For our preliminary task we spent a day at Longbenton CLC. The task consisted of us as a group to plan, story board, film and edit. The facilities at the CLC allowed us to try out different filming techniques as well as being able to learn more about editing a film in the software Adobe Premier - the software we will be using for the main video project.
This video was done by Me (Vicki) and Catherine. The concept of this video was to capture the essence of the day. For example other groups filming and what it is to film a music video and all the equipment and time that goes into the production. It involves footage from days of planning to the journey to actual filming. THe narrative part of the video is the filming from the day at the CLC of other groups and all the mistakes and laughs they put into their videos. This was to tie in with the song our class chose: 'Shine' by Take That. The performance part of our video was filmed at the CLC and then later edited on the computer. I sang the song at the CLC with a close up of my lips. Then later at school on Adobe Premier we edited the contrast of the shot with the lip and this took out the background and made only the lips visible in the shot. This was effective as it looked like the lips were floating. What we would need to improve on for the main video project would be timing of everything especially lip sinking as in some parts of this video they are slightly out. However this task did allow us to see exactly what needed to be put into a music video. It taught us the importance of editing on the beat making the video look and sound clean to the target audience. Also how the balance between narrative and perfomance is key to a good video and how the amount of planning and time it takes to put together a good video.
