Frame by Frame

Before doing my full music video I did a preliminary task to gain a bit more experience in filming a music video and editing it. Above shows the finished edit of Miley Cyrus's song '7 Things.' 

What went well ?

-All of the props and costumes we needed to copy from the original video were things we already had from home.
-The background of the video (grey screen) was easy to find, we used a photography studio we found in our college.
-From an editing point of view the continuity is quite sharp, the clips all seem to run smoothly one after the other to give it a professional look.
-In the original video it was all shot in the same location, so we managed to do all our filming quite quickly in the same place.
-I think the soft lighting works well as it doesn't look too harsh and is more airbrushed and clean like how the lighting in a music video looks.

What would I improve for next time?

-The lip syncing is a little bit off time in some parts of my video. To improve this next time I think it would have been better to actually sing the part of the song and then mute the clip in editing to make sure the movements of the mouth are in time and they look more realistic.
-Include either clips from the original video of the band playing or film my own so that it is even more like the original video and gives the audience something else to look at.

 
 
Below shows screen shots comparing the original Miley Cyrus video and my re-make.

The lighting used in the Miley Cyrus video is quite simple, it looks like it was filmed in a studio with soft lighting to highlight areas of people's faces. The lighting is quite flattering and plain. As you can see in the screen shots below we tried to copy this grey background with soft lighting in our studio. It did work well but I think we should have used more soft lighting around the face of the person singing to highlight their face and almost airbrush it, like in the Miley Cyrus video.


We also tried using similar props to the original video to match the look in the Miley Cyrus one. This include a rose, teddies, a mobile phone and a snow globe.