Evaluation Of Past Student Work

She's Got You High

Dislikes:

I think that the shots used are too simplistic, they tend to all be mid shots that have the characters positioned in the middle of the frame and standing still. They could have been more creative with the shots used and following the characters with the camera making the camera having movement rather than just watching the characters stand still within the frame.  

I felt there were too many uses of the same shot making what could have been a nice shot being over used and predictable that it would be used over and over again. This shot is where the camera was focused on the shot and then pans up towards the sky. I think they should have used the shot once which would have been effective but they overused it and need more shot variances.

They used photos towards the end of the video, this felt like they were being used to fill in gaps in the music video because they were photos probably taken from the shots which we have just seen previously. 

I think for it to be a good music video, they need to have different locations within or make it clear that this same location isn't just one.

Likes:

They have used colour correction to make the shot of them man singing lighter and a different colour with the tone of orange/yellow creating the 'sunshine' effect which matches the song lyrics 'I think the sun will shine through'.

At the beginning of the music video they make plenty of cuts to reveal the location of the video to the audience. They start of well however towards the end of the music video the shots become long making fewer cuts and not having as great as effective as it did at the beginning.