Reflection
Today, we added a title screen and credits to our minute-long movie, before exporting the movie to the desktop and putting into our public folder for Ms. Wong to see.
After this, we learned about music videos by watching and researching the techniques used in them. From my observation of various music videos, I found some common techniques used to achieve certain effects. Most videos had fast transitions, cutting to the next scene without needing to waste time with fancy fade-in methods. Music videos also typically contain a story line or plot of some sort, which is obviously closely related to the lyrics of the song. The scenes themselves are always related to the lyrics in some way, and events often coincide with specific beats or melodic components of the song. Also included a lot are dance scenes, or a scene which shows the artist singing or lip-syncing the song.
However, some music videos have distinct differences. Indian Bollywood-style songs always involve a group of people dancing in unison. Some Asian music videos follow the same type of format too. Many music videos also incorporate some form of emotional content, but certain kinds of music do not have this, such as some rock music. In many Western videos, there are far more cuts and shorter takes than in Asian/Bollywood videos.
After researching music videos, we had to review some of our classmates' videos:
First film, Aaron: Good use of audio, though the music is from Inception. The camera angles used were effective. Zoom and close-up shots were very good.
Second film, "Grades and Pressure", Charles: Very good acting. Good closeup shots.
Third film, "Do You Want Some?", Anne and Cynthia: Bad transitioning. Camera angles were good, but distances were quite bad.
Fourth, "We Only Work for Our Parents", Alastair: Nice acting, mediums shots good.
Fifth, Georgie/Katherine: Good audio use, camera angles and distances were very good.
Sixth, "Something": Black and white film effect was very good, camera distances and movement was good too.
Seventh, "Sex on the Beach", Bradley, Dean: Camera angles and distances was very effective. Storyline was slightly random.
Eighth, "Something", BT and Davis: Black and white film effect was very good, while the camera movements and the distances were very effective too.
Evaluation
I think I worked quite well today. Nic Tse and I finished our minute-long video in about 10 minutes, which was good. We also managed to do some quick research on music videos and evaluate our peers' videos. Overall, we achieved what was required of us in the time period given.
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