Explore and Experiment - Skills

Music Video Unit 0 - Skills





Assignment.



      For the skills unit we had to create a music video. We were given 4 pieces of music to choose from and had to pick one and base our music videos around it. For this I paired up with a friend, Gemma Emberson, and we both decided that we should choose the track 'Pack up' by Eliza Doolittle as it was a happy and upbeat song. It made sense to do this one as we had lots of ideas to put forward for it. We had to complete this within two weeks, by the 22nd October. So we started immediately with noting down our ideas in a mind map. We started with what the song makes us think about and then added more ideas on from that.



     We had to choose a simple but effective idea as we didn't have that long to produce it. Firstly we had to listen to the song then analyse the lyrics and see what came to mind and the meaning behind them, also we had to think about what would relate to the lyrics such as: there is a line of the song which talks about the sea, so our first thought was to film it by the sea on the beach.

  

     Our second idea was to create an old family film of the whole family having a picnic or playing team games on the beach. We decided in the end that these weren't the best ideas as we had to rely on the weather and being the month of October this wouldn't be at all sensible.

     So we went back to mind maps and came up with some new ideas. We chose to base it around college as we would be able to film any day and wouldn't have to rely on the weather. We then thought about who could act in are video and we thought about the drama group. We know them quite well and knew they'd be the type of people to help us out and would co-operate with us. So we asked them and they said yes. We gave them a copy of the lyrics, and one of the girls said that she knew the song quite well and wouldn't mind being the lead. So we agreed and said that all you need to do is learn the lyrics, we told them our ideas. Then we asked them to all be wearing dull or not so brightly coloured clothing. And the lead to wear bright and vibrant clothes.

     We started filming on Monday 11th we filmed most of it in the morning and then we edited it in the afternoon. We didn't get all of the shots as we needed the green screen, but most of them were there and we were able to edit them and see our video. We have run out of time now but within the three days we are planning to try and finish using mine and Gemma's photography instead of the green screen and then Thursday 21st we will finish filming. Then Friday 22nd we will edit and complete the project. Hoping to finish the project and to create a good video and to gain the confidence to create a better video for the next music video project.

     For our next project we have a lot of things that we will do differently. Such as the ideas we decide upon we will make sure that they are possible for us to do first, so not just picking something going along with it and then it being a disaster and having alsort of problems trying to accomplish it. Also we will have to be more organised and stick to our plan. This time round we didn't and it became hard to keep up with the work and make our video successful.