The Looking Glass

At the beginning of this project, while compiling all the tasks we would have to undertake, we decided to divide the roles into more manageable areas, rather than have all of us trying to do the same thing. I was… Continue Reading →

Soon I’ll be writing my final blog post for this course, which is the compulsory reflection on my finished work, but before I do that I wanted to do a shorter reflection on this course itself. I came into this… Continue Reading →

After our class looking at Dawn Shadforths worked I perused some of her other videos, and I became intrigued by her work with Florence and the Machine, which led down a steady path of internet perusing through most of her… Continue Reading →

One of the music video directors we took a look at during class was Dawn Shadforth, specifically her work on Kylie Minogues video ‘Cant Get You Out of My Head’ and the Goldfrapp song ‘Number 1’. The Kylie Minogue music… Continue Reading →

Going into this course I was excited to learn some new skills, and I can definitely say I’ve grown as a media maker, enhanced my skills, learned some new techniques, and while I didn’t do them myself I have learned… Continue Reading →

This blog post won’t be so much a reflection as a speculation, since I had to miss the class on filming live musicians, which was very frustrating for me. I want to look at it from two perspectives, one is… Continue Reading →

During the fine cut presentations in class there was discussion around one particular groups music video, which had taken a more strictly narrative approach to their project. They had a loose storyline, sequential scenes and a plot. There was another… Continue Reading →

The sheer amount of variety of styles and effects used in the music videos made in this class has been astounding, and I’m so glad to have been exposed to so many different techniques that have inspired me. Seeing people… Continue Reading →

So in a previous blog post I talked about how for Project Brief Two I analysed the music video for Mumford and Sons song ‘Hopeless Wanderer’. After seeing others presentations I kind of wish I had picked a different video…. Continue Reading →

For Project Brief Two we were required to analyse a music video of our choice to look at how it was made, how it is influence by or has influenced other works and several other aspects of the music video…. Continue Reading →