Student Made Music Video

This is a video we were shown in class. It is a student made video for the song 'Hot n' Cold' by Katie Perry. It was made by A-Level students in an all girls school in London.

This video looks very professional and it is clear that a good location scout has been around looking for areas to film. That is one of the features that work best for the video. All of the locations look realistic and don't have the feeling that they were just some classroom found at the last minute that looked 'okay', but that it had been thought about carefully.

Careful attention has also been used to make sure that the characters look the part. The costumes are brilliant. Especially the scenes with the girl in the mental hospital. The attention to detail is flawless and the make-up is a brilliant touch.

The video is kept interesting by the constantly changing camera angles and locations. It is quickly cut and keeping to the rhythm. There are in total nine different camera angles shot over five locations, this adds a great depth to the video. Also, all of the locations (apart from, in my opinion the classroom) have exceptional lighting.

The video is also greatly helped by the fact that the video itself has an amazing actress to play the part of the main singer. She doesn't hold back which makes the lip synching look professional which is really the finishing touch.

In some ways the video is similar to the real video in the way that it has taken place over several locations with many different outfits and both contain a seemingly love-struck girl.

The real video can be found here (I would embed it but embedding is disabled for this video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkaf9PdlNM