Post-production

during Post-production some problems we had were that we found it difficult to match up lip syncing shots to the song we put over the top, and as a result a lot of shots had to be cut short, slowed down or sped up to fit this together properly, showing that we really should have refilmed some of the video, but due to the time constraints, we couldn't do this. a lot of work had been put into editing this video, with 2 lessons and countless hours outside lessons spent on editing (all taking turns) to come up with a final piece, another problem with editing is that we had to use the very basic video editing software on the macs, and therefore for my final piece i think i will have to find an alternative software to this.

in conclusion, i have found out that there are many difficulties in making music videos, and that it shall be very hard work to make my own final piece, however, i am very confident i can complete my final piece in time and to a standard that i am happy with, doing this task mhas also enlightened me on filming/ editing techniques which will benefit my final piece as a result.

Busted Remake

Our task was to remake the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of Busted's 'What i go to school for' music video, within 8 lessons, here is the finished product, and you will find the pre production, production & post production posted also on my blog.

Production

During the production of the video, as a class we decided to use the e-learning centre to film the classroom scenes, as it had the same sort of bland classroom as in the video, with enough lighting from windows to give us clear shots. We had to make sure that everyone was in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, with the camera rolling in the right place, which, although being a rigorous task I believe as a team we overcame all obstacles however, Some problems we faced were that scenes where the classroom was meant to be dark were hard to shoot, therefore reducing the quality of film that we could get, and also as mentioned above, it took a few takes to get the shots just right due to acting and lip syncing.

Pre Production

During the Pre Production part of making the remake of ‘busted – what I go to school for’ we had to plan a detailed storyboard of the video that we were re making. Every shot within the clip needed to be analysed specifically for the timing, shot angle & setting of the shot, so we could get all of the props and find a suitable place to shoot the video. We did this by repeatedly watching the video over and over, and by stopping it at every different shot to analyse what we were seeing. Also in pre production, we practised lip syncing for the film, as this is quite a hard process and takes very accentuated lip movements to get the right effect, this posed another problem in the video, as it took a few takes in production to get it just right.