Year 13 Practice Music Video

Below is what we done for my second preliminary task set, creating a music video to the song Candy by Maradona. This task also gave my group and I a rough idea on what we wanted to do for a final practical piece. I felt that this task required a little more thought and effort put into it as producing a music is completely different from a film opening. As this was my second preliminary task, it helped to give me a better insight on what I wanted to do for my final media piece.

In conclusion I believe that my second task wasn't as good as expected for a number of reasons. The first reason being we didn't really have many good ideas when it came to producing a music video so we were limited when it came round to actually making it. Secondly, the music video is only 21 seconds long where as it was meant to be 40 seconds - 1 minute long. This preliminary task was nowhere near as good as our first task which is slightly disappointing to say the least.

To the left is a picture of the album cover to the song candy shop by Madonna. This was the song given to my group and I in order to make a music video to. When we first heard the song our minds went blank as it's not the type of genre music we listen to so we had no idea what to do when it came to producing a music video. So in the end we just decided to do something random for it.



In the end we decided that producing a music video isn't want we want to do for our final media piece.

What I have learnt from this entry includes a variety of things. Firstly, from this practice task It has taught me to put a lot more effort and planning when producing a music video or any video for that instance and because of this, it shows how much little time and effort we put into this practice task as we didn't manage to finish the second task set. So in the future, I will try to be as consistent and productive as I can when it comes to being set a task such as the one above. However, although this task wasn't completed it also taught me a new shot which I plan on using in my final piece. The shot used is called a 'two shot' and this is when the frame encompasses a view of two people usually referred to as 'the subjects'. Typically this particular shot is used to show emotional reactions between the subjects but in this example we have used the shot to capture two people dancing. 

This entry has also taught me that as the task set was to produce a music video to the song candy shop - Madonna. That I should make a clear and obvious link to the theme, which is candy but we failed to do so. So in the future if I have to make a music video, I will be sure to make some sort of link to the main focus of the song.