What makes a good music video Level 4

Level 4 Criteria 32-40 marks

Level 4The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
 • shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot sizes and close attention to mise en scene

• editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects

• recording and editing sound with images appropriately.


Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident.

This is a copy of the mark scheme for a level four music video which we are aiming for. By looking at this mark scheme we need to have a variety of shots which I strongly believe we have as we have filmed in many different locations which I think is the best thing about our task so far as it has given us a lot of footage to work with. We have also included a variety of shots in terms of framing. We have added close ups and far away shots but could maybe add even more. By achieving the other points we need to get feedback from other people to see what they think about the video so far and see how we can improve even more as we are very keen to achieve level four.

I have found some A grade music videos to see how they have reached level four to compare ours.

Out of all the videos I watched, this was my favourite. I really liked it because it involved narrative which had a lot of humour which is risky in a music video. However it is quite different to ours as ours is performance based which only has one solo artist but I also liked the editing and effects they have used which we could learn from.