Unwed Teenage Mothers Music Video

[Ron Rodenmeyer]

Here's a music video I worked on for Oxford, MS band Unwed Teenage Mothers. Shot mostly on a GH2 with a couple GH1 shots. Neither camera was hacked. Edited in FCP 7.



https://vimeo.com/64968537

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Alester Crowley would be proud...

Given the sort of processing that goes on with music videos these days, your video seems to be a bit 'too straight'. The 'red' color of the candles and t-shirts didn't quite work for me, and the camera work seemed a bit 'conservative'. I think would have made the film more monochrome, and then the red would perhaps read better for me.

As a note... when there's a group shot, the people on the walkway in the background bridge sort of distracted me...

I would have liked to have seen more low angle, or high angle shots.

There was also a problem with the time of day... at that time for many of the shots, I don't think the GH-1/2 performs particularly well with the shadows or growing night. (The group under the bridge shot, the group has little contrast with the background...).

Also... given the name "Unwed Teenage Mothers"... I was expecting... a preggers girl band... or at least a gang of preggers groupie girls... but I digress...