This is our finished music video to Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 by Pink Floyd. I think it's quite good seeing as we only had two weeks to make it and therefore couldn't spend a lot of time on planning, filming or editing. We decided to include lots of different things in our video and have many different scenes rather than a story as we felt this went better with the songs theme of rebellion in school. We showed lyrics drawn on a whiteboard as this contrasted with the words 'we don't need no education' and the fact that it was written on a school whiteboard, used to educate. We also showed 'we don't need no thought control.' on a newspaper being read by a student in a teachers office as we felt this incorporated a lot of different messages into one shot. First rebellion as the student is sitting in a teachers office which wouldn't normally be allowed and also a political message of how the newspapers propaganda could be seen as 'thought control.' We also had some scenes that were quite iconic for schools, such as the long school corridor, the stage and the steps.
We used a few different editing techniques in the video such as double time with the student writing on the blackboard in the beginning and cutting to the beat, which can be seen at around 0:53 where it flashes black on the word 'wall' and after this when the pictures flash up in time to the beat. We also used a cross over effect at 0:48 where there is a shot of a pupil throwing paper at the camera with another shot layered over school books and paper.
I think that this exercise helped a lot as it improved my ability to think fast about what different shots to take and what looked good on screen. It also helped with my understanding of using Final Cut Pro as we tested out a lot of effects that we hadn't previously looked at before.
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