Past Music Video Ranking/Review

In class we where shown music videos made by the past years of the school and were then asked to rank them in order of best to worst.
when first looking at the music videos we put them in the order of:
  

     1.     13A3 Nine 2 Five

     2.     12A2 Life Happens 

     3.     13B6 Ike and Tina

     4.     13E6 Go In, Go Hard

     5.     13E9 Today I Cried

     6.     13134 Lost

     7.     13E4 If You Wanna

     8.     13B3 What We Started

     9.     13E7 12 Rounds

    10.    13A1 Sparks Fly

    11.    13B1 Rewind

From doing this  I learned a lot about music videos. I learnt what to do and what not to do to make the best video.I found the video for Nine 2 Five was the best out of these videos. It was very well thought out and planned, you could tell alot of thought had gone into what they was going to do to make everything work, the lips were in sync and they cut in time to the music. They aslo had a vairety of loactions, which keeps it interetsing than justv haveing one location which bores the viewer. I found the video for Rewind was the worst, the lips were not in sync to the music, they attempted using a narrative in the video, but it was very confusing and unclear, the video didnt work with the lyrics and didnt make sense.

 

I have learnt that when making my music video,

 

I should make sure the lip sync is perfect as i canm all the way through the video. To make this happens and works effectively I will use the same version of the track when filming as well as when I'm editing. 

 

Have lots of different locations. This keeps video interesting and the viewer engaged.

 

Make sure I cut the footage in time with the music. To avaid this I will look at the synaesthesia of the music, and cut at the high notes or the low notes.

 

Use a variety of shots from different angles. When going on a shoot I will take more than one camera, so that I have a lot of interesting footage to work with when it comes to editing.

 

I found that with some of the videos from perious years some of the actors were very lifeless and awkward in front of a camera this changed the feeling and the look of the video completely. So when it comes to choosing who's going to perform in my music video, I'll be sure to choose someone who's confident performing in front of a camera top get the best shots and so the music video doesnt feel lifeless.

 

I will also leave pleanty of time for re-shoots.so that if we need to do pick ups a d re film parts we have plenty of time, this will allow us to try and make thye video the best we can and not have anmy parts that dont match within the music video.