Test shots with Angle(Harris) + Wretch 23(Shaq)

Our lead singer and the main artist on this song, Angle(Harris) and featuring Wretch 23, i thought of testing their lip syncing/singing and with that to record some test shots. Due to these test shots, i have learnt many things to look out for whilst, producing and recording shots, overall it has been very successful with me gaining knowledge on how to gain the best possible result on the final music video.

In many music videos they have informal endings or leave at the point of something gone wrong in a video or even some bloopers, this kind of footage engages the audience making them feel closer to artist, such as getting some back stage access to the star. In this clip it is performed by Wretch 23, just a simple dance and then a point to the camera. Even something this simple could be used in the ending to the final music video.

 

This shot is something that could represent the lyrics, whilst previously going through troubles and issues- represented within parts of the lyrics. Now the star/artist is successful, living the dream and people/fans looking up to him and so as a possible transition shot, this could be the camera representing the people/fans who look up to him and the artist just walking down the street. Simple but yet again, very effective in its purpose. Issues faced were the lighting, looking up to the artist could means that the sky and other areas where there was light colours they turn white, really effecting the camera shot. In addition was the shaky camera, recorded by me, i understand what that this can be conquered with either additional accessories to the camera such as the tripod or the method of me holding the camera; i tried afterwards using this technique of elbows tucked in and camera has two arms and the body to stabilise on, i found this to be very helpful and effective.
This clip is with Ashad, a member of the group who is a backup to Angle and so thought to test him as well as testing the shots. In this clip the movement of the camera, personally i think is very good with the flow of the lyrics and the action of Ashad. This is something i hope to achieve in the recording for the final video, it will really add as the artist needs to perform and that this is shown but the camera also needs to add for an improvement to the overall video, bringing up the excitement expressed by the artist, this is achieved with clever movements of the camera, keeping with the rhythm, lyrics actions of the artist and overall keeping it in good pace. I feel this clip was a good example of what sort of camera movements could be added to the final video.

Another shot performed by Harris(Angle), this time in the park for some additional practise with lipsyncing and in terms of location this is probably not something we will be using in the final video, this is down to the genre the artist's and the song represent, with grime and rap as the main themes, this is not the ideal place, although it could possibly be used for a shot in the storyline part of the video. The only issue again, would have to be the lighting, as you can see it is not great and wouldn't look good in the final video and definitely does not look professional.


In this clip you can see the level of performance is very high, done by Shaq-Wretch 23, this is something we definitely aim to do in our final video, with him being the feature in the video, we will expect this level if not better and aim to do this throughout our final video. The lighting is much better then the other clips, understandable of why this is. In addition the location of this clip could be a location used in the final music video. Lastly the movement of the camera, is in line with the lyrics, rhythm and actions of the artist. As mentioned before something we will definitely doing and performing in our final music video.