The evaluation

Evaluation :

Location:

The good thing about our location is how realistic and similar it looks to the real and original video. We thought that using the college theatre would be useful as it has a projector that we could put the image on to make it more similar to the video. We also had access to the spot lights and different coloured lights to create the last sequence. It also gave us enough space to fit all the props and cast in to create the shots we needed to do.

The negative aspect of our location is that the theatre is in high demand due to it being end of term and there being lots of productions therefore the theatre is needed for them. It was difficult to find a time during the college week when we would all be available as well as the theatre and Andy the head of theatre production to help us with the lighting.

Props:

The use of the instruments created realism and made out video look stronger. Even though these props were hard to get a hold of, we improvised with these props to create different effects throughout our film. For example we used the microphone for the female singer and for the main singer, both at different times within the video.  To create the video we used similar costumes to the original video to create continuity.        

Again the negative aspect of some of the props we used was high demand. The music department was in the middle of final recordings for their coursework so all microphones and most the guitars were in use. Another negative aspect of the props were that we could not gain access to some such as a drum kit in the long shot scenes to show similarity in the reconstruction.
Filming:

Filming was really fun to do and it brought the full group came together. Although at some points it was hard to decide shot types and Mise-en-scene, the filming process was interesting and really enjoyable to do. It gave the group an idea that it won’t be this easy when it comes to create our own music video but it inspired us to create the best product that we can. Another good thing about physically filming a music video is we all learnt something new about filming, whether it’s how to use the video camera, how to frame a shot or realising the sound distance.

A negative aspects of filming was it was difficult to find a time that would suit everyone for filming due to some people living far away from college and not being able to stay after to film or having prior engagements and exams to filter in to the shooting schedule. Another negative aspect of filming was trying to communicate with the group and Andy the theatre manager to get the correct framing, lighting and sound due to lack of light in the theatre and the actual size of it.

Editing:

A good thing about editing is the relief of having created something that looks like the original video and to have done it to a decent standard. We found the editing process quite easy to do and found it quite enjoyable to use. A thing we have learnt about editing is to concentrate on the length of the shot for editing, for example having 2-3 seconds either side of how long we want the video to be. This would make it easier to edit when it comes to our A2 music video.

A negative aspect of editing the music video was that we signed in to one person’s account on a mac and we soon realised that we had to go to that exact mac on that person’s account to do all of the editing therefore we had to wait until that one person and that particular mac was free for us to all have a chance at editing our reconstruction.