Overall, I found filming and editing the music video
Starstrukk by 3Oh3. Even though it was fun, in my opinion I thought it was a
challenge because there were things which required a lot of effort and
patience. Firstly, you had to consider who is going to take part in the video,
which for our particular video was hard due to the huge amount of people
involved in the original video. Moreover, the location of the video was during
the day near a fountain, so it couldn’t be filmed during college, therefore
meaning people would have to be willing to use some of their spare time in order
to shoot and not many people would do that. Despite me not being there to film
because I was working, the other people which were in my group filmed the video
in Queens Gardens in the town centre, and by what they said I suspect that this
was harder than expected too. They predicted they’d be filming for an hour, in
the end they spent approximately 3 hours on filming.
After filming, the video had to be edited on Final Cut Pro.
This was also time enduring as you had to crop the video so that the actions in
the video matched to the correct words/tunes in the song. In addition to this
it was hard to match the lip-reading which the characters performed to the
song. Overall, from using this I have learn’t how to add effects such as zoom
into the picture, which was useful and how to transform and crop images in
order to allow the video to show specific parts which you need. Moreover, I
have learn’t how to allow the original song to be played in the background of
the video.
If I were to change anything about the Music Video it would
have been to get involved more. I helped filming a few shots during college
time, and obviously I couldn’t film because I was busy but I feel as if I could
have spent more time editing the video rather than doing story boards and playing the
video over and over again. Also, I feel that we needed to get more shots
because there were a few errors during the video, e.g in one of the shots one
of the boys was wearing a necklace the next shot he wasn’t, and also one of the
shots was filmed the wrong way. In addition to this, some of the shots were
repeated, which I think personally we should have made them more varied.
Another thing, that as a team we found hard was deciding
which song to do a re make of. There were four songs we was stuck between: Sia
Chandelier, Problem by Ariana Grande, Gotye somebody that I used to know and
Starstrukk, which we chose. We chose Starstrukk because we felt that all the
other videos were boring and didn’t have any action in them except Gotye
Somebody that I used to know and that would have been too much of a challenge
as it would of required a lot of props we didn’t have.
