Music Video analysis
Ryan:
As Good as I Once Was By Toby Keith
Good introduction to the background.
Good connection with the artists other videos.
Lighting and color description not good.
He just said that it stayed the same throughout the video.
Did not mention anything in particular.
Alistair:
This Too Shall Pass By Ok Go
Brief introduction to the artist and their types of music video
Rube Goldberg Machine
Uniqueness of the music video
Interesting information about the video
Explains the color and lighting explained good
Displays a good consistency throughout the video – he explained the main colors of the video
BT:
This Too Shall Pass By Ok Go
Introduction not too good.
Had to start over again.
Did not write and key points or notes down to remind him of things to say.
Kept saying um…
Explained well why he chose the video
Explains pros to this video in comparison to the Rube Goldberg one.
Very good in that he related it to ourselves (levels)
Lighting – good use of natural light
Explained the camera angles and distances fairly well.
Bradley:
Thriller By Michel Jackson
Had some technical difficulties
Good/ok explanation of color and lighting.
Explained colors and why they used it in the video.
Explained the lighting really well
Explanations of camera techniques shaky but explained it fairly well
Editing explanation good and also put in personal point.
Related to Bollywood dancing
Related it to other videos of the time.
Aaron:
Collide By Howie Day
Explains the video context.
Explained use of colors well
Lighting displays the themes of the different parts of the video – explained pretty well
Referred to pictures on screen showing a good variety to different types of shots and distances.
Explained what editing has done and what it can do.
Related it too home videos
Showed examples
Characteristics – explained on a whole and related it to the music video
Chose the main characteristics to explain.
Emily:
Across the Universe – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Talked a bit fast
Explained types of music videos – talked too fast but explained it okay
Explained why the video is both narrative and conceptual music video - good
Explanation of camera techniques good.
Color and lighting explained well – military colors/ dim drab lighting
Editing explained very well
Dylan:
Smooth Criminal By Michel Jackson
Good background of the music video/song
Explained why and style
Explained camera angles within the music video well. – with pictures
Camera distances explained with pictures from video – explained well
Explained why the different distance and angle shots were used
Color explanation was explained well
Lighting explanation good
Camera techniques was explained fairly well
Editing is more old but still good – good explanation
Had his own personal opinion - really good
Nick Tse:
Tui Hou By Jay Chou - Chinese Music Video
Explained MV storyline
Explained type of MV – More narrative approach – no shots of Jay Chou singing.
Explained how color and lighting sets the scene well
Dark colors – Dangerous
Explains color and lighting fairly thoroughly.
Explains why different shots are used and justified why. – Fairly good
Editing – no or little transitions
Editing explained well and also showed more than one example
Editing – in the “Flashbacks”, the color is in B and W, to make it feel like a memory.
Cynthia:
Mukashi kara aru basho - JUJU
Explained “what is a MV”
Gave background information on the MV
Color and lighting explained well
Explained what kind of color and lighting used
Camera techniques (angles and distances) – explained very well – explained the meaning of the flash back movie clips.
Showed examples of different camera techniques.
Characteristic of MV – explained very well and explained the relationship between the actions and the lyrics and music.
Editing – explained fairly well
Georgie:
Rolling in the Deep By Adele
Color and lighting – explained good
Camera angles and techniques explained well
Stated personal opinion.
Editing explained not so well – only explained briefly.
Synchronization explained okay
Transitions – no or little transition
Comparisons with other MV. – very good – compared with more than one.
Nicholas Sung:
Fix You By Coldplay
Background of the MV – explained briefly
Mood, lighting and music – significant relationship – explained very well.
Color and music – combines the mood of the music to the color of the light. – Explained well
Lighting and lyrics – explained good
Camera techniques – explained well
Rule of thirds – explained briefly
Characteristics – explained well – explained narration as well as performance
Editing – explains different cuts, along with synchronization – fairly well
Katherine
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Describes what the music is about and what it symbolizes – well one
Color – describes how colors were used and how they contrast also what atmosphere they show – very well
Colors – Black, white, Red.
Lighting – Transition of light explained well
Silhouetting – explained well
Camera Techniques – showed how different camera techniques and angles affected the audience and how it shows emotion.
Camera angles – Explained very well
Editing – explains how the editing affected the video – very well
Symbolization – explained briefly but very well
Clothing – explained how the clothing affected the video – explained very well
Analogies – Explained very well
Very Good song choice and Very good analyzation of the music video
Charles
21 Guns by Green Day
Clumped together - What are Music Videos? Characteristics and Chosen MV together – rushed through but explained fairly ok.
Lighting – explained different types of lighting – explanation not bad but not great
Color – explained briefly
Distance – Explained well but rushed through
Talked a bit too fast – rushing through
Camera Angles – explained well
Camera Movements explained well – related how his MV is different to the MV we did.
Editing – explained ok – rushed
Presentation could have been put together better.
Beatrice
Can’t nobody by 2NE1
Explained why she chose it
Introduction
Similarities with western MV
Color and lighting – explained well
Camera Distances – explained well
Camera Angles – explained well
Movements – explained briefly but very well
Editing – explained well
Saskia
Firework By Katy Perry
Color – explains how the color sets the mood
Lighting – Natural Light – Explained well
Camera Shots and Angles – Explained Briefly
Camera Movements – Explained okay
Editing – explained well
Characteristics – Explained briefly but very well
Explained her thoughts on the MV and our how are MV should be like it
Dean
Stan By Eminem Featuring Dido
Explained why he chose the MV
Storyline of the MV – Explained ok
Themes – Explained ok-ish
Editing/color/lighting – explained well and fairly thoroughly
Camera Distance Shots – explained how different shots are used to show the environment around the character and how it portrays emotion.
Characteristics – Explained fairly well
Kept no eye contact with the audience, read directly from the script.
A but rushed
Anne
Strawberry Fields Forever – From the movie Across the Universe
Color – explained briefly but not very detailed
Lighting – Explained ok – did not go through much detail
Special effects and Editing – explained well
Characteristics – explained ok – only explained briefly.
Bryce
All of the Lights By Kanye West Featuring Rihanna and Kid CuDi
Color Editing - Black and White, color changing – Explained well
Text Lighting and Color effects – Explained well
Camera Techniques – explained well
Editing/transitions – explained okay
Characteristics – explained well
Overall – Explained everything well but it seemed like he had the information but was struggling on what to say.
Davis
The Killers – A Dust land Fairytale
He explained very well about what characteristics the music video had as well as the meaning of the music video.
He also explained very well about how contrast and lighting were used in the music video.
Camera Shots – explained briefly but well
Explained why he likes it very well.
After everyone was finished presenting (presentations took three lessons to finish) we worked on filming and editing our music video. For our group, i stayed to edit because i was not there at another time when editing (and i had to contribute my part to the editing process), whilst everybody else continues filming the rest of the scenes that needed to be filmed.
The last lesson (the last lesson before easter break), the majority of the groups including ours thought that we had that class to finish up our videos but Ms. Wong did not know that, that was what we thought and was planning on doing a video screening of our music video's. So, ending up, she let us have that lesson to finish and during the lesson, we finished our music video but did not have time to render the videos so one of us had to return at break to finish the rendering.
