Our Idea

Dan and I have decided to use the song Can't Stand Me Now by The Libertines for our music video. The narrative will insinuate a break up and show the man trying to get back his girlfriend.

Editing our Prelim

On Friday we uploaded the videos to the Macs and began editing our music video in groups. What we found was that although some clips weren't exactly right, the lip syncing was perfect and with some tweaking we cut the first half in exact time with the music. We completed the first half of editing on Friday and found that it took longer than we expected as it took a lot of work to cut the clips exactly to the song. We also had to keep going into the other room to check exactly what clip came next in the song.

On Tuesday we finished the editing. We had a bit more trouble than we did with the first half as we were missing some clips but we managed to edit it well enough so that the lip syncing still fit. Overall for my practical I learnt that editing can often take a lot more time and effort than expected and it's important to get everything exactly right at the planning and filming stages.

Planning Busted Prelim

In preparation for filming and editing our What I Go to School For music video. We then each wrote a risk assessment and composed a prop list, deciding who would bring in what. The assessment consisted of hazards such as burns, trips, falls etc whilst the prop list contained ties, shirts, guitars, pencils, etc. As a class we watched the video and allotted 10 seconds of the 1 minute 14 of the video to each pair. Dan and I received the last 14 seconds so we got to work drafting a storyboard and finally drawing it up on post it notes. It took a few attempts watching the video and noting the exact seconds and camera angles and image on screen before we got it exactly right, but we tried our best. We then contributed to the group storyboard, which consisted of everyone's section stuck on the board in post its. A photograph of this was taken and is in a previous post of mine.

Filming Busted Preliminary

On Tuesday we began to film our Busted video. I was given the role of director and decided where we filmed and when we filmed which scenes. However, the pairs who storyboarded each section also filmed and directed. Firstly we changed into costume, went over our storyboards and watched the video again. We had some trouble when we couldn't use the room we had originally planned to, but in the second lesson we filmed the outdoor scenes. We had little to no trouble, our only issues were getting the band and other actors confident enough to perform their scenes. After a few cuts we got the scene finished. We then filmed the indoor scenes in the AV studio with it set out as a classroom. We had issues such as lighting, missing equipment that was used in the video, and more problems with confidence. However we overcame these and managed to finish filming in one lesson, which we were proud of. We managed to get every single shot just about the same as in the video, which was helped by our meticulous planning.

Lip Syncing Activity.

To practice for our music video, on Friday Dan and I lip synced together to Elton John and Kiki Dee's Don't Go Breaking My Heart. It was difficult at first but after a few takes we got the hang of it and I think we were successful.

Busted Storyboard

Busted Storyboard 13 c 2010

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As a class we created a storyboard on post-it notes for the first 1.14 of the Busted song What I go to School For. As a pair Dan and I drew the last 14 seconds, noting times and camera angles.