Previous Students music video

This music video was added to youtube in 2009 and is an example of a previous students A2 media coursework. They did 'Sun Is Shining' by The Feeling. I decided to analyse this one in particular as they too did a band, which is what we will be doing.

Strengths:

- They have a nice sepia tone running throughout it which I think works well with their settings (a field) and also reflects the lyrics 'sun is shining' (Goodwin 6) as it does make it look warm and summer like.

- The outfits for the band were well put together and also shows the did some research on The Feeling, as they too wear suits in a field in their music video "Join with us".

- Technically they have used some advance techniques in the way they have lots of frames within frames (E.g- The newspaper with shots within the frame).

- They have a good range of camera angles which are cut and flow into the next shot well.

Weaknesses:

- The video is quite fuzzy in places. Im not sure whether this is due to the quality of youtube or because the fuzzy-ness has been created by the use of the sepia tone. Its also quite obviously fuzzy with the frame within frame shots. This is something we will have to be careful with in making our own music video. Losing quality will make the overall video look worse, therefore we will be careful when editing colours and shots.

-They have done a performance and narrative based music video, however the story line's not particularly clear.

Overall, when watching the video, the changes I personally would have made, would be to have the band members miming more. I think this would show more evidence of being able to link the music in time to the footage. I also would have had band members playing some instruments to, again , show these abilities. Therefore will add these types of elements in our music video to show our ability in terms of editing.