new music video using live concert footage

Okay, I've watched your video twice and a few things stand out for me:

1) The audio appears to be off sync with the video. Having made a few music videos from live footage myself, I can understand how this happens. This is a hard one to get arround when you are mixing live footage and studio recordings. The two rarely if ever match up perfectly. However, you have chosen to use many closeups of the lead singer where this mis-match is particularly evident.

2) I liked your use of color fades at the beginning. It is a non-distracting transition that, when used properly, can really be utilized to convey a lot of things. However, in this case, I probably would have held the black in between a little less and faded to and from black a little more slowly. In the end these transitions would have lasted about the same amount of time, but would have been a little less jarring.

3) Pure lack of angles. You keep taking many of the same angles over and over. I can't entirely blame this on the editing though, as this may simply be caused by a lack of source footage. Unfortunately, when you are editing live video, you are pretty much at the mercy of what you are given. However, it wasn't until about half way through that we saw the drummer for the first time. All too often in music videos the drummer is that forgotten guy in the back. There were some big cymbal hits early in the song that you could have fit him into...anything to get us drummers a little more camera time.

4) Pacing. You held some shots for what seemed forever, and then would switch to another shot for what seemed like a blink of an eye. When you have a beat playing in the background, as you do in a music video, you should always try to edit to it. This helps the video and audio flow together much more smoothly. Hitchcock used a metronome when he edited, always cutting to the beat. With a music video, this is essential.

Otherwise though, not too bad. There was nothing that really jumped at me, causing me to jump up on my desk and scream at the screen. And this was certainly better than some of the editing I have seen from my video production students.

Stick with the editing, it is a true art. And just like any other art, you have to keep working at it to get better.
 
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