AS1: Task 5 - Understand the techniques of music videos

Understand the techniques of music videos 

How I created the video:

To create the video was very simple as there were only two people needed to stand and sing in front of the camera. To ensure that the video were to be effective, we had to do include a variety of different shots similar to what we saw in the Elton John and Kiki Dee music video. The shots included were:

- Close up 
- Mid-low 
- Mid close-up 
- Master shot 
- Dolly shot (tracking shot). 

Whilst filming, we had to consider the amount of space needed to film the music video because there were to be plenty of movement when doing a shot such as the tracking shot. After we knew where we wanted to film our music video we began practicing so that when it came down to filming we could avoid mistakes and delays. As we practiced, we had to consider the amount of different shots we had to take which made us aware of the very little time we had, which is when the positioning of the camera came into the process. There we a lot of takes needed because my colleague and I weren't familiar with the every single word in the song and so we found this difficult to sing on the spot. After we practiced and took as many takes as possible to confirm that we were ready, 

This time, the process of editing the music video was much more difficult, and I say this because of the editing part of this task. My challenge was to match up the music with our singing in the video and to do this, I had to play and pause the video repeatedly; this was done so that none of my shots weren't a second ahead or a second behind the audio; I needed everything to be perfect.   I used the marker tool to prevent this from happening, and found that this tool was particularly helpful with cutting and blending two different shots together, which is what I did plenty of whilst editing. To make the Elton John song cover our voices, I had to drag the clips onto a small box that was shown underneath the clip I wanted, and then dragged the clip from it and placed it onto the timeline. This was how I lip synced the footage as well.

1) I used Premiere Pro to edit the music video, and began importing the clips my group and I, had filmed.  

2) One by one, I dragged the audio along with the clips I wanted onto the timeline. When doing this,I had to take my time and be patient because I had to match the movement and actions in the clips with the audio that I had to include. 

3) The next step was for me to make sure that there were no errors. The way in which I avoided this was by using the pen tool. This tool allowed me to create these little dots on the yellow lines that appeared on each clip. Once I placed them on, I could then drag them anywhere I wanted to which allowed me to blend in two different shots together and show a shot for any amount of time. 

4) My video was finally complete and added text in the end which included the details  of the song and my name.