Viewing pervious student work cannot only inspire us with ideas to use in our own production, but also set us a standard to which we want our work to reach. Here is a video from 2006 and this is the music video that my Brother produced when he was in my very same position 5 years ago. After downloading the Hand-break application onto my Mac I have managed to burn this video from a DVD and have now uploaded it to YouTube.
This video is in many ways similar to what we hope to achieve. It also is a very fast paced song with lots of drum beats and guitar riffs. This video works to the song in the way that it is cleverly edited to the effect that the music creates. The bar location which is seen in this video was completely structured for the sake of the music video alone, with amazing attention to detail this video really shows use how much we can achieve in our production.
In particular I enjoy this video because of the precise and fine editing, for example the fast and slow effects that are used to great effect and the reference to the link between the audio and the visuals, for example when we see him (Tom) falling over in the streets to the lyrics, "I'm heading to crashland" at 1:51.
Some of the camera shots that are in this video are very creative, in the opening scene we have Tom in bed when gets up and leaves the room there is a clever transition of the shot were he walks into the camera and is then followed from behind. I think this is a very effective shot and unique which works well and I think we can use something similar to this in our production. Another shot I personally like is at 2:52 were the bottle is slid into the camera shot and creates a powerful straight cut which is timed excellently with the audio.
When filming and editing we will bear in mind to refer back to previous student work to adapt ideas from past successes.
Ian
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