Blog Reflection - Week 2

 What Have I been doing this week?

This week we created a particular scene from different types of music videos to help us give a sense of what we are capable of making and what we can visually do with the equipment and what types of themes or styles that we want to include into our final media product. Firstly we wanted to include to have a abstract style and theme for our music video as we believed that this would be a coll theme to explore and this also allows us to represent out technical skills through the use of camerawork, editing/ special effects, we also wanted to follow the types of narratives that some rap music videos have such as Kendrick Lamar or purple ape these music videos have a heavy focus of visually appealing or surreal shots and that's why we wanted to include such styles into our our music video, we also learn t the types of conventions that these music videos have such as surreal, performance and etc and this allows us to create much more diversity into our final product. This can be seen in our planning of our music video such as the Shooting script.


How does this impact you?


Overall this does enable us to improve our technical skills especially when compared to last year as we only used Non HD flip cams and Final cut Pro X, while this year we was able to use Adobe after effects and primiere pro which allowed us to do special effects much better than Final cut pro, it also allowed us to apply theory to the music video through the visuals which gives us a better understanding of the common themes in music videos. It also helps my partner who is less experienced at editing understand and become better at understanding how the software and DSLR's work such as the Aperture and ISO and how they all affect the quality and final image. This was a huge improvement over last year and makes our final work look much more professional and a higher stand because of it.