The Pretender Animatic

What We Had To Do: 

For this particular task we were required to watch 45 seconds of the Foo Fighters music video entitled "The Pretender" and in these 45 seconds we had to record ever time a different shot was used and record these results in the form of an animatic. As soon as this was done we were then required to download the music video itself by the means of file conversion and place it in the bottom right hand corner of the screen in a sony vegas project. Lastly we had to match up the separate shot images from our animatic to the shot changes in the actual music video which was playing in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

What We Learned By Doing This:

We learned multiple things from doing this project, one example of something we learned was the range of shot variety which is used in music videos. The 45 seconds of this music video contained over 30 shots and all of them being completely unique with the exception of a few repeats of certain shots within the music video for the odd few seconds.
We also learned that the duration of shots in a music video are very very short, hence causing the pace of editing to be extremely quick. This is the case for the song we chose because of its fast rock style genre, therefore a fast pace of editing with a violent tone suits this video perfectly. If we hope to do a song similar to this one then we will also have to learn how to organise that man shots and still have a good variety.

How Is Editing A Music Video Different To Editing Your Thriller?:

editing a music video would have drastic differences from editing our thriller, here are a few reasons why. Editing our thriller was a lot more slower paced in terms of the speed of editing, all our shots were approximately 4 seconds long, with the exception of the chase scene which even then was at least a second long whereas in the of fighters music video there was a majority of shots that didn't even last a second. As well as this we will also have to be very creative with the sits that we choose to use as they all need to be different in their own way so that a sense of variety is given off but at the same time the shots need to be in good positions so the music video still looks good. Lastly the actual recording process of this video will also be much more tedious, this is because we will need to re record the same line of lyrics more than once ever single time if we want to get more than one shot of this section of the song. This will prove difficult as we do not have more than one camera to use, so stoping and starting recording again is the only option.


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