1. Final Edit Evaluation
My music video ‘Avicii Wake Me Up’ for Ian Goodyear is a video based on the actual music video itself, we used it as a
template and when I first watched the video, it reminded me a little bit of how these days, old people always say how the
younger generation is much more provocative and technologically advanced, and we are always on our phones and
listening to music. The reason why is because if you compare where the girl used to live (a simple, little house in the
country) with the people wearing old-fashioned clothing to the rave and the more modern-like clothes that she wears, you
can see it’s an obvious switch of generation.
Another thing is how she travelled around in a horse, which is how people in those days got around. This also hints that
maybe she is a time traveller. Passing from an old generation to a younger one. It would also explain why she says
'Somewhere we belong' when the little girl asked her where they are going. In the end they find people like themselves,
and they know that because they all have the same symbol on their body’s (two triangles) so we used this video and
changed it. We changed the beginning to a young boy waking up in a forest alone and he’s lost, he has ran away from
civilization because he feels he doesn’t fit in and he got bullied, we show this in a flashback when he’s trying to find his way
and comes across an old gym park where he used to go before he ran away, then we’re basically showing him just trying to
find his way about the forest like he has every other day since he left.
Eventually he comes across the symbols he too has on his neck, he finds these symbols on trees, on pieces of wood and it
confuses him because he’s never seen them before, the symbols bring him to an opening where he finds other people like
himself who all have these triangle symbols on their body’s, he feels safe and happy because he finally fits in somewhere
and he stays with them.
In my final edit, the whole music video is 3:34 minutes long, the music goes off and it shows the actors having fun basically
just shots that we didn’t use and of all the crew members so I thought that was a cute thing to add to the ending instead of
credits, as you get to see the actors and directors/camera people’s personality’s instead of just knowing that they’re
behind the camera or somewhere in the background, also the character.
I think the positives of my final edit is that it’s a lot stronger and more explained than my rough edit was, even though
things aren’t as in sync as they were in my rough edit, I now have more clips and it explains my point better.