My Prom Queen Music Video


This is my music video for the song, Prom Queen by Beach Bunny. This project took a really long time to get together and I'm so glad it turned out almost like I had it planned in my head. It feels like I've been working on this for such a long time even though its only been about two weeks, to be honest. Much like my last project, this was such a learning experience for me. Ive learned from my shortcomings last time and purchased tripod to help me capture better scenes this time around. This made my filming process much easier than before. I was able to shoot all of my scenes without assistance and I'm really proud of that. Throughout this project my editing skills have gotten much better too. I was able to make my video flow really well together with minimal transitions. I ended up not adding transitions between every scene because some of them didn't really need it. I felt that it looked better without transitions in some places. Although I am proud of my video, there are definitely some things that I could have done differently. For example, the location wasn't necessarily ideal. On the other hand, shooting in my bedroom added a more home-y feel to the music video which is much like the original music video. So, in a way I guess it worked out. Another thing I wish I would've done was get better lighting. It isn't incredibly noticeable but in the beginning parts of the music video the lighting was poor because it was starting to get dark outside. I wasn't adjusted to the new times so it was shocking to me that it started getting dark at around 4:30pm. If I was aware of the new times I would've purchased a light on Amazon. Unfortunately, it was a little too late for that and I was already days behind on filming. Other than that, I think everything went exactly as planned. But due to the little mishaps here and there, I now see the areas that I need to improve in. I need to work on sticking to my plan and my storyboard. I ended up changing the orientation of one of the scenes last minute while I was filming because it wasn't coming out the way I wanted it to. And I think that's fine but I changed the orientation of not one but two scenes (2nd and 13th). This could become a problem in the future where I deviate so far from my storyboard that you'd never even guess that the video was based on it. I will put more thought into storyboarding next time so that this issue doesn't get worse. All in all, I'd like to say that I'm proud of my work once again and I hope I can take this project and apply what I've learned in future ones. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Production Blog: Photoshopping

Image
 okay so today I made used photoshop to create fake screenshots and profiles for the extra characters I'll be using in my opening. so first I started by taking screenshots of my actual instagram page on my MacBook to get a desktop view. Then, I airdropped these screenshots to mymy phone where I input them into this editing software called pics art. in PicsArt I removed the pieces of information I didn't want like the username and flower sound and edited themto customize his fake profile. I blocked out the username (which is my instagram user handle) and changed it to Megan.K (which is the main character's catfish name). Then, I blocked out the bio that I had in place to replace it with something new. In the place of the nameplate I changed it to say Megan Baby and on the third line I put NAHS as a random high school name. Then, for the 3 follower phases I had planned, i made each phase change from 2 to 3 to 4 digits. This is mean to show the drastic increase in followers th
Read more

Genre Research: Lady Bird

Image
 The last drama film I watched was Lady Bird. It's a Drama/Comedy and the drama side seems to shine through a lot more here. It's a narrative in the perspective of the main character, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson. She strives to attend a prestigious college. Unfortunately, her grades aren't the best and she comes from an extremely low income family that's situation increasingly gets worse because her father lost his job. Because of her obsession with going to a prestigious university's, she's willing Tod o everything she can, including betray even her closest friend to make connections. Throughout the course of the movie she and her best friend are seen doing almost everything together but once Lady Bird sets her sight on something new, she often compromises the relationship with her best friend to get it. This creates a major conflict from the start where she slowly but surely changes up her personality to appeal to whoever she's trying to impr
Read more

Shantaneil: The Start

Image
 Hello, my name is Shantaneil Francis. I'm currently attending Fort Lauderdale High as a 10th grader this year. This year is very important to me because I've been looking forward to taking this class since last year. One of my reasons being, I've never been the most artistic or creative person, nor have I gotten the opportunity to learn about film or media until I enrolled in Fort Lauderdale High. Another major reason I took this class is to be able to look at the progress I’ve made in this course. A lot of the time, students tend to forget what they’ve learned in a class and move on once they got the credit. I, however, find it rewarding to see how far I’ve come when learning something new that I like. I hope that with the knowledge and possible experience I gain from taking this class that I'm able to develop my creative skills for the future. I've tried testing new hobbies to find something that I enjoy but nothing seems to stick. One thing that I've always
Read more