Evaluation of unit 21

Evaluation for unit 21

Unit 21 is about doing our own personal project. We had the choice of doing any of the previous units again e.g. music video, photography short film etc. I chose to do a music video because my first music video I did wasn’t as id liked it to be so I thought I could do another one to see if I could improve my skills of filming and editing a music video. I chose the song ball and biscuit by the white stripes because I had the idea of someone being drugged and having to go to school, so that song fitted the description because of the lyrics matching the idea of drugs. Although the lyrics match the video, the tempo is so much faster than the video in some places because certain guitar solos don’t match the pace of the video. For example when Dan (the character) is walking down the corridor the music is too fast for the pace that Dan is walking at.

Compared to my initial ideas, my final version was nothing like the way I planned it. Some of the ideas I had could not be filmed because I didn’t have the right equipment or the shot was near impossible to take. The general idea of the character (Dan) being spiked worked but I was unable to edit everything so it seemed the way it had when I pictured it. In the plan I said that I would have different masks for a whole class full of people, but because people had their own projects to do, I only had a few people to help with my music video.

The production of my music video was harder than I thought because for the first week Dan was ill so I was unable to film anything apart from the POV shots. Then I was unable to meet Dan at all over the Easter holidays that I was meant to be filming at my house. This set me back for 3 weeks’ worth of filming so in order to get my music video done anywhere near the time that I was supposed to have it finished by, I had to come in after school and film and then go back to my house and film. This gave me limited time to edit all of the footage so the end result was nowhere near how it should have turned out.

Name What went well What didn’t do wellJacob Wilson I really enjoyed the editing style

to create a trippy atmosphere and the use of the cameras shakiness really added to that.

The camera shot consistency changed and I would had preferred if it stayed shaky and edited throughout. penis

Thomas Atkinson Appropriate use of effects, utilised as much as possible and very well, especially considering how few would actually be offered by the software

Inconsistency in the method of holding the camera and some were framed oddly

Karne meaby I really like the editing as it creates a great feel throughout the video.

Shaky camera looks good but I think it got over used.

Bethany Williamson I loved the effects throughout the video using negative imagery black and white stuff and the end scene with the shaky camera.

Some of the camera frames were unusually filmed but other than that I liked it.

On the table above different people have reviewed my music video. The positive feedback that I gained has really helped me to realise the flaws in my video. Although the strengths of my video stand out, such as the effects on some of the POV shots, the weaknesses are significant because of the way the camera was not stabilised in some shots and were shaky for example when I was filming Dan running down the hill I was standing on my longboard and going down the hill made the camera quite shaky because of the bumps and turning to avoid cars.

This screenshot shows the scene I just described and the camera missed out a lot of Dan running because it was shaking so much but this was the best and last take that I was able to film due to timing. If I were to do it again I would stabilise the images so it would have a cleaner image and I would make sure I would have enough time to get everything done.

I really liked the transition from the shot of Dan into the POV shot of the school entrance because it was cleaner than I thought. If I were to do it again I would make it perfect bese some of the frames

were not linked as perfect as I would have liked.