My group didn’t have many issues during the
pre-production, as we all liked the song that we chose and were all extremely
excited to make a music video to it. We used to pre-production effectively and
we finished our planning really quickly so this gave us more time to shoot. The
first media lesson of term 4 we already knew which song we wanted to do as we
discussed it over the holidays and we did the planning e.g. shot list in our
time so that we could start as soon as possible. We used our time effectively
and this was great as we didn’t need to use any time outside of class to film
so we could use this time to edit, we finished all our shots in the class time
provided and everyone knew what they needed to do. We all had different
characters to play so everyone was responsible for knowing what they needed to
say and film. Compared to the previous film noir task I used my time a lot more
efficiently and also by having the planning finished by the 2nd
lesson and going straight into filming gave us a lot more time so that we
didn’t feel rushed.
Teamwork during
Production and Post-Production:
We decided who was going to be what
character and made sure that the same person being another character wasn’t in
the shot before or after so that there was a variety. Everyone in my group had
their own shot list to follow so we were all responsible for our own shots
which made things run a lot smoother because everyone knew what they had to do
and not worry about if someone had forgotten something or was away. We were all
very organised throughout this whole task, we were all present majority of
lessons, Tilly was away for a couple but always made sure that her shots were
completed before the date that we set so we could complete our editing. The
only issue that our group experienced was that one day we accidently used a G11
camera when we needed a G12 or larger because we were shooting on 1280 x 720,
this wasn’t a large set back but a couple of our shots were a bit rushed
because we needed to reshoot in the same lesson. We shot all our shots that
were included in the shot list.
Discuss your individual feelings about
the Music Video Task:
I’m happy with how the final music video
turned out but I feel the green screen doesn’t make the film look as good as it
could have. I wouldn’t change how the music video looks because it does look
how we pictured it from the beginning so we are all happy with the outcome. If
we could do the project again I would record more of the characters singing
instead of so many “bloopers” which was the look we were going for but maybe
with a couple more singing scenes it could have made it a bit more interesting.
It was most definitely easier to plan, film and edit this project than the
previous task as I just found working with the group I had this time was so
much easier to organise things with and also the reason why we didn’t feel
rushed was because we stayed organised the entire time of this project. The
treatment basically describes the final outcome, which shows that my group had
the same film playing their head the entire time. My blog was updated 3 times a
week so I think it adequately shows what my group has been doing for the past 5
weeks. I enjoyed this task a lot more than the previous one and hopefully we
can make another music video in the near future.
