Project 4

Music video evaluation

“Just Dance” Lady Gaga
(The actual video wouldnt load onto my blog).

For our music video Shelley and I decided to base it on the single “Just Dance” by Lady Gaga from her debut album. We decided on this song because we both liked the song and thought we could do something simple but still effective with it. We decided to do a typical dance style video; it was all filmed in a TV studio, the people who performed in the video were Shelley and her friend who did the dancing, where one of them was also singing the song (Shelley), we also had someone else from one of the other groups feature in it to sing a small verse of the song which was sung by a male singer (Grant).
We used a choreographed routine which the dancers already knew. We used a few different shots, and there were 3 costume changes which were all simple dance costumes, although the part when Shelley sings she wears a dance costume for that aswell.

One of the problems we had when it came to editing was that we didn’t have enough footage. The recordings we had only went up to the end of the first chorus and so there was some difficulty spreading it out throughout the rest of the video, especially as the song was 4 minutes long. We cut off 2 minutes of the video to bring it down and make it easier to fill in the gaps so we wouldn’t just be repeating everything every chorus. To make it easier we did use some of the clips twice. Also because there weren’t many different camera views and angles we had to zoom in on quite a few clips so it wasn’t all at long shots. The only medium close up we had was when Shelley was filmed singing.
I think if there was a chance to alter or improve out video, we could have shot a wider variety of scenes, with maybe a different background, and definitely lots of different types of shots and angles. This would just be to mix things up a bit because at times when you’re watching it, it can seem a bit repetitive.