When comparing the video that we completed and the original video, I thought that as far as shot and placement of people goes, it was quite good and it seemed to be pretty close even though we had a rough time shooting the video. Our main task we wanted to complete was to get the shots accurate and make sure that they looked as similar as possible.
I think that if we had more time to edit, we could have made it look even better, by playing around with zooms in and outs on the editing software. This meant that if we were able to do that, we could have got some of the shots to look like they had the same effects on them as the original, as well as having similar shots and scenes.
Even though it didn't matter, I think the costume was the most far from the original but I think that this was a plus because it made our video look more funny than serious and our group seems to be good a humor. Especially having a male actor as 'Britney', this really set the humor for are shoot and kept our spirits high.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Sunday, 5 July 2009
The Practice Music Video Shoot
To begin with, the shoot started of slowly but quite well. We begun by getting all the right people in the right uniforms and getting them to doing their correct jobs. Loz was our 'britney' and we got him all dressed up in the right school girls uniform and wig and myself and few others started to help him learn his dance moves. We all stood in front of a laptop, which was playing the video and we used the video and my drawings to help us all the learn the right moves for the right frames.
We didnt have a long time to pratice the dance routine as we only had a few hours to shoot and our director had a more quicker plan which he hadn't informed us of. Therefore, about half an hour after starting, we were then down in the gym, where we needed to shoot, to start shooting our video.
The gym was the perfect place to shoot because we had a big enough hall way to dance down, there were doors which we could use to come out of and we also had a lot of lockers which we could open for a lot of the shots.
The shooting was quite simple, as most shot only consisted of the two backing dancers and 'britney'. The shooting itself was basic, just us dancing and 'britney' miming and the camera man completing the right camera angles and shots.
These shots were completed quite quickly but over a big period of time as there were a lot of them and then we just had to shoot shots of the guys coming out of 'class rooms' and opening lockers.
We also had a short period of time to go to a classroom so we could shoot the shots at the beginning of the video, where Britney was tapping the talbe with her pencil and tapping her foot on the talbe leg. These were again simple and done quick at the beginning of the hours we had and I think they were the best parts of what we shot.
We didnt have a long time to pratice the dance routine as we only had a few hours to shoot and our director had a more quicker plan which he hadn't informed us of. Therefore, about half an hour after starting, we were then down in the gym, where we needed to shoot, to start shooting our video.
The gym was the perfect place to shoot because we had a big enough hall way to dance down, there were doors which we could use to come out of and we also had a lot of lockers which we could open for a lot of the shots.
The shooting was quite simple, as most shot only consisted of the two backing dancers and 'britney'. The shooting itself was basic, just us dancing and 'britney' miming and the camera man completing the right camera angles and shots.
These shots were completed quite quickly but over a big period of time as there were a lot of them and then we just had to shoot shots of the guys coming out of 'class rooms' and opening lockers.
We also had a short period of time to go to a classroom so we could shoot the shots at the beginning of the video, where Britney was tapping the talbe with her pencil and tapping her foot on the talbe leg. These were again simple and done quick at the beginning of the hours we had and I think they were the best parts of what we shot.
Planning of Practice Music Task
When we first got introduced to the task, was when we first started planning the task and this planning was the first hour out of two that we managed to complete before the final and only shooting of the task.
The first hour of planning was basically us just being assigned a role within the task, planning who was going to bring in what and be certain people within the video. This was quite quickly completed, as we had chosen good directors, who were James and Kirk. These two were the complete opposite of each other, as Kirk was calm and thoughtful and James was stern and forceful.
This helped our group get on with thing a lot quicker as Kirk would be good at informing us of what was best and James was best at enforcing it firmly so we got it done good and quick.
Our second and last planning was done the day before we were shooting. Even though this sounds unplanned and stupid, it turned out to be useful for us, as people were more likely to remember to do things and would remember the routine better for the next day. For this session we were just getting all the last ends together, such as, the dance moves and who was bringing in the uniforms for the shoot the next day. This planning session went very well as everyone knew we had a deadline and that we needed to get it done be that time. My mini task to complete before the shoot was to draw out each dance move within each shot and then to teach it as best I could to the group who was dancing the next day.
The first hour of planning was basically us just being assigned a role within the task, planning who was going to bring in what and be certain people within the video. This was quite quickly completed, as we had chosen good directors, who were James and Kirk. These two were the complete opposite of each other, as Kirk was calm and thoughtful and James was stern and forceful.
This helped our group get on with thing a lot quicker as Kirk would be good at informing us of what was best and James was best at enforcing it firmly so we got it done good and quick.
Our second and last planning was done the day before we were shooting. Even though this sounds unplanned and stupid, it turned out to be useful for us, as people were more likely to remember to do things and would remember the routine better for the next day. For this session we were just getting all the last ends together, such as, the dance moves and who was bringing in the uniforms for the shoot the next day. This planning session went very well as everyone knew we had a deadline and that we needed to get it done be that time. My mini task to complete before the shoot was to draw out each dance move within each shot and then to teach it as best I could to the group who was dancing the next day.
Practice Music Video Task
At the beginning of the week starting the 29th of July, we were given the task to remake the video for 'Britney Spears - Hit me baby one more time'. This task didn't have to be completed perfectly but the task was mainly to see how close we could get each shot to look like the original video.
We all watched a the music video, several times to see what we were getting ourselves into. After watching the video closely and discussing our initial thoughts, we all thought that this was going to be a really easy task and we all felt really relaxed towards the idea.
We all watched a the music video, several times to see what we were getting ourselves into. After watching the video closely and discussing our initial thoughts, we all thought that this was going to be a really easy task and we all felt really relaxed towards the idea.
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