Reflection on First Draft

Upon reflecting on my first draft I made some critical changes before submitting my final version. To start off with I cut the length of my music video down. Initially the video was 31 seconds too long, this led me to cut the end of the song shorting the length of my video. I believed that cutting the length of the music was more strategic than cutting the parts of the footage which would have led to the vast proportion of the video being out of sync, as I had already edited 2:40 worth of my footage and placed to match the transition of the music which helps to deepen the impact of the narrative and the drama aspect of the music video. 

I found myself in the strange position of having a song that was 31 seconds too long and not enough footage to reach the 3-minute requirement set out in the brief. This led to m having to film 30 more seconds of footage which I did successfully within a week. Within the week of additional filming I, successfully finished by second narrative and filmed the basketball shots from the first narratives which were the final shots from my storyboard that I had not filmed. This enabled me to bring an end to the filming process and focus on post production editing. I started by adding to a more sophisticated retro atmosphere to my home footage. I successfully did this by adding a filter from iMovie and change the footage from black and white to colour onto the selected 30 seconds of footage. 

I added the title of my song to the first two shots as initially it was missing. I choose to place this in the first two shots as this conforms to the conventions of music videos. The title of the song’s transition matches the beat of the music introducing both the artist ‘Martin Garrix and changes on the beat to introduce the featuring artists ‘Khalid’. 

Following the changes I have made since my first draft I believe I have now, competently, construct the music video, I desired to create, expressing the themes of nostalgia, self-expressionism and vulnerability which creates a fair representation of a postmodern young adult life.