A Complicated Song - ID# 444
York
Music Video
Entry Description
Weird Al's "A Complicated Song", a parody of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated", takes us through the humorously unfortunate events of an unlucky guy's life.
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/28 2:55 pm - The first shot had more focus on the background than the foreground. Love the montage of the pizza shots at the start. Great pacing between the pizza/toilet shots at home vs the skatepark. Loved that you included skaters in the skatepark shots. The video made me hungry despite the lyrics!! haha
- 4/6 1:20 pm - Excellent song choice, the story is all laid out for you. Well executed! The props and costumes were perfect. The edit was great, well-paced, interesting, and seamless. If you have light kits available you might have brightened up some of the shots and used a shallower depth of field. Very well done!
- 2/22 8:43 am - Incredible stack of pizzas! Good job using humor to tell a story and keep it interesting. Good variety of footage. I like how you used the live performance combined with the story telling. I can tell lots of effort went into creating the video. Good camera movement but one suggestion would be to get more depth of field in some of your shots.
Judge 1
Positives: The story is beautifully told. Very funny and filled with solid performances.
Improvements: Pay closer attention to the framing of subjects.Make sure the compositing looks seamless. If you can't get it right, please come up with another solution.
Judge 2
Positives: Epic production. A lot of setups and creative use of one location. Great job illustrating the story of the lyrics of the song. The plot and character development were super clear. The editing was solid as well. Best of all, it looked like the principal actor was having a lot of fun.
Improvements: The camera work could have been improved. It looked like all available lighting, with some focus issues. Staging of the actors could have been better too. On some shots, the lead actor was blocking the drummer.
Judge 3
Positives: good song choice. If you're making a silly video it should be for a silly song most of the time. Visual were easy to understand and there was a sense of fun throughout.
Improvements: visuals were maybe too easy to understand. There's something to be said for literal interpretations of song lyrics but that's only going to be interesting for so long. something this intentionally wacky can only keep interest for a minute or so. It's a hard thing to keep up for a few minutes.
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