Foo Fighters "The Pretender"

I have watched Foo Fighters' music video ("The Pretender") to learn about the pace of editing a music video. While watching it, I created a 45 second storyboard. By doing this, I realised that I'll have to film many shots of one particular action to make it interesting to watch. "The Pretender" changed pace as the song changed tempo which made it engaging to watch. By having many shots I can vary the pace of editing from slow to fast depending on the music track. Also, these individual shots will have to vary in type and movement- at the beginning of "The Pretender" there were wide/establishing shots with little change in angle and movement, many of these shots lasted 2/3 seconds. However as the song progressed in pace, there were fast tracking shots with a mix of high and low angles that lasted less than one second. There was also a variety of close ups of the band members and the instruments.

Editing the music video will be different to the thriller in several ways. Firstly, the thriller had more shots that lasted longer than 2 seconds because of dialogue or for dramatic effect. The music video will have many shots per second which would not have been particularly suitable for my thriller opening. Certain close ups of the band members/instruments in the music video was also not necessary in my thriller.





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