A2 Media - Preliminary Project

We finished the prelininary project creating a 1minute music video for the song raining blood by slayer. From this small task we have learned many things, one of these being to shoot from alot more angles, in out actual shoot we thought we had covered alot of angles using our experience from past projects, however we found upon reviewing the footage that we had not included a large enough variety of shots in the video, this being because it is the first music video we have created and so when we do our final project we now know to include a much wider range of shots in a music video than would be required for a normal video. Not only this but we also learned the importance of matching up the video to the music, this was not particulary done well when we did this video certain parts were synced up but then there were other parts of which didnt seem to fit with the track in anyway and so we know when we come to our final project to use footage of the band playing the actual song in the video, in this way it would ensure that we would be able to accurately and professionally be able to sync the music with the video. we now know how important the syncronization of music to video can be in improving the asthetics of the video and how professional it looks in general. Also we realised the setting in which we had choosen for our video was not actually suitable for what was happeneing in the video, being that it seemed like a live performance video, when there were in actual fact no shots of reaction from the audience which made it ultimately difficult to ulitmately depict a performance by the band. Futhermore upon futher study we realised during the original video there was a shot in the background that wasd in a constant motion and the video would be constantly referring back to this elongated shot which would withhold a motif within the video. Finally we have to come to the conclusion that for the video the inclusion of a narrative could be vital. In the video, the live perfomance can obviously not be replicated as we do not posses the means to do so, but we can recreate some sort of narrative to the video and for the song we choose, in order to do this for the fianl project we will ahve to study in depth the song and see what connotations we can gather from it and from that we can come to a conclusion of what sort of narrative would be appropriate for the song and moreover the video. As from suggestions we have heard we think it would be best to include a narrative over the band the playing so while jumping back to the band playing the song, we would also jump to the narrative that was behind the video in essence. However not all of our video was so bad, there were a few aspects of the video that were very comparable to other metal videos and the camera angles we used and the syncronization of the music to the video, an example of this being at the beginnning of the video where we had the drum beats perfectly synced up the the music itself and it looked really good and very effective. Also our use of lighting was something else that proved to look very qell done in the exported product, particulary the use of the red lighting at particular points making the video directly related to the song "raining blood"  the obvious relation to blood depicted from the red.