Evaluation

During the course of the transition project I found that there was a couple of challenging things, but the most challenging thing that my group and I found was the editing. This took up quite a lot of our time and there was some quite elaborate and hard edits that needed to be done in order for it to look similar to the original music video. But we found a way to get over this and in the end the finish product was satisfying. Another thing that my group and I found challenging was matching the music to the lip syncing of the actors, to improve this we could of played the music under the camera for the actors to hear and get the timings right.
 

If I am successful in moving on to A2 this coming September, I will feel like I am prepared to make the product next year. But there are a few things that I will be doing differently because of the little things that didn't go quite so well doing during transition period. For example if I choose to do the music video promotion product, I might not use as much lip syncing in my video. I would like to have it more performance based and this will be helped by the fact that I study drama and performing arts as well. The lip syncing parts I do in the video though will have to be timed a lot better than the ones in our transition video. But it was a learning curve and I can only improve for A2.

Doing this transition task over the past three weeks I believe that it has been a great help to me. I have learnt that making a full music video takes a lot of time and a huge amount of effort. My group and I chose a music video that was very challenging when it came o both filming and editing. The locations where very site specific and it is lucky that we live in a town that has a huge water fountain just like the one in the video and the editing was very sharp and had to be very precise to look correct. All of this has given me the experience to know not to over complicate things and to properly think things through for next year. Looking back now I know that by doing this task it has given me the confidence to improve on the areas that were weak.

Developing onto A2 next year will be a big step up from AS and the standard of work will rise sufficiently but I have every confidence in myself that I will create an original piece of work that is of A2 standard, but this is only possible if I put the amount of effort in needed in research and planning before actually making the video. Working over summer will help me get straight on with the work when we return in September. 

 

Looking back on the past three weeks, the group and I are very pleased with the outcome of the product. For the video that we chose there was a huge amount of editing and that was only the first minute of the video and I believe the group tackled the challenge well and the finished video has a lot of similarities to the original witch we are pleased about. I think that the product is successful because we created a schedule and plan and we stuck by it and kept by it. We had all of the filming done rather quickly which left us with plenty of time to edit. Another reason I believe the product was successful was because of the performers; they gave a good performance for the camera which created a better atmosphere in the video rather than it looking like people are not confident and don't have a clue what they are doing.

What I like the most about the final product is that the people in it gave a performance and made it look very similar to the original piece, the location that we chose was also a huge factor in delivering the verisimilitude and I believe that it did look like the original in the end. My least favourite bit about the final product is that some of the shots and the lip syncing are different and out of pace to the music that is playing. To improve on this for A2 I am going to have to film on a tripod and have the music playing at the same time for the actors to lip sync with.

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