Deconstruction and reconstruction Evaluation

During the creation of my groups reconstruction of the “Made in England” music video we had run into issues, to solve these various issues we worked as a team to overcome them. During this evaluation I will be explaining how we re-created the music video, made certain choices that link to the representation we were trying to achieve and as a team worked together to create the music video we have created.

This shot was taken for the beginning of the music video, an issue we had when we came to this section of the music video was in a urban street. My group did not have access to such a setting so we had to make a compromise, to overcome this issue we decided to use a similar setting nearby which gave the same appearance as the original.

One main problem our group faced was the use of an extended fade effect; we had no idea on how to re-create this effect. To solve this problem we decided to ask for aid from the media technician who told us how to create the effect, after receiving this piece of knowledge we then had to work together to make the right adjustments to the settings so that the effect worked on the right level for the music video to be a closer re-construction. Through the path to resolving this issue we had to work together and this allowed us to communicate our opinions to each other and thus be able to recreate this effect in our music video as a team.

 

One shot that was very problematic was the shot at the 16 second mark, this is because the weather had took a turn making heavy rain and moderate wind to interfere with the camera as we tried to record our shot. During our music video you will be able to see that our camera rocks during filming, in the original video the camera uses a steady pan to follow the performer whilst in our recreation this shot was shaking during the pan. We had to bear on and make the shot work, to make the best shot that we could we made sure everyone knew what they were doing to try and make a “one shot take” where we acquire the shot we required in one attempt. The shot was filmed and served its purpose very well in our reconstruction.

Over the course of this project I have learnt that creating a music video that lasts 30 seconds is a arduous task indeed, because the amount of time we spend recording useful shots so our music video reconstruction could be made we had spent over three hours recording shots. Considering that the task was to create a 30 second reconstruction and it took us over 3 hours to acquire the shots it shows that creating a video takes time and patience to acquire the shots and to edit the footage to create what we are trying to achieve. When I start to create my film trailer I will remember the skills I have learnt during this project and now have a better understanding of how I will have to approach the creation period of my film trailer.