Prelim Task - Music Video

About Prelim Task

For our media studies work we had to produce a music video in order to get a feel of what creating the content would be like. I had chosen to do a music video with my classmates because that is what everyone had agreed on and because it is only a class of six people. For the music video task we has to recreate a small section of "What time is it" from high school musical and in our compleated task by having the proper video in a corner of our video. This is to compare how well we had done the video in comparison to the original video. For this task we had 4 hours of lesson time to film the music video. But we had left most of the editing to the last couple of lessons which had made it difficult to finish in the class time that we had left.

What We Did

Because everyone had chosen to do the music video. We all had to direct a small part of the music video and we each had our own little segments. When we had started to film the music video we had found that it was quite difficult to try to lipsync to the original video and some of the scenes were difficult to recreate due to space constraints and the limited amount of people that we going to do the music video and the limited number of people that were avaliable. This was a first time experience for the majority of us that would need to be used for them. This would help us when we would have the skills in order to create our own video and to be successful

What Went Well

Trying to organise everyone into their positions was one of the most difficult challenges in trying to film the music video and trying to make it accurately reproduced was one of the most difficult challenges that we had overcome. After we had filmed a coupole of different scenes we had eventually got better as we filmed each scene got better. We had all found our own individual parts and we all had tried to be all of the different characters that are in the "what time is it" music video such as Sharpie, Troy and Gabrella. Everyone all had to bring some different costumes in order so we could create the most accurate reprensentations for them and to make the music video the most realistic looking to the audience that would be watching the music video. Some of the costumes that everyone had brught were not the same as the music video but had made a best effort attempt at tring to make themselves look as same as the video.We also found that we needed to take quite a lot of shots in order to try to get the music video exactly how everyone had wanted it. This has shown us that most people are unable to complete it on one shot.

Filming & Editing

Trying to film the music video was one of the most difficult parts because we had to learn how to lipsync to to music and we also had to renember how each character in the origional music video acted inside of the music video. This meant that we needed to take a lot of shots for each of our parts of the music video that we are going to create from this and allow them to make a great video. The editing of the video was one of the most difficult parts of the prelim because we needed to learn the skills that are needed in order to edit the video on Adobe Premier Pro, From doing the prelim task I have learn't a lot of new skills that are required in order to edit such as the different buttons and features to see what they are able to do. The reason why i had chosen to make a magazine instead of a music video was that I thourght it had been quite difficult to make a music video and I would be unable to find enough people to make a music video.

In Conclusion...

Overall i think that everyone in the class had made a good effort in trying to reproduce the "what time is it" music video with the time, space and budget constraints which were present in creating the music video. Items such as the large clock in the music video were sourced from around the school and it means that the video has become more realistic fo to produce E.G the large clock tin the music video was actually a game show spinner.Overall I think the most difficult part of trying to reproduce the music video was having a go at it was the most difficult part of trying to make the video along with trying to lipsync in time with the music for the first time for the majority of us and was one of the most difficult parts of making a video and we all had found out that there needs to be a lot of cross corordination between all of the members that are going to be in the music video. I also beneleive that we need to use effective time management when we are producing our own products and that to leave sufficent time for editing this and allowing time for also learning how to use the software that is required such as Adobe Premier Pro and Photoshop which can be quite difficult if you have had no prior experience of usuing the software