Benji Boko Feat. Maxi Jazz - Where My Heart Is

This music video i have looked at i near enough one continuous take, of the same shots repeated or reversed. The video is just constant performance footage with the occasional flash in shot of another face.

0.14 min

There are a few things that can be taken from this music video that we may consider putting into our
work one of which is the effect of layering clips over one another and reversing one of them so it is at the opposite way round, the opacity is then decreased therefore, one face is more dominant than the other. This can all be done on Final Cut Pro X and would be rather easy to do when it comes to editing.

1.35 min

I did notice a problem that we could solve, as this is used on a green screen as the shot uses a downwards transition, his body is cut off under the shoulders. This doesn't look to good and can be soled by creating a cover that shapes normally round the body for example cutting out a piece of cardboard and shaping it around the bottom of the characters face. This way the full circle of the head would be shown on the screen and there would be no straight lines. If we were to use something like this in our music video it could work well as it could relate to our characters nightmares, having a green screen face looming in the background of a specific shot or popping up in different places of the video.

In my opinion this is a really boring video, because it is one continuous shot pretty much there is no narrative whats so ever its arguable that there is some concept involved. However, this has no effect on the video. Their is no hook to keep the audience watching which is what i would want from a music video such as his previous videos, Faithless - God is a Dj does this really well as the build up of the song links in with the visuals and the narrative/performance works really well.

I think as group we can do a lot better than this video because the editing in the video is minimalistic. Our video will also contain a narrative structure to it as well as performance footage and from the past videos i have seen of Faithless this has worked really well.