A2 Prelim Evaluation

1- Pre Production (story boarding/prop list etc)

The first part of the prelim task was to storyboard the music video, for this we needed to note down every element of the video including costume, angle, time of shot etc up to 1 minute 14 secs. For this you needed to be very patient as everything needed to be commented on and written down correctly so the shots, costume, angles etc all looked the same in the prelim as they did in the real one. For the story-boarding, i worked with a friend to make the process easier and faster to finish so we could get started on the prop/costume list, using the information from the story board we made a list of what every person needed to bring in for filming, for example: ties, guitars, shirts etc. so we were all prepared for filming in the next lesson. We also gave Dale the role of being director, so he gave out all the roles of who he wanted people to be in the video, and direct everything from who sat where, to who did what!

2- Production (filming etc)

The production stage was quite easy to get our heads round once we knew what we were doing, we had to be in our costumes before the lesson started so we could go straight in and start filming, the first bits of filming we did was of the teacher, like the extreme close ups of her eyes, and turning off the light switch etc, after that the 3 band members were filmed, the guys operating the camera had to film from the exact same angles as in the actual video so there was alot of moving around and re-positioning of people, we had 2 lessons to shoot both the interior and exterior of the video, we shot the interior obviously inside in the classroom, then the exterior just outside the library in a little courtyard, where the 3 band members and the 'class' had to dance and sing, the exterior took less time to do than the interior as there were less shots of people, and the main focus were the 3 band mates, it took quite a while for the 3 band members to jump and land at the same time though, which took up alot of time! The filming went as planned, we just then had to edit it into a proper music video!

3- Post production (editing footage etc)

I was away for this element of the process but i know the mac's were used to edit the footage, and that it took 2 lessons to do, we had to sync the music with the footage and make sure the shots and angles looked similar to those in the actual video.