Transition Music Video

Transition Music Video 

During transition at college we created a music video.  This helped us to understand the three basic video structures: Performance, Narrative and Concept (Lynch 1984).
This task also helped us to get to grips with understanding the equipment and software, to develop our time management and teamwork skills and it also gave us an insight into the things we'd need to consider for our final music video.

We kept with the theme of 'Club Tropicana' with out mise-en-scene and opted for holiday themed outfits, a bright background and holiday style drinks and this is in keeping with the genre of the song and also the time period the song was set in, although we did modernise it slightly

During editing, we were all inspired by Adele's 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' with the way that Patrick Daughters directed this video so that there'd be an overlap of visuals.  It works beautifully and creates a visually interesting piece.

Although the background is vastly different comparing her plain black screen to our colourful striped background, there are a lot of similarities in terms of movement and editing, and like Adele's video, I wanted the main singer (myself) to be doing the same sort of movements throughout the song so that in editing, the shots would compliment each other 

This transition task was incredibly useful as it has enabled me to learn from my mistakes early on instead of making basic errors during the making of the final music video, in turn, saving me valuable production time.

Aspects that I will carry forward and use in the final music video:

• As someone who is quite shy, this task brought my confidence up in front of the camera which will help when i'm directing others in my music video as i'll be able to show instead of  tell them what I want doing
• This task also helped me to learn the software which I picked up quite quickly after practising with it at home.  I learnt how to overlay clips and how to change the transparency of each layer 

Aspects that I have learnt from and have adapted for the final music video:

• Time management was a major issue for us.  There were four of us in the group, and due to illness and other factors, some people were absent on the days of filming so instead of having plenty of time to film, watch, and then re-film any parts that weren't up to scratch, we had to film it all in one sitting which meant lots of different takes and last minute organisation to ensure we actually had a finished article.  This also meant we had less time to edit in lesson time which means I needed to put in lots of extra time at home to get it completed.
  All things considered i'm proud of what we achieved, but this task highlighted how important time management and organisation is, and also how much a director relies on the people involved in the making of their video and that I need to carefully consider who I involve, making sure I can rely on them to turn up on time and follow my direction