Track Selection Issues

Some of the issues with our track selection which is I Feel Good - Cream is that the song is very psychedelic and the band were thought to be highly under the influence of drugs when the wrote the song. The problem with this is that it's difficult to portray drug use through the video without actually showing the characters taking drugs and this isn't allowed., therefore we have to use effects which connote to drug use such as the fish eye effect, blur or adjusting with the colours. However, this may not be understood by the audience and they will not acknowledge the influence that drugs have on the song.

Analysing A Past Student's Coursework

I enjoyed this music video and I like how it combines a performance and also a story. I also like how the story links in with the song and the lyrics. It's a good song and the lyrics connote to unhappiness and the video of the two characters certainly link in with these lyrics. From this video I have learnt that I want to do the same thing with my coursework, where a short story is combined with a performance video, however I would have less of the performance and more of the story which will most likely have a lot of action involved. From my AS coursework, I can see how hard it must be to create an A2 video as they are longer, with a lot more shots involved and this is a lot more time consuming. Also, a lot of editing is involved and I think that it's certainly wise to concentrate on making our practice vids as good as possible and to learn as much as we can from them.

I Feel Free - Music Vid (Practise)

 

This is the first practise video for our music video of the song I Feel Good by the band Cream. The band were highly involved with drugs and were thought to be under the influence of drugs when they wrote this song, therefore being psychedelic. Because the song is psychedelic, we have tried to use effects on the editing software of Final Cut to make it look as if the characters in the music video are also under the influence of drugs. The video is supposed to be through the eyes of someone that has taken drugs. We filmed this using HD cameras for the first time - please click here to read about using these cameras.