2020 Film Reel

Story

The basic view I wanted people to get from my Film Reel is that I do comical yet interesting films. Most of my films I create are for the laugh, but I enjoy going into depth with some of my work. Most of the films I have created are also very different in story and structure, editing them together made them connect more as films.

As an Editor

The film reel has good transitions and a good pace to it. It constantly keeps you engaged for the entire duration of the film. The clips line up with the music very well and swap over to different clips with ease. In other parts I think the camera is quite good in most shots, same with lighting. Sound was a bit of an issue because we had music in the other videos. This caused the music to play while the actors were talking and made it weird to hear two types of music played at the same time.

Pros and Cons

The reel did what it was intended to. It showed who I was as an editor and shows my work so far with an engaging and comedic tone. When looking back onto the reel though, I did have some issues with my work. The sound in some of the clips I used with dialogue used music which overlapped with the music in the reel. This caused some viewers to disconnect from the reel.

The Future

One thing I would like to do in the future is create more films that can support the feel I am trying to accomplish in this reel.  With this I can have a stronger and more engaging reel with more content to make potential clients be interested in my work.

The Reel

AJR 100 Bad Days | Review

Story

The story seems very weird and seems to have a hidden meaning. But I think the video is trying to look like some sort of fever dream, or that sort of aesthetic. It gives you an uncomfortable visual aspect too. It gives a lot of edited scenes of people missing parts of their body by using a green screen. It also shows repeated scenery and edits. It was overall eye catching and enjoyable.

Knowledge

The video is mostly consisted of high edits using green screens and special effects. I think this good good eye catching deal is what I want to go for in my video, at least as the editor of the team. I do like also the serious feel to it which is what we will be applying to our music video. This can be implemented by using the dark scenes when the party goes wrong. 

Quality

The creator of this video did a great job with the video, and it's hard to find flaws with the product. I enjoyed the edits and scenery they presented and the lip sync was pretty good. I think some improvements could be an easier to follow story, if there even was one to begin with. The music video just sort of followed the lyrics in a loose way, it made it a bit hard to understand. But that made it seemed like they were missing or broken which the song is about bad days, so maybe that was a point to it.

Conclusion

The music video is a great product and I think that AJR did a great job creating it. It was a bit hard to follow story but I sort of think that was the point. The actors were mostly broken and looked dismembered which came from good editing. This gave the feel of the people being broken which worked well with them talking about bad days and bad events. The lip sync was good and the look of it was good too, it sort of made me think of a fever dream. So it was a good video, and I think our music video will be good too.