Editing in Music Videos (Foo Fighters Animatic)

Since the music industry and the film industry are two somewhat different businesses, we've been looking into how the two differentiate in their filmmaking - particularly in their editing. What we have found thus  far is that with music videos, the pace is significantly faster. It sets to the pace of the music rather than the situation, like with Foo Fighters 'Pretender', the editing is paced to the beat the music is set to.

Firstly we had to watch the video to 'Pretender' and draw the storyboard for the different shots within the first forty seconds. We drew what the shot consisted of, as well as write down how long the shot was and what type of shot it was and if there were any movements in it. Secondly we took pictures of each shot on the storyboard and uploaded them onto the mac computers onto desktop, then onto Premiere Pro. After this we got the original video and put that into Premiere Pro. After this we then made sure that the original was in the edited video, I put mine in the bottom right hand corner so that the storyboard could be seen beside it. Lastly we edited the storyboard into the video so they ran alongside each other. 

Experimenting with the music video 'Pretender' from Foo Fighters, we discovered just how fast the pacing of the editing is.  Within the animatic, I have found that there twenty one shots in the first forty seconds of 'Pretender', making it approximately one shot per two seconds. This exercise also enabled us to use the Premiere Pro program and practice with the edits.

Additionally, with a music video, the there are significantly more angles used with one 'scene'. With 'Pretender', there are over ten different camera angles, shots and movements on Dave Grohl in the first forty seconds alone.