Muse - Apocalypse Please (Saving Private Ryan)

A music video I made for coursework. Almost all of the cuts were my doing, as opposed to simply how it goes in the film. I synced up some vocals, explosions with cymbals, machine gun fire with drum fills. A bit to clever for its own good really.

And sorry about the blank ending, my lecturer didn't rip it properly.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Saving
• Private
• Ryan
• Muse
• Apocalypse
• Please
• Matt
• Matthew
• Bellamy
• Chris
• Christopher
• Wolstenholme
• Dom
• Dominic
• Howard

[EmpathosProductions]

Nicely done. 2:06 - end is really solid, IMO. I like how you used the white-out cuts, just need a bit more tweaking to get it just right. I'm thinking faster cuts, with no lingering whiteness. From my experience, in a high action flashback context, fast white cuts seem to work best, or just straight up flashes of the scene. But it's your video, ultimately.  You're the artist, and you've done well. Keep it up! - a video editor

[Nogli]

@EmpathosProductions Thanks a lot! I'm well aware of the problem with cuts, that it shouldn't have cut to black, and the lingering white. Both of which weren't supposed to be there in the first place, the first as I hadn't ripped enough of that clip, so had to slow it down unbearably, so I had to make it do something, anything! And the white was an accident that I stupidly didn't realize was there until it was too late. Perhaps had I had longer on the computers, it might have never happened!

[Nogli]

The course was BTEC Music Technology. I told the lecturer about the mistakes, even including a photograph of some cute kittens in the essay. Whether it was due to the rest being of enough quality, him understanding what I wanted to achieve or just calmed by the kittens, I got a distinction in the end. I'm now doing a degree in Music Journalism, which calls for more video editing work. Depending on context, editing like this violently can be used for entertainment, perhaps even comedic reasons.

[LuciusMare]

I applaud, this is really well done, although there are some parts where the music does not fit the background, generally it is just great.

[Nogli]

@LuciusMare Thank you. And you are right, there are some parts that don't fit. We were only able to cut out around ten minutes of the film from our DVDs because of time constraints. They were select parts that I picked out that had explosions and gun fire which fit to the music, and machine gun fire next to drum fills etc. With these taken away, I was very limited, so I had to arrange it as fittingly as possible. It didn't work so well, but unfortunately it had to do. Bugger!

[ledsteffan]

this video is amazing.....WOW

[slipknotmaggot4eva1]

@dmaccballer

You mean Tom Hanks and a bucketload of extras with prosthetic limbs?

[TheAlienFan]

Amazing video mate : )

[chiminopp]

graet video¡