Music Video Experience

Myself and my two partners took on the task of creating a music video for the song Freaking Out the Neighborhood by Mac Demarco and this proved to be a much more difficult task than we anticipated. 

Now my main job with this music video was the cinematography but I did make sure to include myself and help out with everything we needed. With that said I learned many, many things about cinematography while filming this music video and it is not as easy as I had originally thought. One of the main things I learned while filming was that it really is an arduous process in getting the perfect shot and that the shot is affected by so many things. For example, the weather, something no one can control but was on our side when we filmed but, the main problem that the weather had with us was that it was blistering hot outside and we were outside for hours filming so we had to take many breaks in between shots. But this in turn helped us with getting beautiful clear shots outside because it was so bright. Another thing I learned was the impact that certain shots can have on the video, for example, further toward the end of our video we had an attempt at a full-tilt dutch shot and I believe that we pulled it off as it look great in showing the exhaustion. When it came to editing that wasn't my field of expertise but I did learn how to use basic editing sources such as capcut and I think in the long run me being able to learn basic editing skills help me show my group my ideas when it came to that part of our project.

This is a photo of one of our beautiful shots with the help of the weather.

This here is a photo of our full tilt dutch angle to help convey feelings of exhaustion.

     

When it comes to mise-en-scene we really couldn't do too much in that field, from that I've learned you really need to be able to interpret a shot and what you are shooting for to help develop mise-en-scene. Through the video, we struggled with including mise-en-scene but at one point one of our locations was a park and there was a family there which greatly helped our mise-en-scene of him "Freaking out the neighborhood."

Some plans that turned out fantastic was our limited space to film. My partner didn't have much freedom when it came to going g out to film so we had a limited area which we used to the fullest extent and it worked out perfectly as we had many shots we were proud of. Another plan that went very well was the full-tilt dutch angle we filmed, with that shot we took a huge risk because if it looked sloppy it would've had the opposite effect and would've looked terrible. Lastly was the problem of the family at the park but in the end, the family only made the video better as it added more to the clip.

One of the problems that came up while filming was initially the family but it helped us in the end but it was a problem because the people watching over the children didn't speak English so we tried to ask them if we could film and here and tell them our plan so as to not surprise or hurt anyone but it was difficult due to the language barrier but one of the children they were watching explained to them and said that it was okay so we proceeded to film the clip.

Another problem with the filming process was my partner being clumsy. My partner after one of the shots could not stop running and he fell and hurt his ankle, we needed to take a break from filming so he could recuperate and feel better but afterward, it hurt for while longer. This was solved as we took an extensive break and calmed the running in the shots down to avoid any further injury.

Our biggest problem was the lack of clips so we needed to extend some parts as we wouldn't have enough film to fill in the music. We solved this by using longer clips at some points and adding some filler in between some clips to help extend our music video. I also cut up the song to make a seamless cut in the song where there was a prolonged instrumental at the end, I cut it up to shorten the song so our video could reach the end. 

This photo is from one of the clips that we needed to end up extending to fit our video but we also added jump cuts to show the passage of time and shorten this clip too.