Past students work

To help towards our research we watched some music videos from past students, there were a variety of different videos belonging to different genres of music. The videos varied in level of ability, some clearly better than other, however i think this is down to the amount of time and effort that was put into each of the videos. One of the videos that really stood out was a parody of the famous rock star ‘Elvis Presley’. The group put a lot of effort into the mise-en-scene and costumes that were used, and focused on the performance with a huge amount of lip syncing. However, there were also very low quality video’s, for example the group that created a video to the song ‘You cant hurry love’. They clearly did not spend enough time planning, this is evident through their use of cinematography and location the location they chose. Simple things would have hugely improved the video, the group could have used a better location and been more creative with their use of camera shots and angles. Watching past videos has helped us to differentiate between a good and a bad video, and determine the positive features we could incorporate into our production.