Promotional video - Music Video

For this assignment, we were asked to look for found footage from pexels.com to edit together a music video with a song of our choice, using Adobe Premiere Pro as our editing software. I previously used Premiere when I was in my Media Arts class back in high school, but haven’t touched it since. So, it was very exciting to learn new things and re-learn processes with the updated version. 

Choosing the song for this assignment was pretty difficult, but I eventually landed on “Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens. This song was written for the movie “Call Me by Your Name” by Luca Guadagnino. I recently re-watched it and, because of the way the movie was filmed, I thought it was a great inspiration for this assignment. With the found footage, I wanted to make sure that I had a lot of nature shots (specifically in Italy) and shots of couples being together. If you’ve seen the movie, I think you will see the correlation. Once I found all of the footage I wanted, I took my media and edited the music video based on the lyrics and rhythm as much as possible. Because the movie was actually shot on film, I wanted to try and create a grain/noise over the footage to make it appear a little more film-like. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making it. 

Music video of “Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens from the film “call me by your name” by Luca Guadagnino, created on Adobe Premier Pro with found footage collected from Pexels.com