In todays lesson we watched previous students Music Videos, analysed them and marked them against the marking criteria and levelled them either level 1, 2, 3 or 4.
The first video we watched was called 'Stuck' by Canopy Climbers.
We marked this music video a low/mid level 4/. There were lots of elements of this music video that stood out and definitely reflected level 4 criteria. The lighting throughout the song was very dull which mirrored the atmosphere created by the song. Throughout the music video the camera work was excellent and looked professional, there was no shakiness and there were a variety of different camera angles. However, as a class, we discussed that the video doesn't match the genre of the song. Throughout the video there were fighting scenes and we thought that it gave an aggressive image of the song whereas the actually music suggested it was a bit calmer than what was shown. Also, occasionally we thought that there was too much going on in the video and that it appeared to be too busy and was constantly cutting and changing to different scenes when in some cases, less is more.
The second video we watched was 'Insomnia'.
We gave this a level 3.
Lots of repeated shots, such as the time lapse of the clouds.