Evaluation of reconstruction task

Evaluation of induction task  -

At the start of the project we were able to get into groups that we would work in to develop the 30 second music video – everybody within the group gets on well, this was good for working together to try and create one piece of work. We didn't encounter any problems such as people not on and there isn’t a huge difference in peoples opinions and tastes so we all managed to agree on everything.

When it came to choosing a song and which storyboard to follow, we decided as a group that it would be better to choose a new song all together as  the videos that we potentially had to remake would have been difficult to shoot. One of the storyboards that someone had done was a music video filmed on a boat – this was virtually impossible for us to replicate and the shots were really long so it would have been quite dull at the quality we would have recreated it. The song that we chose to use had a video that had several similar shots that were filmed in different places that we thought we would be able to find and film in.

We tried to decide on someone that would play the artist in the video so asked a few people but everybody that we had asked said they didn't want too or couldn't  This was the first problem we encountered as we were on a short time scale and needed to get someone ready for filming on the Monday. I ended up been in the video because when it got to the day when we should have been filming, we still didn't have anybody and we needed to start filming. It worked quite well because I like the song and already knew the words so that was one less thing to worry about. We had already organised which locations we were going to film in so we could go straight to them and shoot quickly.

Most of the shots were quite basic but we encountered problems with shots; four, seven and twelve. Shot four was filmed in a car and I don’t have one so this wasn't possible. As an alternative we just filmed a walking shot in the gap where the car should have been. The lighting became a problem for shots seven and twelve because of the back-light from the window. There was no way around the back-light because the shot is composed just in front of the window, when we composed the shot we realised this and tried to get the lighting right just by closing blinds and changing the brightness of the lights but it was really difficult as I was just a silhouette and my features weren't clear so the shot didn't resemble the one from the real music video. We ended up getting some lights that are used in the green room to compensate the back-light and after moving them about a bit we were able to make my features appear in the shot in a similar way to how it has been done in the original video.

The only other problems we encountered were when it came to putting the shots together in the editing suite, we realised that we had filmed a couple of the shots at the wrong part of the song so the lip syncing didn’t match up properly. For one of them, we were able to just put a different shot over it because we’d filmed more than enough but the shot at the end where it cuts to a close up of the artists face, we had filmed the wrong part; the words were the same but because it was at the wrong part of the song, the video and audio didn’t match up so the end is slightly different to the actual music video. We managed to put one of the shots in front of the window where I’m just about to start talking in and it filled a gap where the lip syncing didn’t match.