Finished Busted Video

Skills Developed During the Busted Video

I felt that during the busted video I have increased a number of skills, these include my ability to lip sink my music to the video I have. I also feel I am able to edit to a better quality, so it seems to flow more fluently than before. Also, during the post production, I realised I could slow down, speed up & a few other things on the videos.

However, after losing several pieces of footage (including the image to the right), I felt that the quality of the video was pretty bad. Due to me not being there the day of filming because of illness, it seems (due to human error) nobody checked they had every piece of footage needed, so I had to improvise with several of my takes. I will have to reflect on this on my actual video. I consider this a 'skill' of sorts, that I have learnt the hard way, to double check footage whilst still on site at the shoot, in case I need to re-shoot shots.

Post-Production: Digital Technology

After we uploaded the shots, we realised we had put them in the wrong format, meaning every single time we put a shot onto Adobe Premier, we had to press enter to render the shots before we could work with them. If we hadn't, it would have taken nearly an hour to export the finished product, this slowed us down considerably.
After we got the shots, due to human error, we realised we had forgotten to take some of the shots from the camera, so we had to take them back off, and luckily, the memory had not been wiped. Then, we realised we hadn't even filmed some of the shots we needed, including the two I mentioned in earlier posts.
So as I mentioned, we had to improvise with parts of it, I feel that the first half of the video isn't nearly as good as it should have been. However, I also feel that the second half makes up for it and looks to a decent quality.
During the process I taught myself how to slow down and speed up separate clips, as shown by the sped up 'Sex Ed' writing on the board.

Production

In Production, I learnt that, for my next project, I need to get actors who really don't mind being up close to the camera, as much of the time, when the camera was close, a lot of the actors got shy and started giggling, or kept trying to get the camera further back, which made the shot look much more amateurish and completely changed the shot itself.
Also, we missed out a few shots, so later, during the editing phase, we had to improvise shots to try and make it continue to flow, I feel we failed at that during the shot after the writing 'Sex Education', the teachers' head is supposed to turn, but we only had close ups of her face.

Production: Digital Technology

During the production stage of the task, I found that recreating lighting was a lot harder than I assumed it would be. I found it quite hard to get decent shots of people in the dark. After the production, I noticed that the light of the outside during darker shots got in the way quite badly, but by then it was too late to change it.
During the A2 Year, I would like to learn more about how to film with a camera in a professional way, I found that our shots looked quite amateurish in comparison. In fairness, it didn't help that we didn't get to pick people who really wanted to do it, to choose our cast, we just put our names into hats and picked out names, so the main 'characters' of Busted didn't really want to be in it, so they didn't put in maximum effort, which in fairness, is not their fault, most people are like that in front of a camera.
I would also like to increase my skills of editing, as I find the process very interesting, I feel I could have done a better job on the Busted video, if I were able to have more time editing it and taking my time.

Research & Planning

During the planning stage, it was very helpful to have a complete shot list, as it made us able to quickly compile a storyboard for the video. The shooting list was also incredibly helpful, as without it, we probably would have simply filmed the shots in order, and it would have taken much, much longer than if we had taken about 5-10 minutes creating this.
However, I wish we had been more sure about what was meant to go on in the shot lists, as we missed two pieces of footage, and since we were unable to go back and change it, I had to attempt to improvise the shots and try to make it look natural with footage we already had.
Some of the planning we did involved taking individual screen shots of the music video, then putting them into a storyboard which we could carry onto set with us. To the right is one of the screen shots we used in the storyboard.
During the A2 year, I believe I will have to compile storyboards, list personnel for the current task, research general conventions, write shooting scripts, list props needed, plan schedules, construct health & safety assessments, book equipment, actually gather the props and of course, scout out the areas I need to use.

Introduction to A2 Media

During the first few weeks of A2 Media, we have been working on recreating a Music Video, we used Busted - What I Go To School For.To do this we had to go through all the stages of Research, Planning, Production and Post Production. We worked as a team during the Research, Planning and Production stages, however, we split up and worked by ourselves for the Post-Production side of things.