Evaluation

In my music video most things went according to plan, although some things I wanted to do weren’t really practical or didn’t work out the way I wanted it to. For example I wanted to have a car drive past with one of my actors in but they couldn’t drive, and I couldn’t find anyone else who would do it for me. Therefore I had to give up on this idea. If I had done this again I would have checked if anyone could drive for me and then decide on my plans after knowing, or just check way before I started filming. Another thing was to have both of the actor’s faces kind of blurred together, but when I done this it looked rather odd and I then decided against it. Once more if I were to do this again I would have practised on Final Cut first to see what this effect looked like before I said I would do it.

Something else that didn’t go right was some of the lip syncing, because my actors weren’t singing out loud it was hard to tell what part of the song they were doing. I tried to match it to the song but they were either singing too fast or too slow, I attempted slowing them up or down but sometimes it was still out. Something I would do to improve this would be to have the music playing in the background all the time opposed to just sometimes, and to have the actors actually singing along so I knew which part they were always meant to be singing. Doing this would have also saved me time.

On the good side though I am very happy with some of the things that turned out right, like when I had put inserts into my video when I was highlighting the fact that it was just a dream. I wanted it to be in a sepia effect and I thought this turned out well, I felt that this made the inserts look dreamlike. I also slowed these bits down which helped in creating the dreaming illusion. When the video clips suddenly went back to normal colours I felt that this helped the audience to understand that the actors were reliving their dreams and memories with each other.

I also thought that my match on actions went well because a lot of things that were sung I managed to relate to something that was happening. Like “I was thinking about you, thinking about me, thinking about us,” I showed clips of them in separate shots and then together for “us.” Also when “I was at the top and now it’s like I’m in the basement” I had the male actor walking down the stairs. “And now I’m wishing that you’d pick up the phone,” my female actress is dialling his number. I feel happy with these because it helps the audience relate to the song being played.

Over all I am happy with my music video because I accomplished most of what I wanted to do. It would have been nice if it had gone perfectly to my plan but some things weren’t possible.