Music Video Intro - What We Learnt

As with all groups, the one minute music video we created was practice for our full music video, which we will create next term.

This practice was very beneficial. We learnt a lot on both the editing and filming side, as well as coming up with ideas which can be built upon for the full music video. The ideas we had for the one minute video, which due to a lack of time could not be put in, can and will be used for our full music video when we create it.

Looking back at our video, the thing that stands out the most is the number of fades. They somewhat mask what is otherwise a very well-edited (edited by Tom Phipps) piece. In the future, problems like this can be avoided by having a much clearer plan before we begin filming, which will in turn make the editing much easier as we will have the clips we need when it comes to the editing. Storyboards are also important, as they will make it much clearer what we need to do when we have the camera in our hands.

In fairness to our efforts for this piece, we would have planned in much more detail had we had the time. We only had an hour to shoot our music video, which meant it looked slightly more rugged than we had hoped due to us not having the time to perfect the shots. We also only had two lessons to edit the video, which again made it slightly more rushed. However, we knew that this project was a quick one and in hindsight should probably have planned what to do with our time slightly better - a lesson which we can take with us to the final music video, which we will have much more time to create.

The thing that I am most satisfied with about our music video is the potential it has. The ingredients it has are, in my opinion, very good. And while it may seem a bit rough-round-the-edges, it had the potential to be very very good. I have every faith that our final video will realise the potential, now we have learnt from minor mistakes with the one minute version. The ideas which were cut due to a lack of time (Tom Phipps and Emile Cole air drumming/guitaring etc.) will not have to be cut from the final vide.

Essentially, the one minute video was an interesting learning curve which was nothing but beneficial for our group. Any mistakes we made were minor and easily avoidable for next time and the ideas we came up with could be made into a very, very good music video when we have the time to utilise them in our full music video.

Intro Music Video.

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What We Are Doing Today

Today marks something of a transitional stage for our group. Instead of doing any editing or filming, we are today making storyboards for our upcoming music video one minute extract. Aside from that, we may scout some potential locations to film the video at.

We will later update this post with pictures of our storyboard. If we take them, we will also include shots we take from our location scouting.

EDIT 1:

Here are the photos from our location scouting. Emile Cole and Michael "Minty" Kendall went out to look for places where we could record. This is what we came up with on first viewing.