Music Video Fourth Draft

This is the fourth draft of my music video. I have made quite a few changes to this draft which I think have improved my music video and made it look more professional.

One of the changes that I have made is that I have now put my candidate name and number etc. at the beginning of my music video so that the examiner knows exactly who I am and what this piece of work is for.

A second change that I have made is that during my shot in which I tilt the camera up and then down in the following shot I have put a quick slide transition in between the two shots to make it flow better as this way you cannot see the change in shots. The slide transition that I used was a quick fade which I think has worked very well in my music video because it links to the two shots together well.

Another change that I have made is that during my first split screen I have tried to match the shot with my male actor in with the one with my female actress in as I was unable to change the quality of this shot to make it better so the way in which I have overcome this is by trying to make the other shot match this shot as much as possible. I have done this by using many different effects on this shot and playing with the colour of the shot to match it as much I can. I think that the shots now look very similar to one another however I am quite disappointed with the quality of the footage but this is something that I can no longer change so I have made it work as best as I possibly can.

During my shots of my actress sat in the corner of a room I noticed that the last shot of this before she starts lip-syncing zoomed in too far on her face so I made this shot in slow motion and cropped down the shot so that it is to a better shot length and I think that this now looks a lot better and more professional.

Plus, on my TV broadcast section I have now included the shot of my broadcaster and cropped this shot down so that it fits inside the TV. Although, I still need to do a lot of work on this shot because the fade overs aren't working at the moment and I haven't found out how to make the TV and broadcast footage zoom in. So in my next draft I am hoping to find out how to do this.

After this broadcast scene finished I thought that the shot of the black screen lasted far too long so I have cropped this down and added in a shot of the TV smashed up to fill up the time that I have just cropped out. Also this now foreshadows what is about to happen in the music video, to give the audience an insight as to what is to come.

The final changes that I have made is at the very end of my video. The first change of this is that I have put a Bad TV Effect over the top of my shot of a close up of the TV to make it seem as if the full music video is just a media concept and that this is shown on TV and that this shot is breaking up. The next change that I made is the slide transition between this and the next shot as I have used a Static slide transition which gives the effect that the TV is about to turn off. This shot is juxtaposed with a black screen with a white glowing line running through the centre of the screen which lasts for a split second as this is a typical feature of what happens when TV's turn off. This then ends with a plain black screen to show that the TV has turned off.

I think that all of these changes have improved my music video quite a lot because it has made my music video flow better and look more professional due to the effects and slide transitions that I have included in it. For my next draft I am going to change the fade overs so that they work a lot better and then I think I will be very pleased with my music video as a whole.