Frazer's Favourite Music Video

This is more one of my favourite videos, rather than the favourite of mine, but it's simplicity is why I like it. The video to Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley was made in a single day. While this does not mean us four in this group will be able to create a quality video in a single day, neither do I expect this to happen, it does show that a decent video can be made in this short space of time. Another reason to why I like it is that as far as I'm aware it had a relatively low budget, showing that successful Music Videos can be made on a very limited budget, like ours will be.

As you can tell from this post, it's more about the details behind the video rather than techniques used inside of the video that makes me like it. Although, saying that, many of the various camera shots and angles used in the video to Never Gonna Give You Up are pleasing to the eye and work well, too.

Because this Official Youtube upload of the Music Video has disabled video embedding, the image below links to the video on the Youtube Website.

Steve's Favourite Music Video

I like this video due to both being a good song, and having very simple but effective animation which has a slightly nostalgic set drawings comprising the main animation. The animation is purely animated billboards (textured flat planes) to give the illusion of depth and a 3d environment. I especially like how it blends together between scenes/environments.

Stuart's Favourite Music Video

This is my favourite music video. I like it as it brings together band both a band performance with a video that tells a story. The video was inspired by all of the bands favourite films, including farmers and cowboys. The video is filmed in one long continuous take, progressing along the story on a guided camera track.

Student Video

We picked this video for many reasons; the first being that there is a whole band shot which is similar to the sort of thing we wish to accomplish.
Another being is the use of various camera angles that change throughout the video.

Moodboard

We selected these pictures as we think they will inspire us on our pitch for the music video.
Most of these pictures have various lighting effects which make it appealing to the music genre, as well as making it interesting for the audiences to watch.