Negatives of filming a music video so far…
- andrews012k
- Oct 7, 2014
- 2 min read
Filming a music video and then editing a music video can be very difficult and frustrating, through syncing the song to match the video and trying to edit it to fit perfectly with the time of the music video don’t that’s not just the full length but for certain verses or change in beats.
When filming the music video its very difficult to known if you have enough footage not just for the whole song but for certain scenes and to fit full verses and then switch smoothly to the next verse or chorus. The shots can be too short that it’s not clear what’s going on and it can’t be too long otherwise it cannot suit the song. This make very difficult in filming the way I got around this was filming as much footage as possible so I have lots to work with, even if that means filming the same thing but in three different camera angles, this means I don’t have limited footage.
Another difficulty in filming a music video is trying to get the same emotion in the video that goes with the song for example a director who want a music video to look happy and perfect for Shake It Off by Taylor Swift, but with my music video it needs to be dark and has to give a particular feeling to the audience. Presenting darkness and sadness in a song that is fast (In the rapping parts.) makes it difficult to get the correct emotion across.
A music video can sometime have a narrative instead of all singing and dancing. Having a narrative is very difficult to tell if the song is short or the song stats fast from the start. Like an advert you need to keep the audience interested in your music video and have to make the narrative clear. The story cannot go into too much detail, as you will run out of time in telling the story in the limited amount of time. Writing a script was very difficult, as I had to try and make a story that could be said in roughly 5 minutes. The way I did this was by splitting the song up and following it lyric by lyric and uses that to come up with a song.
In conclusion, a music video is very hard to make which can only made easier through careful planning and patience. If done it can look great however so many things can go wrong with making a music video and the smallest detail could ruin the whole video.
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