Preliminary Task

We where set a preliminary task as a practise for actual music video. This will give us the chance to get to know the equipment, use the equipment and edit our footage.

We were set the song 'Happy' Pharrell Williams.

During the production of our preliminary task, we found it difficult at first to find people to lip sync to different parts of the song, so we took it upon ourselves to do many of the shots. However we did manage to get a few people to do it including one of our teachers.

For both of us, it had been a while since we had filmed which meant that the of setting up of the equipment, including the tripod and photography lights, was hard at first, but with some help from the media technician, and our previous AS media knowledge we were able to.

After setting up the photography lights in the media lab, we where able to shoot clear footage with professional lighting. Although they where often still shots as we where using the white board as a white background and the camera was mounted to the tripod.



Lastly, we edited the videos and clips that we had on the software program; Premiere Pro, and again it had been a while since we last did this. We became confident there more we edited and got used to the soft wear. We managed to add effects like black and white contrast to some shots and also speeding up some of the clips by doing some research (often on YouTube).



The Final Product: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJPamb28ps


What went well?

• We found that when filming we had a lot of ideas which meant that we had a lot of footage to work with.
• We learnt a lot about the equipment, for example camera and lighting which will be helpful for the actual video.
• We researched and used different editing techniques which vary the clips shown.

Challenges?

• We had little past experience of using the editing software, (Premiere Pro), to overcome this problem we had to do individual research to enhance our knowledge.
• Our location was limited due to being in school and we had to film ourselves due to people being in lessons. We tried to vary the shots to keep it interesting.
• We had technical software difficulties such as Premiere Pro would often freeze which meant that it took longer than expected.

In Conclusion

It was very helpful doing this task as the challenges we faced where overcome and so will not affect us in our actual music video. It was also a fun way to get used to the equipment and software again.