Contemporary Music Video Edits - Chase and Status and One Direction.

In this task I tried to count the number of edits in two music videos on being similar to ours, one being very different from ours but both being fairly mainstream and contemporary. the first song was:
 'Chase and Status - Count on Me'
This song had approximately 214 cuts which is fairly average for songs in this pace. This is because in order to keep the video the same pace as the music you have to make sure the cuts are frequent and to the beat. Our video also uses this technique of making the video a similar pace to the music as makes it look more natural and flowing. The pace in each of these songs changes from slow to fast, so there needs to be less cuts during the slow section and more during the fast sections.

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The next song we done was: One Direction - Little Things

In this video we estimated that the video had 101 edits which is a lot less than the other video we analysed and this is because the genre of music is different and is quite slow which is quite similar to the speed of the video that we are going for although our song is slightly quicker. This song has quite a lot of cuts for this speed of song and this is because most of the song is performance based and because they are a band they cut regularly to different members of the band singing various parts of the song. Ours is not like this as we have only one person performing who also has the narrative based around them which will mean that we are more likely to have less cuts as we will have less things to cut too.