Lily Jones Preliminary Evaluation

Pre-Production

To prepare for making our Preliminary Music Video to Busted 'What I go to school for', we watched the original video for 1 minute 14 seconds, we then had to create a story board for each individual shot, which we drew out on to A3 paper to help us when shooting. We made a prop and cast list which would indicate who would play each role, and what we needed to create realism with in the video. We then had to create a risk assessment for the video to ensure we could record in safety, We had to assess the safety precautions we would need to apply, and at which parts of the video e.g. Jumping. We divided the jobs between our group, so we were finished on schedule, in time to record the video.

We also practiced lip syncing and editing so we could familiarise ourself with the process, this came in useful when editing.

Production

Our class split into two groups to save time, so we could record interior and exterior shots. I directed for the exterior shots which i found very useful as i feel it will benefit me when recording my video. I had to set up the positions of the cameras, we did this by watching the different clips of the video on a laptop, which i found more useful than using the storyboard, as we could create more specific camera angles and actions in order to look as similar to Busted's as possible. By working together as a team we managed to finish in one lesson which was really surprising, and most of the shots only took one attempt. The only problem we encoutered was that we did not have enough extra's to fill the background, as they did in Busted's original Video, we compromised however, and brought our extras forward to give the impression we had more of them. The interior group however were slightly delayed, so the next lesson we helped them to finish off their video by acting as extras. Because we were joining the two groups (interior and exterior) together we found lots of continuity errors.

Post Production

We editted the video using a Macbook, however we had trouble uploading the video because the firewire cable would not fit. We then had to upload the clips using a portable hard drive, because I have used iMovie before i was familiar with the functions, so found editting fairly easy. We had to compromise with the editing as some clips we could not recreate so to keep our lip syncing precise we had to crop out part of the instrumental in the introduction, however this has worked well. I found lip syncing the hardest part of the editing as you had to concentrate in order to work out which clip needed to go in at which time. We took turns with the editing so that we could all get used to the program and put our ideas into it. We found the editing the most time consuming as in order to create an effective end product you have to be very precise, so when we come to making our music video, we will need to schedule a fair amount of time for editing.

busted comments

I enjoyed making the busted preliminary, because it gives us an insight of the amount of work we have ahead of us, not to mention the amount of editing we have to put together.

I think everyone worked well as a team, and produce a decent looking video, it’s just a shame that the cast of the video is split in two halves. 

Busted Preliminary

During post production all of the editing was done on a MacBook Pro. It was beneficial to have our own equipment because it allowed us to continue editing away from college. We did have trouble uploading the video to the computer because of an incompatible firewire cable, so we had to use a different Mac to export the video files onto a removable hard drive. In the future, we plan on using a different camera which will be able to connect straight to the MacBook.
After the files were imported to computer we all decided on which bit we wanted to edit in order to split the work equally. I had to familiarise myself with iMovie as it had been months since I last used it, but this only took several minutes. Adjusting the clips to fit the song proved to be the most difficult as the footage we had was not exact to the original video, however we cropped out small clips in order for the music to match the lip syncing.
I think that when it comes to making our music video, we want to use minimal lip syncing as it applies to a much more of a pop audience rather than an indie audience. This preliminary has helped me learn and appreciate the amount of work and precision that goes into making a music video.

Pre - Production

During pre-production we did a number of things to prepare for filming. Some of us made a proplist, which helped remind us what needs to be in each shot, for example guitars, costumes, class room equipment ect in order for us to have our video look like the original version as much as possible.

We had to prepare a risk assessment before we film anything in order to keep ourselves from getting hurt.

Risk Assessment:

We complied a storyboard between us so that we knew exactly what we had to film. The storyboard also helped when it came to editing the clips together.

Storyboard:

Before we started filming, we practiced our lip-syncing. We videoed ourselves lip syncing, then watched it back to see how we got on and how we could improve.

Lip syncing practice