I aimed to create an illustrative/performative music video for the song Dead Skunk by Loudon Wainwright III. Originally, I was working in a group of 3 making a video for Real Men by Mitski. I found real men very difficult to edit for since the beat is very random at times and has a strange timing, and as a group we were missing a lot of footage. what footage we already had was low quality, short and some clips had no correlation to others. We had a week to edit and only received half the footage from another member of the group on Thursday, significantly reducing the amount of time we had to complete the project. 
As a group, we decided to do separate videos over the weekend. 2 days for filming and editing a music video was definitely a crunch for time, especially working by myself and with no teachers/more experienced figure to help out. 
All things considered, I think it came out pretty well. we filmed on roads and backstreets, particularly more dishevelled ones to try and emulate the roadkill theme of the song. one of my more favourite shots is the one with Ashton next to the car, and the skunk lodged under the wheel. the camera is handheld and a little shakey, but nothing too noticeable. 
most of my issues came from the editing side of things, for example, the low quality was a result of not rendering my video before exporting. At the time I didn't know this was the case and, as a result, was unable to fix it before submitting. the quality also effected the colour correction, since its harder to notice when the video is like 8 pixels total. some of the lip syncing is lightly off, you can definitely tell at points. I believe that if id had the full week to edit these mistakes wouldn't have made it to the final version. 
if I had more time I probably would've attempted more editing techniques, like superimposition. I didn't try to add these due to time constraints and worrying that I wouldn't have it done in time for Monday. 
Through this project, I think I've developed my commitment and resilience to tasks. I find it hard to stay motivated to complete something, often giving up half way through or not putting effort in. I can confidently say that when I was trying to hurriedly slap things together into a music video, I was consistently putting in effort and saw it through to the end. I didn't really get a chance to develop technical skills further, since I was restricted in what I could add in the time given. 

Feedback to my music video has been mostly positive. people seem to like the low quality which was quite lucky on my part. feedback on improvements I could make has only been about the bad lip-syncing and colour correction (which is  there you just cant really tell)

in this project I've learnt many things, mainly to render my videos before exporting, but also to always ensure I'm in class when group work is planned, avoiding miscommunication and gaps in understanding. This is going to help me going forward as i'll always have enough time to execute my ideas fully, as well as having members of my group there to help aid the production and planning.