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Hi Brandon,
I'll do you the favor, since I was in your position once and no one to help or point me in the right direction. I started out as a bboy dancer for zulu nation and toured doing shows with afrika bambaataa for years. Finally got sick of paying videographers $1000 a pop for a simple demo reel. Now understanding how much work and time goes into making videos, I now know. What I'm getting at is, you won't learn this stuff overnight, but looks like you've picked up on it pretty quick. You have the right idea with the style of how music videos are made, but your images lack, tripod, color correction, fill light, and some of your shots are repetitive.
Your video Mac Miller's opening shot has a very nice clean image !
Keep at it
I'll do you the favor, since I was in your position once and no one to help or point me in the right direction. I started out as a bboy dancer for zulu nation and toured doing shows with afrika bambaataa for years. Finally got sick of paying videographers $1000 a pop for a simple demo reel. Now understanding how much work and time goes into making videos, I now know. What I'm getting at is, you won't learn this stuff overnight, but looks like you've picked up on it pretty quick. You have the right idea with the style of how music videos are made, but your images lack, tripod, color correction, fill light, and some of your shots are repetitive.
Your video Mac Miller's opening shot has a very nice clean image !
Keep at it
I saw your music video (the one where they're all in that run-down-looking train stop thing).
Here's a critique: This video tries way to much to be like the video "Ha" by Juvenile, without actually getting the job done right. First things first, you need to bring out a PA system when shooting videos like these and actually play back the song live for them to listen to and lip sync to. It's clear that your rapper barely ever has his mouth sync with the music, and that's a big problem when trying to get useable footage out of this thing.
Beyond that, stylistically, it really looks like every other low budget rap video I've ever seen. Who are these clowns that are gathered around him and why are we watching them? Another thing that I'm noticing is that your video feels like it should be showcasing a country artist, not a rapper. The green and yellow grass which is backlit is a shot straight from most Country music videos that take place in a field. Honestly, I think you would have done better making the whole video "country" themed as a stylistic choice. It may have been more of an interesting choice.
Technically, as someone else posted above me, you need to practice your lighting more. There's not enough fill light, and your key lights are hot back-lighting or side lighting in this video. You always need a good fill with a strong side or back light.
Also, you need to bring the master pedestal up in your settings. This is something I've noticed on almost all of your videos. The dark areas just go black, they don't sustain color and detail. When you just pick the HVX200 up and go, this is a common problem in the footage. Spend some more time learning and tweaking your settings so you can get a beautiful, detailed image.
Since you spend a decent amount of time editing, you should always set out to get the picture with the most latitude and detail possible. You can always heighten contrast, add color, etc, in post, but when you're shooting you should be getting the best image possible.
I hope all of this helps and keep up the work.
Here's a critique: This video tries way to much to be like the video "Ha" by Juvenile, without actually getting the job done right. First things first, you need to bring out a PA system when shooting videos like these and actually play back the song live for them to listen to and lip sync to. It's clear that your rapper barely ever has his mouth sync with the music, and that's a big problem when trying to get useable footage out of this thing.
Beyond that, stylistically, it really looks like every other low budget rap video I've ever seen. Who are these clowns that are gathered around him and why are we watching them? Another thing that I'm noticing is that your video feels like it should be showcasing a country artist, not a rapper. The green and yellow grass which is backlit is a shot straight from most Country music videos that take place in a field. Honestly, I think you would have done better making the whole video "country" themed as a stylistic choice. It may have been more of an interesting choice.
Technically, as someone else posted above me, you need to practice your lighting more. There's not enough fill light, and your key lights are hot back-lighting or side lighting in this video. You always need a good fill with a strong side or back light.
Also, you need to bring the master pedestal up in your settings. This is something I've noticed on almost all of your videos. The dark areas just go black, they don't sustain color and detail. When you just pick the HVX200 up and go, this is a common problem in the footage. Spend some more time learning and tweaking your settings so you can get a beautiful, detailed image.
Since you spend a decent amount of time editing, you should always set out to get the picture with the most latitude and detail possible. You can always heighten contrast, add color, etc, in post, but when you're shooting you should be getting the best image possible.
I hope all of this helps and keep up the work.
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