In our prelim task I worked with James Braddy, Katylin Jarvis and George Brewer. Early on it was decided that we would be recreating 'Situations' by Escape The Fate. We would each help with the preparations for the shoot, help with the film and be equally included in the process.
To make it easier for ourselves we decided to 'screen grab' the original video and annotate what/who was in the shot,the duration of the shot and the angle of the camera. This would make it easier and quicker for us to shot instead of always referring to the video.
To film the sequence we used SONY AVCHD HandyCams. For some static shots we used a tri-pod, and in others we used hand-held where the camera is moving backwards with the actor or panning - a steadycam would have been most effective to stabilise such shots. We then used Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to cut and edit the footage, along with the original video in the corner of the screen to synchronise them together.
When planning, shooting and editing we had to consider a number of different factors. When planning we had to assess when we would shoot specific sequences for example alot of the other groups needed the classroom for shots in thier video so we had to work out when it was avalible for us to use-in the end we shot the classroom scene in two different sessions. When shooting we had to ensure that whoever was lip-synching knew the lyrics to their part well and could lip-synch them effectively whilst acting similarly to the vocalist in the video, this proved very difficult as we seemed to over exagerated some words making it almost impossible to synch some words together. We therefor had to re-shot some parts; because of this, we were moving back and forth between shooting and editing to create the best possible re-production of the video with the time and budget given( we have no money.)
Overall, I think that our video is successful in capturing the general spirit and style of the original music video. We took it in turns to portraying the vocalist of the band, wearing make-up, wigs and bandannas, we have created an almost 'spoof' take on the original video. In reflection, we would definitely take more care when filming as some shots were spolit where the actor goes off-screen - some of these were shot again but we could not re-shoot some others, which are very noticable.
We also should of created an avaliblity table because some people where off on various school trips leaving only two people to continue with the work.
In comparison to creating the opening for a film ( our A/S final production), I found this music video task alot more difficult; when creating an original film opening, we benefitted from creating a storyline and characters, using what we've got available i.e. props and costumes, whereas with re-creating a music video we were working as hard as possible to replicate someone else's choice of costumes, props, shots and actions when they had a huge budget and months to plan where as we only had a week with no budget.
For this task George put himself as team leader and took over most aspects of the task, with leaving the rest of the group to try and work around him. George has many skills that are well suited towards being a team leader, but as both myself and George have strong personalites so we clashed on multiple occasions but sorted it out promptly. It also brought George a great deal of pressure when people where not in, which effective group productity greatly.
In conclusion I think this task went well and we worked well as a group however next time I would try and have everyone work on the same level instead of having one team leader telling everyone what to do.
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