A2 Music Video- Preliminary task evaluation
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Maddison Page and Sascha Richards chose to recreate the music video for "Foundations" by Kate Nash for their preliminary task. They aimed to match each shot exactly to get experience with directing, filming, and editing techniques. Some shots like prop shots were easy, while shots involving timing like a bowling ball knocking over shoes took many attempts. Lip syncing was challenging to match the camera angles and facial expressions used in the original video. The hardest shot to recreate involved continuously moving props in sync with editing and the song, which took significant time. Overall the task provided good practice, but they learned they should have more strictly followed their storyboard to better match all shots.
A2 Music Video- Preliminary task evaluation
- 1. Maddison Page PRELIMINARY TASK RECREATE A MUSIC VIDEO AND LIP SYNCING TASK
- 2. Our preliminary task consisted of Sascha Richards and I to recreate a music video of an artist of our choice and recreate it shot for shot. We also had to incorporate lip syncing into our task. We found the task to be fun to complete as we chose a very energetic song and video to reproduce we had to be very experimental with our directing and filming skills. This task helped us expand our film making skills as I have previously mentioned we used new techniques we had never used before and hopefully we will be able to use these skills in producing our actual music video. We chose the song Foundations by Kate Nash as it is established to be a quirky music video and we found that we wanted our preliminary task to be more difficult to create so we would have the knowledge later on in our own production process. INTRODUCTION
- 3. This shot was the first shot of both music videos so we had to replica the shot exactly to make sure our preliminary video flowed like the original. We found that we had to cut each shot on the beat of the track to make it flow fluently with the first few seconds. With the prop shots it was quite easy as we only had to film a still prop for a few minutes. But for shots like the bowling ball knocking over the shoes we found we had to take many shots to get the angles right as we wanted to match shot for shot.
- 4. When it came to the lip- syncing section of the task we found we had to constantly compare our work with the actual music video, due to the camera shots. In Kate Nash’s music video we found the camera cut off her faces at some points so we had to make sure our shots matched hers. We also had to make sure the actors in the video mirrored her body language and tried to mirror her facial expressions.
- 5. We found trying to match the first shot of lip syncing for the beginning of the music video was hard as we had to also mirror Kate Nash’s movements and actions. But what went to our advantage was that the actress knew all the lyrics to the song so we were able to take a continuous shot of her lip-syncing and we were able to use these throughout the task and it made the video consistent throughout.
- 6. Shots like this one took some creativity to re-create as we had dispose the use of a tripod and film this free hand and place the camera on the floor to keep the shot steady. However we found this shot one of the easiest to replicate due to the fact we just had to choreograph the actresses feet movement. It was also quite humorous and fun as we were able to take many shots and experiment.
- 7. This part of the preliminary task was the hardest to recreate as we were unable to film this shot. This shot consisted of continually taking pictures and moving the props a little at a time. The editing needed for this shot took the majority of our time as we had to make sure the sequence was in sync with the original video but also we had to keep it in time with the original video and matched the lyrics.
- 8. Overall I found that our preliminary task was good as we matched the majority of our shots with the original shots. The only problems we encountered was that we didn’t match all of the camera angles accurately or we misinterpreted some of the shots. If we could recreate the preliminary task I would make sure we followed our story board to the word so we could make sure all of the shots matched. OVERALL