First Shoot Reflection

Embarrassing, the simplest word I can use to show how it felt to try and look cool during a photo-shoot. Me and the group travelled to a room that was free for use and we were able to find a technician who was able to set up a sole spot light on us and we all tried to pose in our coolest indie/rock styles but we all looked embarrassing. I don't think a modelling career is going to follow this media coursework, the style we tried to go for was limited as we did not have a budget for clothes, in a style used by the script and we were then limited by our time as we had to be finished within half an hour as a class were schedule after us. We couldn't get a group photograph at that time as there was a fault with the camera that stopped us being able to put a timer on it and there was no one else available to take that picture but once we have a picture we will upload it onto our personal blogs and the group blog.

Although the two pictures are in no way similar The Script are a well known band who use dramatic poses in photo shoots, the image on the right is meant to symbolise the sadness in the lead singer (me) due to the emotion used in the song. Each photo-shop may that be professional or amateur usually has a meaning behind e.g. a theme of what the band are trying to show such as sadness, or happiness. We are going down the road of sadness and emotion as the song we are doing a cover for is fill of emotion.

Edits and Transitions

Edits are really important in music videos as a continuous story show or continuous performance many become boring and tiring towards the audience who maybe want a little bit more entertainment or a quick break. Many music videos such as The Fray- You Found Me use these types of edits such as a birds eye view looking down on a major city or a time lapse, doing these creates an one screen visual spectacle to enjoy for the audience rather than being continuously shown the same type of camera shots from the storyline on the screen the edits like the ones mentioned make the music video look a lot more professional and makes it look as if a great deal of effort has been put into the music video making us appreciate it more.