Feedback on my music video rough cut please?

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RedSpectrumPictures

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I am making a music video in a group at college for a media studies project. We were given the song to make the video to. I have attached the rough cut of our music video to this thread, would be great to get some feedback on the edit please. As a group we were rushed to get the rough cut produced, so we are aware of the problems. In general, what do you all think of the cinematography, editing style, lighting, framing, shot types etc..
 
I dont know everything but i know this:

(moving) pictures need color schemes.

you dont have too much clashing color (happy accident) which is good but you dont have any nice color schemes going on either. zzzzzzzz plain white light is a common mistake in low budget video, my opinion

If it was me id tint the outdoor footage warm (yellow or orange or yellow-orange) to pretend to be sunlight, or blue to pretend to be early morning mist, i dunno.. and also play with the saturation and color of the club footage

needs color grading basically. do ---something-- to it
 
RedSpectrumPictures said:

I am making a music video in a group at college for a media studies project. We were given the song to make the video to. I have attached the rough cut of our music video to this thread, would be great to get some feedback on the edit please. As a group we were rushed to get the rough cut produced, so we are aware of the problems. In general, what do you all think of the cinematography, editing style, lighting, framing, shot types etc..
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I can stand more unsteady cam than the Wife... but this was too much for me.

Many of the cuts seemed pretty 'unmotivated', and did not have any sort of 'matching' at all.
 
Thanks, colour correction is something we are currently working on. I think we are going to use a magic bullet looks software to correct all of the colours.
Also I agree with the editing, we were rushed to get this rough edit, hopefully we can sort out the 'unmotivated' cuts.

Thanks for the feedback so far guys, would be great to get some more
 
There's this amazing new invention called a "tripod" that would have helped your production a lot. Ask around -- I'm sure someone in your school has heard of it.

- Greg
 
Greg Smith said:
There's this amazing new invention called a "tripod" that would have helped your production a lot. Ask around -- I'm sure someone in your school has heard of it.

- Greg
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I'm not sure you need to be like that Greg. We attempted to go handheld, as too much tripod in a music video can make it boring. Obviously you can have your own opinion, but why would we want to use a tripod for tracking shots? we were just limited with equipment, didn't have a steadicam or anything.
 
RedSpectrumPictures said:
I'm not sure you need to be like that Greg. We attempted to go handheld, as too much tripod in a music video can make it boring. Obviously you can have your own opinion, but why would we want to use a tripod for tracking shots? we were just limited with equipment, didn't have a steadicam or anything.
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I've made a DIY 'steady-ish' cam rig from my monopole... Handheld can work... but the motion of your video was to me excessive.

For a short film I did two months ago, we used a combo of a hand palette dolly to do a 'tracking' shot. Since you are shooting 'MOS', and lipsyncing the music, the 'dolly noise' would not be any problem at all. I did have my trusty wheelchair on hand just in case. But I found the palette dolly at the location and used that.

Also, I practice a lot with 'handheld' moves, tracking, lifts and the like to smooth out the motion... But even then I'd probably use some of the tracker features of After Effects to minimize jumpy/discontinuous motions.

As a 'still' photographer I didn't have to do any 'tracking' but did need on occasion to shoot handheld as low as 1/8 second... sometimes I'd get 1/4 second as well... with minimal blur...
 
I think handheld is fine for a music vdeo, is it not?

you can get some "steadicamish" looking shots handheld, you just gotta try to keep it steadier thats all

anyways color --correcting-- means getting rid of unusual color casts, increasing contrast, etc to make your footage look right

color --grading-- is giving it a specific look

you correct then grade

shoot throw a magic bullets preset over it ("filmic warm"for example) and youll be better off than you are now as far as it having a look and a color scheme
 
Most of the stuff is either overexposed or underexposed. Compositions are everywhere (even if you're doing shaky, handheld stuff, you have to remember composition). And since it's in color, work on them, please! I personally believe that no grading will save a bad shoot. It will just look graded. The key is pre-planning. Create a colorpalette with four or five colours and stick to it. Anyways, these are just my thoughts. Hope you had fine while doing it! That's what matters the most, right?
 
I think you will get much more feedback on all aspects of your video over at the user films section. That way you get more comments about directing choices, edit choices, etc. I shall move this thread for you.

-ryan
 
Thanks Ryan, I would have posted in that thread to start off with if I had of known about it. I was looking for more constructive criticism over what was bad about the video
 
Good work sonny!

Next video - take some time and look at videos you like and then write down what you like about them. Even take freeze frames of the shots you like the best. Put it on a board.

Then look at the video you did, and see what you want to accomplish next time out.

Rock on my friend! Stay Filming!
 
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