Making cover video for the song “Rainism” required more efforts and more time than I expected, but it was a fun and meaningful experience for me and I enjoyed it very much. First we spent a long time making song choice decision as Rain has so many good songs. And then we discussed on how to film, how to dance, how to sing and how to edit the video. We did all these discussions even before we start shooting. This made me realize that the final work that artists (K-pop stars) present to us can be just one of their designs that they think is the best within so many possibilities. Especially in such a competitive market as K-pop, their work need to be not only good, but also unique and quickly attract the audience, which make it even harder.
In the process of doing this cover, we spent a lot of time combining different members’ ideas. In terms of K-pop stars, especially for group artists, I can not imagine how many times they need to have this kind of discussion and how much effort they need put in to do a thing well as a team. Speaking of teamwork, I really appreciate my great group members. They are responsible, patient, and talented. I think we make up each other’s shortcoming therefore to present a nice and complete work. And so does the K-pop artists. We never know how many difficulties they need to overcome behind the scene, in terms of directing, shooting, film editing… When I was editing the video, I found it hard to reach my expectation. And I realized that editing is really an important part to polish and deliver the concept of music video to the audience.
At last, I want to show my respect to all the hard work that all the art workers have done, they are awesome.
Ke Dai