After a month and a half of constant editing in Windows Movie Maker i have finally finished editing my music video. The video contains over 200 shot changes and the average time for each clip is under a second, this was partially due to my research into other music videos, and seeing that this is the most popular pitfall for students to fall into, to leave long sprawling shots resulting in a very slow paced video which doesn't match the artistic vibrancy of the music. But if i'm honest it was also that this was what came naturally to me when creating the video, i followed my instincts hugely on what i thought looked effective and worked well, though i do realise that this is due to my subconcious knowledge of music videos, having spent half of my life watching them. The video has been received very well by all i have shown it to, people have particularly commented ont he fast rate of shots, the dual narrative of the story and the band performance, the editing surrounding the vocals( the syncing of the lyrics as well as the slow motion effect) and my general continuity and construction. The only negative comments i have received are that the storyline is relatively hard to follow, this is due to the fact that this video was originally going to be much longer with a prologue and a voiceover explaining the situation, but i altered this due to time restraints and then tried to make the story as simple as possible, taking out any fundimental plot points and leaving a basic frame of story so that i could concentrate more on the bands performance and have the story acting as more of an artistic antithesis to it. I myself am very pleased with how the video has turned out, i was worried that i didn't have enough footage to achieve what i wanted but in the end as a rounded piece i think it looks very professional and fitting to the bands music.
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