Music video exercise

This years first exercise we got given by our tutor Roddy, was to create a music video from a song in the album, 'Now That's What I Call Music! 85' and our crew decided to choose PJ & Duncan's - Let's Get Ready To Rumble. We chose a happy and upbeat song to match the footage that we filmed, because the brief said that at least one of us had to perform and lip sync in it, so we decided that we should all take part and split the lyrics between the 4 of us.

Before we started with the filming, we had to plan out ideas of what and how we are going to film and after a lot of thinking and planning we had decided what we wanted to do. Watching One Direction's Kiss You music video inspired us to create a video similar to theirs with the use of green screening and different types of props.

We used studio B in University as it was easy to just carry the kit to the next room, we filmed using the XDCAM for the main scenes of the video and then used mine and Jess Remnant's DSLR's to film behind the scenes footage, which we added in to video to show the audience that we were actually having fun whilst creating the music video because it is a fun song. For the music video all of us had to learn the dance for the chorus and also learn our individual lyrics for each of our parts, this was difficult because the dance was difficult once it was sped up. The dance consisted a lot of spinning around and jumping, a couple of us couldn't do it properly and one of the crew members had also had a major operation on their leg, so they couldn't proper go for it but in the end we managed to make the dance work out. As it was our first time using the green screen in the studio, we had to get the technicians to help us rig the lights in the room, making sure that there was no shadow on the green screen, as this will effect the outcome if there was. We filmed using the XDCAM as it is much easier to transcode the footage format through Avid Media Composer.

Our first time using Avid Media Composer to edit our music video, this gave us the chance to play around with Avid with the knowledge we had from the tutorial in the lectures with Catalin Brylla, not only did we have do a basic edit but we also had to learn how to chroma key in the green screen, luckily we had Charles, one of the technicians there to help us if we were really in need of help.

Next time when we have to work with a green screen or Avid, I think we can minimise the problems we encountered for the first time round, like they say practice makes perfect!