Wow, have twelve weeks really gone that fast? No, they haven’t, it was a synthesised six week course. But still, it doesn’t seem like all that long ago that I rocked up to day one of the Belgian Egg Hunt (aka. Music Video 101, aka. Rohan’s crazy fun-times, aka. ‘It’s summer school!’) knowing nothing about music video. And now I know everything! Jokes, jokes, I’m not even close. But I have learnt a lot, and while I’ll do my final reflection on our music video at the end of the week, for the moment I’ll do a rundown on the most important things I’ve learnt over this summer semester:

1. The story of Ian Curtis and Joy Division is really sad, but makes for a really good film
2. Mishearing lyrics can lead to awesome egg-themed videos
3. Using small-budget items such as lego doesn’t mean your video has to suck
4. In the case of Bjork + robot love, two wrongs do make a right
5. Miley Cyrus may in fact be a feminist, but black women still can’t catch a break in the music video industry
6. Unless they’re Beyonce
7. Mumford and Sons do a great self-parody
8. Brunswick is a good setting for a music video
9. Pitching a music video concept is hard
10. “It’s summer school” is a valid excuse for anything
11. Colour grade = fix for everything
12. Shooting in slow motion is very popular, but also hard
13. Editing a music video is also hard
14. But rewarding J