Task Five - Understand the techniques of music videos

Task Five - Understand the techniques of music videos

In this task, I am going to inform about what I understood about editing this video of 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' by Kiki Dee and Elton John. The first minute of the song was edited.

There were many shots that we took for the video, for the whole of the one minute section of the song. It took us about 7 takes or more to get this correct for each type of shot such as the normal shot that has the 2 characters, the close ups; the shot were at the two individuals so it showed the first character recording the one character and the other just so you could see them perform their verse. And lastly, the crane shot, since there are two characters performing with the microphones, using the crane shot will just make the video even more interesting. Which, then leads to my point of, if this video wouldn't have any shot variety then this video would just be boring because there are only two people standing and singing, with one shot all the way through it will just be plain and boring. The camera was angled in front of the character, to catch the both of the characters. Then, it was angled at the left side and the right side of both of the characters to catch individual close ups. 

I directed the actors by telling them by giving more camera looks and enjoy the song by dancing over the music as they are the backup singers to perform their cue. I think that the music really helped the performers really perform in time with the music and it was helpful with the lip-syncing and dance in time with the music. This helps because while editing the music video, the song will just be placed, so I could tell them over the video to just smile more and dance, also everyone sang during the music video so that lip movement matches whats being said on the song which is how we made the performance look realistic. 

Editing this video was really quite tough, the first thing was what footage am I going to begin with and how its going to flow together. The usage of markers was very helpful in the fact that it helps to cut to the music or even a cue for the backup singers part of the song. Below is an example of the green marker to mark the cue on the top of the picture. 

How I lip synced the footage was trial and error, with this it took quite a while to get the lip syncing on point. This helped me cut to the beat and let the video flow really well and using the fade tool really helped to cut to the beat again it just helped the video flow. Using the markers helps you use the tool at the right time also.