The Tools that helped ALOT.

Post-Production

In post production, as a group we had to edit the video and add the audio to ensure that it was a legitimate re-make of the real video.

We incurred such problems as the fact that some scenes were not the same length as they were in the real video, we found a way around this by clipping most shots to ensure that the video resembled in every every way the real video.

The most useful tools on the programme Adobe Premier 2.0 were clipping and the muted audio tools. They helped us to concentrate on a section at a time and ensured that we could pin-point the mistakes.

I found that sharing the editing between the group worked well as it gave all of us a chance to use the software and get used to it, in order for it to help us over the next year of the course.

Digital technology

This task helped immensely in developing my skills using a camera. It helped mostly because each of the group took turns in suing the equipment, as we were all involved in the cast. We need to remember for next time that we have to take extra care with tapes, as at one point we thought we had taped over all of one day's filming, as this was VERY worrying we will ensure that in the future we make sure we take extra care not to do this, as if this had happened we wouldn't be able to reverse it.

Research & Planning

Whilst planning the Busted video re-make, the most helpful thing that assured that we made an accurate portrayal was the shooting timeline, It made sure that we got all of the shots done and that they were shot in the most appropriate sequence.

I think that more planning could have been done to assure that we had as many extras as we needed, as we had to interrupt the other group in order to make sure our video had enough cast. I also think that we should have looked more into locations as on the day we realised that our outdoor scene location wasn't actually appropriate and we had to change it last minute.

In the A2 year i expect to be doing planning in alot more detail to ensure that the work is up to a higher standard, i think that we will do this by taking a more professional approach to the planning and taking it more seriously.

Music video re-make

What i learnt about making the Lip sync video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR_60TnOo8 :Video HTML.

Preparing to make this video was not especially hard. All we had to do was learn the lyrics and make sure that we had the equipment. This was all very easy to organise.

The filming also proved to be quite easy as we sat the camera on a tripod and just filmed me and my partner singing along. We edited out the start and end as it included us talking and moving to press 'record' on the camera.

As I myself and my partner were the performers we didn't have any difficulty with trying to persuade people or having difficult people to work with. If you want something done right, do it yourself.

We used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the clip. We found almost immeadiatley that because we had used a version of the song from you-tube, it didn't match exactly in-time with the MP3 we were supposed to be adding to the clip post-production. This has taught us the lesson that in future productions that we need to use exactly the same MP3 in order to create a perfect end product as timing the sound to the filming was almost impossible due to this error.