Practice music video

Last year in our groups we were set the task of making a music video displaying an element of change. As this was only a practice to give us an idea of what it would be like this year we were only given a 2 weeks to film and edit it. My group, consisting of Hannah, Dan, Lucy, Louise and myself, chose to make our video to the song 'She moves in her own way' by the Kooks. We achieved an element of change throughout the video by creating a 'Geek to Beauty' situation where a once bulled girl transforms into a beauty that is desired by all the boys at school. I feel that by completing this task we have gained valuable experience in the filming and editing required in making a music video. Considering it was only a practice i feel that as a group we put in great effort however i do feel that this year our standard will need to be improved vastly.

Practise Music Video from Lucy Simonds on Vimeo.

Having now had more research and experience with music videos, looking back at our video I can clearly identify both negative and positive points. Below, are screen shots of the video and I have fully described the negatives and positives of each and any improvements we would make if were to film this again.



This shot is near the beginning of the video. The main character is currently leaving the classroom as she is being bullied. A negative with this is the framing. At the time of filming we didn't realise that the sandals on the desk were visible. If we were to do this now, we would be thinking about the framing of the shots throughout at all times. Furthermore I have realised that we didn't concentrate on the actresses clothing very well because in this shot you can also notice that she isn't actually wearing any footwear, which realistically a girl would be if at school.






This shot follows on from the previous one. A negative with this one is that we can see another student and Louise who was filming at the time, in the reflection of the glass. We didn't think about this at the time. If we were to do it now we would have to find solution, maybe it was due to the light coming through the window. However, if it wasn't for seeing the reflection of Louise with the camera, and we only saw Jack, the other student, it wouldn't have been a problem as it would be a more realistic school setting.
















Here is a shot of the two girls running up the stairs. To do this we have short cuts from different angles which I feel looks very effective. However, the downside to
this is that we filmed it over two days and I (the geek) am wearing earrings here whereas the shots before I'm not. This is something that we would be more aware of in our filming this year.





















Here is a shot that I feel is a positive of our video. Here we have used a technique called an Ellipsis. An ellipsis is when time changes between shots however you don't physically see the change, it is just evident through the different shots. We have used it here to show the girl going into the bathroom dressed unfashionably and then appearing again in different clothing. Although we don't actually see her changing her clothes and the time is quicker than it would be realistically, we still are aware of what she has done.










We didn't realise this at the time of filming, we only noticed when we watched the completed video back but our friend Zara can be seen using the computer in the reflection in the mirror. If this was part of the video then it would be fine but the fact that she doesn't appear in the video at all and isn't supposed to shows how inexperienced we were. However i don think that it is too obvious that she wasn't supposed to be there, nut this is going to be a priority of ours when filming our music video this year.