OURS
I put up the original music video up awhile ago and when looking into the origin of the video, i find it is hard to tell whether it is the official video made for the song or whether it was made by someone else.
Putting the origin of the video aside i'll be making comparisons between our video and the "official" video.
Cinematography
The original uses videos of people square dancing to accompany the music. This works well at the beginning but soon gets stale and leaves the audience wondering if the next shot will be different and more interesting, which is something you never want your audience to feel. I am proud to say i think in terms of camera angling and position, that our video is better as it keeps up the pace and is more visually interesting.
Content
In the original it seems to be all based around the audience watching a dance routine. The square dancing is fun to watch as some of the moves performed seem intricate and impressive. This is all that happens though, dancing from beginning to end, which is a shame really because it is a fun dance to watch but they just shouldn't of had just that for the video. Once again i am confident in saying that ours has more visually interesting content. There is a vague story in the second verse, a wider range of scenery, singing and just a generally a larger range of activities taking place.
Verdict
Looking at the two videos with an entirely objective view it seems that our video seems to have more going for it, there are parts of the other video i do like such as the dancing and the gritty film reel effect but those aren't enough to make a video worth watching all the way through
I will be looking into whether the other video is official or fan-made
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