The last preperation task we completed was the practise task. This task was all about preparing for our final production piece and was a practise/example of what we could choose to do. We had either the choice of doing a music video or a film trailer. Firstly we got into groups and I was with Darren and Alex. We then began to choose what we wanted to do and as a group we decided to do a music video. We had been given a choice of what songs to chosse from, by our teacher and we picked Mariah Carey Without You. After this we had to plan our different shots and scenes and what we wanted to do on our storyboard.

Here is My storyboard: Page 1 and 2

 

This shows the planning we did for our music video. After completing this we began to start filming at our locations we set. We had our plan and was reading off of this and after a couple of days filming we began editing. As we had previous experience now of editing we began to edit at a much quicker pace and we started to look more deeply into the types of editing and effects such as slow motion and fade in and out. We used this is our video to help us bind it together. Overall we completed our video with a good overall product although we could definately have made it better.

Here is the link to our video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tdADU8zRo&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=5&feature=plcp

In this task I have learnt many things such as the importance of planning properly, covering our shots, using the same song and time keeping. Firstly the planning we had to do was very immense and we needed to plan everything from props we were using to characters and location. Although we did this relatively well, we got stuck in some cases by not being able to do what we originally planned but also with things such as at the beginning of the video having the bag in the middle of the clip which wasnt planned. This shows taht we have to plan every little detail more in depth than before to be really successful. Another thing I have learnt is the covering of the shots just like the one direction video I did. When we was editing, we noticed we needed more shots than we had taken and this made the video a bit out of sorts. This is why there are so many photos. Although we planned the 10 photos in the middle of the song, the rest werent planned as a result of under taking shots. The biggest error in the video we did was the fact that we used one song from the internet to use as the song over the top and lip syncing, and another on our phone which was a different version. This made the song not match with our actor which made it extremely hard to edit although we did a relatively good job on this. Time keeping is another thing to take into consideration just because we left it a bit late to finaly finish the clip. Although we could have done these things better I elieve that the lip syncing went really well and the video and effects was of a good quality which we as a group were very happy about for a practise attempt.