This is a really good performance based video shot in a greenscreen room, This shows how effective it can be to have different things going on whilst staying in the same location - this minimizes the locations we would have to go to. There isn't a narrative and it's more of the band messing about - this is popular for an indie pop video (we're doing indie rock) and therefore could not be used for our video however it's really interesting the timing they cut it. The closeups of the band is a good idea as it's done across all genres. It brings the audience closer to the band. 

This video is really good for showing intertextual references. They refer to alice in wonderland throughout and use clips from the film. It fits in with the song as the film is fairly crazy and it's singing about being complicated. The  editing such as 1:16 is really creative and a good effect that could be used for our video as well. The lighting doesn't change too much and they again film in the same room throughout apart from a few scenes. Throughout most the performances shown there has not really been no shot of someone singing/the artist. I think for our product we need to focus on being performance based with a slight narrative as it gives us more to work with and makes it realistically easier for us to shoot.