Analysis of a student video

I am going to analyse a music video made by a past student in my school, to see if our music video is on the same stardard. This music video is called 'When You're Gone'

I like the following about this video

I like the ambient sound of the background in the beginning scene from 0:03 to 0:14 we can hear birds chirping & the sound of wind blowing around as she is meant to be in the woods.

I like the idea that she is playing the piano in the beginning also.

I really like that there is performance shots as well as narrative shots. And the narrative shots look really realistic and it makes you feel familiar with the actors.

I like the costume changes and the clothes that she uses in the different scenes, they match up well with the scenes and the different shots and scenes made the video interesting, I didn’t find it repetitive or boring.

I like how she is lip-syncing with so much energy and it looks like she is actually the singer and it looks like a very professional music video and how she put effort in her acting.

I really like how the narrative is in black and white and the performance is in colour. I was going to do this in my music video but we decided not to.

I like the transitions that she used when the boy was disappearing when she was missing him, it looked really professional

I like how the video ends with the quick paced shots from 3:59 to 4:04 her editing was superb.

I do not like the following about the video

I think that there should have been more mise-en-sene present, I think there should have been more make up on her at the last performance scene when she was wearing the long glittery dress from 3:14 to 3:58 the dress was really pretty but she could have complemented it with nicer hair and make up.

 

Overall I am really impressed with the music video and I think it was a great video to compare mine to as I have used some of the things she has used like

Both using performance and narrative shots

Use of transitions and fades

Costume changes

This was a good music video to compare mine to as the theme is very similar to mine, mainly two characters in the video, boy and girl and it revolves around their lives and it shows aspect of romance, teenage love, loneliness, isolation and we feel pity for the girl as she is alone as we feel pity for the boy in my music video as he is also feeling isolated and lonely