Music Video Reflection
‘Ten Different Names’ from POCKETS is the first music video I have made and I still feel quite amazing about what we have done. At the same time, media 2 is my first studio in the university and I have learnt so many from this class.
I used to use Video Studio Pro to edit the video clips, and now I can use Premiere to do all the things I want, of course, except the special effect, which is the weakest part to me and I will learn and practice more in the future.
To be honest, compared with other crew members, I still feel a little unsatisfied to the final cut, some details even some parts we could make better. Like in the beginning of the music video, the ‘ten different names’ words on a black background, I suggested to make the colours inside the words to flow, maybe it is difficult to make and it is still stationary. Especially the blanket green screen part, I think it is fun to use in the music video. After finishing the final cut, I still feel quite regret that have not use these. Because it is a group work, it is important to listen to other people’s idea and opinion. Compared to the pitched idea, we have done mostly, except the inside silhouette effect. It will be better to learn more skills to do this part.
The singer Dan from the band whom we have invited is a very good performer, I have to say the successful of our music video is depends on him and he did really good job! Also the background experiment is another big job for everyone in our group. During few weeks, we all have tried so many and only a few could be used. I have done the watercolour and milk mixture first, and it is too difficult for one person to do both mixing and shooting, but Nikki has done well with her friend. The smoke video footage I shot actually is for the inside silhouette effect, just like the Taylor Swift’ music video ‘Style’. Obviously, the smoke video footage is not using by this way.
Our music video is not like other groups which have plots in, so it is much more difficult to figure out the content, only using the zoom in and zoom out will be boring after seeing more than twice, therefore, we have created other more interesting possibilities, like making the silhouette passing around the frame and put more than one silhouette to produce the crazy atmosphere. We have spent so many time in testing these effects. Another hard thing for us to do is to match the mouth shape just on the right beat, I feel exhausted during doing that part.
Finally, I think I am lucky to work with my group members and the only and the most important thing is we all had fun in editing and shooting, and also thank Rohan for teaching me well.