Music Video

Well, here is our first project in the entertainment semester. We were assigned to create a music video from a song, and it could either be a recreation of the official music video, or our own cinematography. So we chose to create our own. I teamed up with Liz and our other classmates: Austin and Brett.

Austin's grandma had a lot of land, so we decided to film the music video over there on the weekend. The trouble was though, that it was a cold, windy, and slightly damp day. Somehow though, with a lot of determination and lighter fluid, we managed to get a good fire burning. But we came upon another problem: we barely had any footage when it was getting dark. We only had two verses and a few fire shots. The third verse was rushed and I tried my best to fix the lighting. So we decided that we had to make a few changes, like using the fire as a light source for the final verses.

Most of our b-roll was just fire shots, so it was a bit hard to fill up all of the non-verses and keep it interesting. I think I managed pretty well, though. It did reuse some footage, but used effects and different cuts of it to make each clip look new. A lesson learned: get a better variety of b-roll, and don't procrastinate when it comes to outdoor filming.