Evaluation of preliminary task

Overall I am pleased with how our preliminary task went and how the final version looked. I feel like Abi, Tammy and I worked well as a team and each of us contributed to the project in different ways.
Our video was never going to look exactly like the real video due to a very limited budget and amount of time but I think that we made it look very similar through costume, acting and editing. As we used a good quality camera (Cannon 700D) and a new computer (which took some getting used to but worked well for us in the long run) for the editing, our version looks professional and the shots change in time with the real video.

Example of lip synching.

I think that this task has been really useful and will prove a beneficial thing to have done when it comes to our final project of creating my own music video from scratch. It has taught me how to match a person lip syncing with music and how difficult it is. I have also learnt that the best way to make it look realistic is if the person miming actually sings the song and starts to sing the lyrics before the bit that needs to be filmed so it flows naturally and each shot doesn't look like the person has just started to sing that line. Something else I have learnt is that it is much better to have too much footage than not enough as you can use clips you didn't think you needed in different parts.

Doing this task has allowed my confidence to grow as I feel like creating my own music video is an achievable goal and with my knowledge and practice of editing and filming over the course of As and the start of A2 media, I will hopefully be able to produce a good quality music video which is enjoyable to watch.

A problem I did find when doing this task was when it came to editing. We struggled to upload our footage to the computer as it was new and none of us had used it before. However, with help from our teacher we learned which format the clips had to be imported in and how to use the new system of adobe premier pro. Another problem I faced was that again, none of us knew how to create the split screen effect like it is edited in the original video. With help from our teacher (again) I learnt how to resize each of the clips, crop them and move them around to create the layout of the footage the same as the original video.

As well as finding this task beneficial from an educational point of view I also found it fun to work with my friends to create this section of a music video and in such a short space of time it has taught me how to deal with time pressures and work efficiently. After doing this I am excited to start planning and creating my own video later on this year.