Music Video ~ Written Reflection

    The song I chose to do the music video on is called "It Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" by Tame Impala. Before I left school to go on a family vacation I found the song two days before and thought that the shots from Cuba would look good with the mood of the song, When I was there I did not have a story board made, this resulted in me taking random shots that I thought looked interesting on their own. But i did plan on creating a time lapse of the sunrise and sunset, I did a bit of research on time lapse prior leaving because I knew there wouldn't be any WiFi. 

When i got back I sorted out the potential clips that I could use for the video and started to create a story board. I had a really great idea that at the beginning of the song I show clips for .5 of a second and change it four times, as it went with the beat. I personally love the first 15 seconds of the video, everything flows together so smoothly. Now when i was in Cuba I found it to be hard to film people because i would need to explain everything and instead i focused creating a more visually appealing video that focused more on timing with the music. 

Timing is a huge part of what i think makes my music video intriguing to watch, I even managed to get 3 amazing shots of animals moving with the song. The first appearance is when the song says "every part of me says go ahead" and the dog walks away which fits perfectly. Then it was when the bird said "I hear it inside my head all day" it moved its head. After at 1:07 and 1:11 my dad turned around with the beat. So basically a lot of the shots were just meant to be part of the video. My way of creating unity was to use only the shots from Cuba that show mostly nature and animals. 

The video did have a couple symbolic shots including the time lapse of the shells,it represented how in the the lyrics it says "every part of me says go ahead" and at the beginning the shells form the shape of a heart and as the clip keeps going it loses it shape and leaves the screen. Another one was at 1:40-1:50 when it says " it feels like we only go backwards" the stop light turned green to indicate to go forward but as it says "only go backwards" the light turns red again showing that nothing really happend.

I had technical difficulty's when filming during the car ride because the road was very bumpy causing my shots to be very shaky. This was my first time ever using Premiere Pro and at first I had no idea how to do anything until i started asking my classmates how to do this and that. Which helped me out a lot when editing.

An Artistic video~ alt-J Breezeblcoks

I have chosen to write about the music video by alt-J  and the song is called Breezeblcoks. Ever since I watched the first couple of seconds I couldn't look away by how interesting it was filmed. My first impression when watching i thought that man who appeared in the video was the bad guy, because it looked like he killed the women in the tub. But since the video is in reverse you really need to pay attention to every detail and try to put all the pieces together to find out what really is going on. To me it was and still is one of my favourite videos to watch because you are expected to follow along, making it feel like a puzzle piece which I find to be nice. Both women in the video I think are supposed to represent the same woman. The man is fighting for his marriage, he attempts to save the wife he knows and loves (in the closet), but he feels like she is leaving “Please don’t go, I love you so”. The plot is basically about a man trying to keep his marriage but it isn't getting anywhere he would hope it would be.

Since the entire video it shows the man and women fighting the color in each scene has a  dark blue to it which can symbolise sadness. Even though the tone of the song is quite calming and doesn't have a fast pace, having the clips backwards plus making it have a bit of slow motion balances out the rage that the actors have while fighting. Which i think was a smart move because it doesn't get the viewer excited as someone would watch a fight happen, it has a type of calmness to it that makes it easy to watch. 

The ending i think is great because it shows the water running which then has you remember that at the beginning of the video (which is technically the end) shows the woman the man was fighting with is supposedly dead in the tub  to represent how he won, but they also show a clip of him zoomed in resting his head on his hand which can symbolise him contemplating on whether or not it was worth it.