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Music Video

Pre-Production

For this project, we were separated into groups and were told we had to either recreate a real music video, or create our own from scratch. Our group decided we would recreate a music video for our project. For our song, we decided to go with "Bet on it" from High School Musical 2. In this video, the actor starts out a little troubled, and ends in a very confident and defiant mood. Our group wanted to help recreate this change of mood in our music video. To start the process of making this video, we had to complete our pre-production work. This was by far the most work we've had to do in pre-production for any of our videos. We had to make a beat sheet, which showed what was going on in each individual clip, as well as the length of the clips. We also had to storyboard, and show the mood of the music video in the beginning, middle, and end. Our group was very productive in pre-production, and finished as quick as we could so we could get right in to filming. The last thing we did before filming was to assign roles to the members in our team. We assigned an actor, director, choreographers, and cameraman, although we all helped each other with each role. My main role for this project was the cameraman.

Production

When we were filming our music video, we ran in to a lot of issues. We found that it was very difficult to find a day that everyone was available to film that also had decent weather to film in. Our group planned to film multiple days that we eventually had to call off because of the weather, which resulted in our time table being pushed back. Once we finally found a good day to film, we kind of had to rush some of the shots we needed in order to meet the deadline. Thus, some of the shots were not as good as we would have liked. On filming day, we quickly picked a location that would fit the needs for the shots that we needed. When filming each individual shot, we tried to do shots with the similar widths and heights closer together, so we didn't have to adjust the tripod for each shot. This definitely helped us to film very efficiently. We eventually finished all of the shots we needed, and moved in to post production.

Post Production

Overall, the process of editing for this project was pretty straightforward. Almost all of the editing we had to do consisted of simply sequencing our shots and making sure they lined up correctly with the audio. This was definitely difficult in some situations because our shots were either too short or too long to fit the needed space. To fix this, we had to play with the speed of some shots or cut shots shorter than they were in the actual video. Our entire group split up time working at the computer, but even though only one person was editing at a time, the rest of the group was still giving input on what we thought looked best. We didn't have a ton of extra time to work with some color correction and special effects for our video, so I didn't learn a lot of new editing techniques. However, I still feel more comfortable in premier pro than I did previously. 

Conclusion

As a whole, our entire group did a pretty good job at working together and utilizing the five guarantees. We had to assign roles and communicate a lot with each other in order to be productive with our work. We also had to plan ahead a lot, and we had to have some people take charge to keep our group on track. Overall, if I were to do this project again, I would have definitely picked a music video that was inside. I think that would have made this process so much easier for all of us, because we were all very productive when we were actually working. I also would have chose to looked closer at the clips we had while we were still filming, so we wouldn't have some unfocused shots or shots that didn't fit our timeline. However, given the circumstances we had, I am definitely happy with our end result. Looking to the future, I will definitely pay more attention to some of the smaller details in my shots. I will also be more careful to fix some of the basic aspects of a shot such as focus and lighting. As a whole, this project was incredibly frustrating to work on, but was also extremely rewarding. I definitely think this project helped to improve myself as a filmmaker, and I am happy with what we created.

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