Evaluation of Practical task

Britany Spears - Hit me baby one more time

Before startin our music video task, as a class we were asked to create 'Britany Spears - Hit me baby one more time'. I was in a group of 4 people and we were creating a 10 second extract. I would embed our the finish video however due to group difficulties, our groups extract was not used, It was not satisfactory.

In our extract there was alot of dance moves containing various types of shots such as close ups and wide shots. Lip syncing was an issue due to the fact that we were never in time with music. For the  close up shots, we used a tripod therefore the camera would be striaght and professional. 

For some scenes of the extract. we used a group of students to participate however we found out that we had to get parental permission therefore we had to shoot those scenes again which proved to be time consuming. 

For editing the footage, we used iMovie. This was the first ive used this software and as a group, there were difficulties, in that everyone has basic knowledge of this software. The footage we had was sometimes not in sync and sometimes too short, therefore when i create my own music video, i know i will need to take more footage then needed for each shot because then editing will become easier.

The basic error in our extract was the fact that the other members of the group let me down, in that i mean me and another member went off to record footage whereas two other members stayed in the mac room to edit. Whilst we were recording our footage, they were editing the footage we had already uploaded. however once we were finish, they had not completed much and we were behind. We were on such a tight schedule which lead the editing being rushed.

The biggest hurdle in this task was working with a group and time mangement. I think i will work better by myself and i will be able to edit and shoot my footage at my own pace. Doing this task has my enabled me to understand the software i will be using to create my music video.