I received some verbal feedback from peers whilst editing who felt the video looked extremely amateur, something we agreed comes down to the camera quality especially. The school cameras aren't the best at filming in any low-lighting, something I already knew from my AS project but thought could be edited in post - which it seems is quite difficult. Additionally, the overall quality is quite low anyway.
By no means am I suggesting the images and direction I took with the cameras is low quality, I am referring mainly to the overall quality of the images, they're not high definition. This is not an issue for some psychedelic and indie artists however, the Rat Boy videos I covered in the past notably don't use the highest definition of cameras. In fact, Django Django and Tame Impala actively choose to make some of their videos low quality, as seen below in Wor and Half Full Glass.
This is likely done as a means of undermining music video convention which seems to suggest success in the high quality of some footage. With this in mind, I acknowledge that some psychedelic elements can be found in undermining convention in this way, it clearly places more focus on artist capability and even suits the indie aesthetic the artists seem to go for. For this reason I believe that the feedback from my peers is perfectly valid but isn't too much of a concern, however I believe I could change the aspect ratio as a means of emulating a high quality of camera.
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