Task Four - Understand the techniques of music videos

Foo FIghters The Pretender 

I created a animatic for the music video The Pretender by the Foo Fighters to explore shot variety. We started by watching the vidoe pauseing every differnt shot . This was done to help understand and see the shot variration that is in music videos. I watched 40 seconds of the music video and found in that 40 secons 29 different shots were used creating shot variation. I  drew each of the shots onto a story-board  then filmed it forming my anaimatic. This helped us see shot variation and see how to apply it to our music video.

When createding the animatic I learnt the importance of shot varition as though the first 40 seconds of the song there was loads of different varation in shots makeing the music vidoe more intresting, as useing only a few shots made music vidoes boring. Wer also learnt when watching the impaortssance of movement of the shots. If all the shorts were stationary , the music video would have been unitresting an dull , but instead the music video have jmovement in the shorts makeing a triaval shot look more intreseting. I learnt the movemnt of shots for our music vidoe would make it more intresting and less boring music video. I also leasrnt the importance of the mise en scene (props, set and musicens). The music video seems plain in a big white room , but with further inpection i noticed the important part the mise en scene. Even though it is just a band it a white room , there is a lot of details (e.g. props in room) that make the music vidoe more intresteing for audiences to watch. Which shows the importance of mise en scene because the music video would have bben boring without al the little details that make up the mise en scene in the music video which i will carry to my music video.The pace of editing is also iportant to the music video . In the music vidoe , even though we only watched 40 seconds of the video there was fast editing with 29 shots in the time piroeod. This is done to make sure the vidoe is not slow and boring   and keeps audiences intrest. Also the fast paced makes what happwning on scrren look more intresting. The importance of the spped of edieing is imkmpertive the the music video as it made it more intrwsting which I will put it in our music video.