The planning stages of the video involved creating a storyboard and timeline of the video, organising who will be in the video and who will shoot and also the organisation of props and costumes.
Luckily there was no real difficulty with the props or costumes, everyone was able to get a costume in time for filming and the desks to create the setting were readily available. Deciding the director and the actors was very simple to, however the most help came from the storyboard of shots for the video.
We also did an exercise in lip-syncing which was to help prepare us for the busted video, helping us to synch up the music and words with the mouth actions of the actors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JIhl7hKb8 : The lip-syncing demo video
This was helpful as it told us what shots had to be done so we did not have to keep referring to the video and didn't miss any shots out, which was vital to the video.
Technology was also a much needed tool in the creative process. Youtube and Dailymotion are useful for looking up the original video and previous attempts to replicate it in order to find out how best to imitate it and also for uploading the final product.
The camera was perhaps the biggest piece of technology we were dealing with because we relied on it to capture all the shots we needed. There was little problem with focusing or zomming, however a simple error due to common human stupidity meant that we forgot when the camera was and wasn't filming and ended up without the last shot, which was a bad mistake, but since we were only doing the first minute or so of the video so it didn't matter too much, but it has to be considdered somthing worth learning to avoid such silly mistakes again.
This was helpful as it told us what shots had to be done so we did not have to keep referring to the video and didn't miss any shots out, which was vital to the video.
Technology was also a much needed tool in the creative process. Youtube and Dailymotion are useful for looking up the original video and previous attempts to replicate it in order to find out how best to imitate it and also for uploading the final product.
The camera was perhaps the biggest piece of technology we were dealing with because we relied on it to capture all the shots we needed. There was little problem with focusing or zomming, however a simple error due to common human stupidity meant that we forgot when the camera was and wasn't filming and ended up without the last shot, which was a bad mistake, but since we were only doing the first minute or so of the video so it didn't matter too much, but it has to be considdered somthing worth learning to avoid such silly mistakes again.
Other pieces of technology used in post-production were the Adobe Premier, which allowed us to string together our shots really easily and also helped with trying to properly synch up the video with the lyrics, and the way it organised our shots was brilliantly easy too and there were really no problems in working with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ezSrSmd7b0 : The finished busted video.
