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.
