I chose to watch a set from the Ultra Music Festival. I was editing a video for a dj and he suggested I watch this to get inspiration for his promotion video.
Ultra Music Festival Showtek Set
I think this entire video relies on editing. The quick cuts and establishing shots really set the festival up. In order to be interested and enjoy this video you need to see all different angles frequently or the viewer would probably just lose interest. When the beat and sounds builds up or drops they cut to better more interesting shots and the video pace seems to speed up. Composition varies from singling out people to larger group shots, to close ups of the DJ. There is always a lot of movement though, people are constantly moving, jumping, dancing, and the quick cut shots correlate with this fast movement. The cuts are obvious as it goes from an up close of a girl to a crowd shot. I think for this genre you need to have variety or people would get bored. With slower cuts of the same shots people would tune out because all they have to focus on then in the music, and they've heard the music set before. The reason they watch festival sets, is for shots of the crowd and the dj.
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