Final Reconstruction

Evaluation

For this task we had to go into groups of 4-5 people and choose a music video one of us had re-created a one minute storyboard for. For my group we chose No Doubt – Just a Girl. We chose to recreate the first 30 seconds of the music video because it had different edit styles which would be a challenge when it came to re-shooting and editing it together. For the mise-en-scene we had to use a car and drive around the neighbourhood collecting shots of the different sights for the fast paced shots. Throughout the music video there was a wide variety of different camera angles which we had to recreate, there was many high and low angles, close ups and medium shots which when edited together created a three second sequence. Further on the video, there is another fast paced sequence lasting 1 second although they are still images.

I learnt how important planning beforehand is important, having the story board completed and also having a production schedule so everyone knows who is filming what and when. We created a production plan and posted in onto blogger, this helped us to keep organised a so everyone knew what to do which we also updated daily on what we had shot, when. This task also helped me to get experience for time management, as I had a two week deadline we had to sort out a timetable and also give everyone a role for the task, e.g. director, editor or camera operator. I also learnt how to use the edit suites more thoroughly as for a scene in the music video there is a split screen with two different shots, I was shown how to do this by cropping the two shots and changing the motion of both shots so they both occupy a side.

Problems we faced was on the first day of shooting, our director and camera operator was ill so this forced us to abandon filming for the full afternoon we scheduled to film. Another problem was shooting the scenes were Gwen Stefani is singing in the car, we didn't have the full story board at the time so when it came to shooting the scenes we ended up singing the wrong lyrics, we then had to go back and re-shoot this scene but this set us back in our production plan which ended up costing us less time on the edit suites. Another problem we faced was when it came to edit the sequence together, in the video there is a scene were Gwen Stefani is seen walking from one room into another, when No Doubt filming this scene they had built the set so the camera was able to track from one room to the other, however we didn't have the means to do this, so when we was filming the shots we filmed the singer walking into one room and the then another of her walking into the actual room. When we came to edit these shots together we faced the dilemma of the shots looking bad, we had gotten both shots into the same shot by cropping them together and moving the shots so they occupied a side. However when we played back the shot, the shot on the right were the singer is seen walking through the door disappeared for a few seconds before reappearing in the other shot. The problem we did was we had cut both shots too much and had lost the part of the sequence we needed. So we went back and made the shots longer were we overcame the problem.

To plan it took us an hour to sort out the roles of everyone and to plan our production schedule, we already had a hand drawn story board of the scenes we were to shoot but or extra measures we created a digital story board with screen shots from the actual music video, this is so we knew the exact shot, angle and distance from the camera. It took us longer than we had hopes to shoot the video, after having to re-shoot some shots our shooting time lasted five days which ended up cutting our time on the edit suites. To edit it took us a little over two hours overall, which wasn't ideal in our situation because we had many difficult edit sequences to learn and use in our video.