When Will I Be Loved – Final Edit Short Commentary/Evaluation
In the final video, I believe the camera work is done very well. The shots are held steady where appropriate. For example where Ally is walking alone at the end of the video, the high angle shot is steady with the use of editing and the stabalisation tool. We have also used varied camera angles such as mid shots, long shots, extreme close ups, over the shoulder shots and many more. I also believe we have used the correct amount of detail in the music video – for example the background of Ally’s (main character) phone is of him and Shannon – (lead girl). We got rid of previous unwanted material such as catching in litterbins in the frame of the shot.
We used various shot distances. For example there are close ups of Ally playing the guitar and of Ally lip-syncing. However there are long shots of Ally walking away down the road and wide angle aerial shots of Ally walking in the park.
The mise en scene of the final version is good. The clothes were suitable for the music video and the theme of separation, the genre of music and the audience that we were targeting. The way that nothing is too extravagant follows the techniques that we used in the rough cut of the video – in which we found a few things that could have been better that we chose to change.
The editing in the final video is tight. There is a lot more lip-syncing involved, which meant that we had to spend a lot more time editing the music video. In addition we also managed to fix the syncing of Ally playing the guitar at the beginning – which was previously out of sync in the rough edit.
When editing the final video, we used a lot more of the newer scenes that we went out and filmed again. We did this because we felt that we needed more material to make the video interesting and keep the audience engaged. Also after receiving audience feedback, we went back to film more scenes – (such as Shannon throwing the phone down) to make the narrative clearer. The newer scenes made a clear separation between the flashbacks and what was happening in the present in the video. In addition to this, we ended the video with Ally walking away on his own – even after the song finishes. This leaves the audience on a cliffhanger – this also relates to the audio, where Erick Baker does not finish his last line (“When Will I Be Loved”) and misses out the “Loved” part. This shows uncertainty about his future – something that we tried to recreate with our music video.
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