For the practical task in year 12, My media class and I recreated the Britney Spears music video 'Baby, One more time' as you can see below, we took sections of the video as a class and worked in groups to recreate our own section. The recreated sections have been joined together and the video is embedded below, my groups section is 0:00-0:30.
When filming, mirroring the shots for our section we had was used different camera shots for each scene so we could choose from a vairety. I learnt how to use iMovie on the mac computers, and learnt the importance and how careful you have to be with editing.
When making the music video, I gained knowlodge of how to work a camera, how to use filming equipment such as a Tripod and also key skills of how to work in a group and edit with the precisions of lip syncing and timing. When filming our lip syncing scenes, we first just got our actress to mime the words, but that was particular difficult as we didn't have the guidence of the song. The second time around we used YouTube to listen to the song, but this time sing a long with it. We found that was much more effective when lip syncing and it doesn't look as fake when your miming. When editing our footage, it was particularly hard to work the lip syncing as many of us were not familiar with the iMove programme we were using. As a group we all had our say and input when editing, this made us work a lot better and we could understand each other if one person had an opinion about tweeking a shot.
Creating the music video was a very enjoyable task which helped me gain knowlegde on a production of a Music video and the props that you need as well as the equipment. I feel very confident during my A2 course of Media studies now as i've had experience which filming and editing.
