Evaluation of practice media music video.Natalie Murray

The song we were given to make our practice film was "I wanna be sedated" by Offspring.
We used digital technology when creating our video. Using a digital camera to film our footage which was then uploaded to the iMacs using iMovieHD, a sofware programe on the macs. The iMovie software also allowed us to edit the media film. I did the majority of the editing but the whole group made decisions to how the final peice would look. we used some editing tecniques like speed up and reverse to create the nessessary affects for the film, this was all using iMovieHD. After this we uploaded our video to be veiwed on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HaSZYRQvjQ and then onto our blog.

When planning, we listened to the lyrics and printed them off. We then analysied the lyrics, brainstorming ideas to what we could possibly do for our peice. We also looked on youtube.com for the official video but were unsuccessful in finding the video itslef, this gave us an advantage to find something orginal for the song and we also had the additional exciting challenge as to think of something new. We enjoyed this as we didnt feel like we were copying anything from the orginal as there wasnt one. Our initial idea was to make a mini set almost using miniture figures such as a model areoplane, limo ect. but due to a time restraint we had to change out idea. We planned using the lyrics and broke the song down into musical breaks, chorus' and verses. When we broke the lyrics down we decided that we'd make each line a different thing as the song was upbeat and the song broke down into lines easier. We planned by looking at other media videos which we found conventions such as narratice and performance. using videos of a similar genre music (rock) we found that many had performance of instruments and lip syncing. Despite conforming conventions in this way, we also subverted them by not using a story as we found it too difficult to find a plot for our song and therefore took the theme ofthe song instead which was rock and as we took the lyrics like "sedated","Insane" and & "loco" to help towards our themed idea.
I think our we had many strengths in our music video including the subversion. Many other groups followed a narrative whereas we used the main theme of lyric cards and performance. our one weakness i feel is toward the end of the video we didn't have a specific shot so used the imac filming software to film a short section, unfortunately i didnt work so well so we wouldnt do this again. With audience feed back we had some positive feedback suchs as: the link between the lyrics and content (like our plan suggested), the clock shot, the editing to fit the beat of the music, the fast paced song fitting with the beat of the song.