Lyrics and Visuals Practice Task

In this task we were given lyrics to a song that most of us were not familiar with. The task was then to film footage to match to the lyrics so that the end result would be our own music video. We were put in a group and told to go out and film as much footage as we could, which turned out to be actually very fun as we were able to be as creative and imaginative as we wanted whist filming what we thought would match the lyrics. After filming all the different clips we were all told to experiment on final cut pro and order the clips in any sequence and way we wanted. This was very interesting as even though we all had the same footage, all of our music videos were considerably different which showed we had different ways of how we thought the music video should look. The point of this task was to see what footage we would be able to come up with in a given time and also to see how our skills at editing were like. I found this task particularly useful as I picked up some new editing techniques which I did not previously know which will come in handy during the actual coursework task.