Our music video limitations

When creating our music video, we feel we came across many limitations in which we felt were out of our control to easily correct.

Most of these limitations were due to the lack of effective equipment and the availability of software. 

Examples of these were;

The camera quality: Due to being students we found the quality of our camera could have negatively impacted our music video and the effectiveness of our footage. We found that some shots were not as clear as we would have desired them to be. Another problem was sharing these cameras with other students which affected our time slot in which we could use these pieces of equipment. 

One massive problem we encountered due to the lack of software was to do with our plans to film slow motion shots of smashing bottles. We have explained this on another blog post. 

Actors- Although our actors were extremely cooperative and enthusiastic, due to being students themselves (one of them was also a full time boarder, who was not permitted to leave the school site) we found the time available to actually film was limited. Therefore, this left us with less choice in where and when we can film. This was the reason for the darker shots, which we had to edit and change the brightness of our footage. We have explained this in more detail here

http://sophiecomptona2mediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/using-final-cut-pro_22.html 

Due to all of these limitations hopefully you can understand better why some shots are not as clear as others or as could as they could be. For example the photo below, which with a wider availability of equipment and software and/or a wider choice of willing actors able to commit to more time and locations, we could have improved some footage and areas of our music videos.