The Greats: Tsai Ming-Liang & Lee Kang-Sheng

The Greats: Coppola

“The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.”   -Francis Ford Coppola

Assignment #3: Music Video

Select a song or a piece of music that you like and create a MUSIC VIDEO (MV) out of it. The ENTIRE song or piece of music must be used and the length of the video should not exceed 4 minutes.

You can choose to select visual materials from existing sources or shoot your own materials for your MV. For visual materials from other sources you should not use two (or more) consecutive shots from the original footage in editing.  All ‘cuts’ or ‘edit points’ in your MV should be created by you.

Be creative and use your imagination!

Rhythm, pacing and tone are important factors in this exercise. Try to ‘feel’ the rhythm or tempo of the music and explore its emotional potentials and possibilities. Use your intuition!

Visual materials can be taken from any source, but the completed work should show a meaningful structuring of images and a flow of tempo created through the editing.

Each student will work independently in the choice of music and visual materials. 

*Watch some MUSIC VIDEOS HERE

DUE DATE: March 23, 2016

GRADE: 20%

 

The Greats – Thelma Schoonmaker

“You get to contribute so significantly in the editing room because you shape the movie and the performances.” 

-Thelma Schoonmaker