Post by marliz. on Sept 27, 2018 22:32:39 GMT
So i've been watching the video some more times and trying to figure out why everyone loves it so much.
Honestly I think from a video-editor point of view there are just some "small" things in this video that bother me and that's what makes me not like it as much.
When I watched the video for the first time I didn't realize she wouldn't be in Iceland to shoot it. But the green screen shots are in fact quite obvious. At 0:30 for example her hair is obviously cut off. At 1:12 the background is just a still frame while Avril's camera angle keeps moving around. Those things really trigger me, also because it's such an easy fix as well.
Then there's other small things like at the zoom out shot at 0:54 where her playbacking doesn't match the singing at all.
Those things ruin the authenticity of the video for me. It just makes you think like.. How do you want to send out such a personal and meaningful message, and then 'fake' the music video.
That's kind of contradictory if you ask me.
To continue on the WYWH comparison: that music video had a basic concept as well, but it feels so much more genuine to me which is why I prefer that one.
I don't mind the basic concept of this video at all. It's good, it's fine. Sometimes less is more and it can work. Except for this video it somehow doesn't to me. Something is just missing at the end. A little twist, a little surprise.
On a positive note, I thought Avril looked beautiful. The underwater shots were beautiful. Except the editing of those shots were yet again questionable to me. Why all the colours? Why all the fake light flares? It's so out of place compared to the natural and environmental base of the video.
It's not a bad video. It's just not what I was hoping for. I'm not hating, I'm not complaining. Just expressing how I feel about it and why I do.
Maybe some of you will learn to understand that other opinions exist as well without being a 'hater' or whatever. I still love Avril to death and I'm here for her music and her performances and personality and so much more. One music video isn't gonna change that lol.
Honestly I think from a video-editor point of view there are just some "small" things in this video that bother me and that's what makes me not like it as much.
When I watched the video for the first time I didn't realize she wouldn't be in Iceland to shoot it. But the green screen shots are in fact quite obvious. At 0:30 for example her hair is obviously cut off. At 1:12 the background is just a still frame while Avril's camera angle keeps moving around. Those things really trigger me, also because it's such an easy fix as well.
Then there's other small things like at the zoom out shot at 0:54 where her playbacking doesn't match the singing at all.
Those things ruin the authenticity of the video for me. It just makes you think like.. How do you want to send out such a personal and meaningful message, and then 'fake' the music video.
That's kind of contradictory if you ask me.
To continue on the WYWH comparison: that music video had a basic concept as well, but it feels so much more genuine to me which is why I prefer that one.
I don't mind the basic concept of this video at all. It's good, it's fine. Sometimes less is more and it can work. Except for this video it somehow doesn't to me. Something is just missing at the end. A little twist, a little surprise.
On a positive note, I thought Avril looked beautiful. The underwater shots were beautiful. Except the editing of those shots were yet again questionable to me. Why all the colours? Why all the fake light flares? It's so out of place compared to the natural and environmental base of the video.
It's not a bad video. It's just not what I was hoping for. I'm not hating, I'm not complaining. Just expressing how I feel about it and why I do.
Maybe some of you will learn to understand that other opinions exist as well without being a 'hater' or whatever. I still love Avril to death and I'm here for her music and her performances and personality and so much more. One music video isn't gonna change that lol.