4 Jul 2013

Diary Of A Pregnant Dad ★★★☆☆



Review of 'Diary Of A Pregnant Dad' which can be found here on YouTube

Length: 03:57
Written & directed by Joseph Monahan & Callum Smith
Genre: Music Video
Date: 2012
Rating: ★★★

Logline: Music video for 4-Eyez (feat. Callum Smith)

This is a fun little ditty, which is playful and humorous. Whether this is an amateur musician trying to make it pro or someone just mucking about, is another question. The level of audio equipment being used tells us that this guy means business but the easy listening style and tone of the music means it's hard to take this very seriously. 4-Eyes does however come off as a multi-skilled artist as we see him take the helm and pretty much do all of the instruments, singing and probably everything else too. 

Good quality video equipment gives us a clean and crisp look on screen with nice bright colouring and good lighting. But mimicking the in house music arrangement, which sounds close to a one hit wonder charity single, there's also a homemade feel to the video as well with the photo stills swiping across the screen like it's been created by any bog-standard iPhoto or iMovie app. (added to by the home video style sequence of course) Editing does well to keep our eyes busy with a decent selection of shots being used along side including a nice opening sequence although it looks like they may have been running out of ideas by the time they start filming the pet dog. 

There's an attempt to follow the narrative of the lyrics in a visual manner but this errs on the side of being just a bit too long (guitar solo for example) and runs into a bit of unnecessary repetition to fill in the time. 

Best Bit: Highlighting 4-Eyez's varying skills.

Worst Bit: Naff tune with cringeworthy lyrics.

Final thought: Wonder if that tiny square of egg boxes on the wall is really doing anything or is just another homemade attempt to make the room look like a professional studio?

Read a condensed review of this film on Twitter here.

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