Feedback For Our Music Video
As we expected, there are a lot of things that we can do to improve our video as we made many mistakes that we have learnt from. The benefit of making these mistakes first time round are that when we create our final video, we will have the knowledge to know how to produce a higher quality video, we need to:
- Focus the camera and even use a tripod, and the reason for this is that it will allow for us to take clearer camera shots so that our video looks more realistic and is of a higher standard. This will improve our video a lot because the main problem is that it looks very blurred and it makes the video lose its realistic look.
- Another thing that we can make sure of is that the bassist (Will Jones), hasn't got chewing gum in his mouth, which he has consistently through. This makes it lose the realistic approach as you would never see a band member with chewing gum in their mouth whilst they are performing.
- Derry Foran (our lead singer) has to be more clear with his vocals when singing so it can be easier for the audience to understand what he is signing, and it makes it difficult for us to make the music and song in sync with what he is singing. At times he also hides behind the microphone so you can't see what he is saying, and this is another thing we need to work on, to make sure he stands back enough so that you can see what he is singing.
- As we didn't notice throughout, our keyboardist, Ali Lord, makes many mistakes throughout which ruin the video a lot. He pulls numerous 'unusual' faces which don't suit the look that we are going for at all, and it makes the video look like a comedy. In addition, he puts on his jacket and hat and keeps taking them on and off throughout our video which we didn't realise. This makes the video look even less realistic than it does as he keeps on changing his costume throughout.
- Another problem with our video is that the band are performing to calmly and slow, when they should be more enthusiastic and have a fast tempo to reflect the song. This is both down to the band not moving as fast as they should and being enthusiastic, and down to our editing, we need to speed up the tempo of the editing to make it raise the tempo of the video so it reflects the style of the video.
- There needs to be more emphasis when playing, especially with the drums and guitar as these are the main two instruments that are heard in the song, and therefore we need to film them more often, and when they are playing, they need to put more effort into it when they are playing. This especially goes for the drumming as it is highly recognisable in the song, and therefore he needs to play it with more effort.
- It would also help if the lead singer (Derry Foran) learnt the words fully to the song. He knows most of them, but at times he isn't as confident with them so he doesn't 'sing' them as clearly, which makes the music and our performance lose the connection as it begins to look out of tune due to him singing out of time.
- We need to work on the costume of the band, the reason for this is that there was a variety (T-shirt, Plain Shirts & Hawaiian Themed Shirts). This doesn't appeal to our audience in the video, especially as we are trying to create the image of the Courteeners as they reach out to the same audience that we are trying to. We need to make them wear plain shirts so that they all look like a band collectively, as this will help the band look like they are together, and it will create a realistic and professional look.
- In addition, we unnecessarily used microphone stands in front of Finn (Lead Guitarist) and the bassist (Will Jones), and this led to their being a restricted view on them playing their instrument. Next time we need to ensure that the only microphone and stand that is being used is for our lead singer so that you get a clear view of all the other band members.
- We need to try and recreate the filming style that has been used by the cameramen for Jools Holland, when The Vaccines made their first performance on there, playing the songs If You Wanna and Blow It Up (as shown below).
Blow It Up -
- Another problem with our video is that the band are performing to calmly and slow, when they should be more enthusiastic and have a fast tempo to reflect the song. This is both down to the band not moving as fast as they should and being enthusiastic, and down to our editing, we need to speed up the tempo of the editing to make it raise the tempo of the video so it reflects the style of the video.
- There needs to be more emphasis when playing, especially with the drums and guitar as these are the main two instruments that are heard in the song, and therefore we need to film them more often, and when they are playing, they need to put more effort into it when they are playing. This especially goes for the drumming as it is highly recognisable in the song, and therefore he needs to play it with more effort.
- It would also help if the lead singer (Derry Foran) learnt the words fully to the song. He knows most of them, but at times he isn't as confident with them so he doesn't 'sing' them as clearly, which makes the music and our performance lose the connection as it begins to look out of tune due to him singing out of time.
- We need to work on the costume of the band, the reason for this is that there was a variety (T-shirt, Plain Shirts & Hawaiian Themed Shirts). This doesn't appeal to our audience in the video, especially as we are trying to create the image of the Courteeners as they reach out to the same audience that we are trying to. We need to make them wear plain shirts so that they all look like a band collectively, as this will help the band look like they are together, and it will create a realistic and professional look.
- In addition, we unnecessarily used microphone stands in front of Finn (Lead Guitarist) and the bassist (Will Jones), and this led to their being a restricted view on them playing their instrument. Next time we need to ensure that the only microphone and stand that is being used is for our lead singer so that you get a clear view of all the other band members.
- We need to try and recreate the filming style that has been used by the cameramen for Jools Holland, when The Vaccines made their first performance on there, playing the songs If You Wanna and Blow It Up (as shown below).
Blow It Up -
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