At the beginning of our A2 syllabus we had one morning to do our preliminary task, which was to make a third of the music video for a band called 'Acres of Life'. The song which we had to shoot and edit the video for was 'Doctor vs Cupid' and after our class got split into three groups each group had to do one section of the song.
Before the shoot we did some planning in order to be more organized on the day especially since we had such a little amount of time to get done with it. So we made a band shooting timeline:
0:00 Lead shot with Band in Background (silence)
0:01 Drum Shot (Close up)
0:02 Wide Shot
0:06 Close up of Singer
0:10 Mid Shot (GTR)
0:13 Close up of GTR
0:15 Close up of Drums
0:19 Wide Shot
0:25 Mid Shot of VOX
0:28 Close up of VOX
0:32 Wide Shot
0:36 Close up of Bass
0:39 Mid close up of BV with Drums
0:43 Close up of Bass Drum Pedal
0:46 Mid Shot of VOX
0:51 Mid Shot of GTR
0:54 Mid Shot of Bass
0:58 Close up of VOX
1:01 Wide Shoot
As I noticed on our shoot day we didn't really stick exactly to it, partly because we didn't manage to get all the 11 shots done in our 30 minutes of shooting time which we had and partly because something else just looked better as we were editing the video.
On the shoot day we got into the studio and everything was already set up for the prelim, which is good so we were very quick in shooting what we needed. One problem that we had was that the band didn't arrive on time so we were all slightly behind in our time plan, which was a little annoying.
In the shoot our whole group worked together very well and everyone took a turn at doing everything so we were very constructive and got a majority of the planned shots done. The shots we were planning to do were:
- Wide Shot: whole song
- Close up of VOX: whole song
- Mid Shot of VOX: whole song
- Mid Shot of GTR: whole song
- Close up of GTR: whole song
- Close up of Drums: whole song
- Close up of Bass: whole song
- Mid Shot of Bass: whole song
- Lead Shot: for 10 seconds
- Close up Bass drum pedal: 0:40 - 0:50
- Mid shot BV with Drums: whole song
We did pretty much everything but one shot which we would have really liked to do was the 'Lead Shot' which is a pan along the leads ending up on the band but we ran out of time.
We did the editing of the video on the same day and it didn't take us long either. The editing of a music video is different than the editing of a normal film sequence. So what you do is that you put all your shots on top of each other on the time line of final cut- as long as this is the performance aspect- and then just keep taking out the parts you don't like until you reach the last layer and then you piece it together to make up the video, keeping your timeline in mind. Another thing you had to do was to synch the sound and as every video had the original sound recorded you just arrange it at the beginning and don't move it again. The way you do it is to look at the sound bars of the videos and line up the places where the bars reach up the highest.
Overall I really liked the shooting and editing of our preliminary task this year because unlike last year it was very organized in my group. I also like the outcome of it and I think for that it was our first performance video it looks pretty good. Of course it doesn't look as professional as proper music videos but we don't have the skill yet to do that. I think my group worked together really well and we got everything done in time without a lot of arguing.
Before the shoot we did some planning in order to be more organized on the day especially since we had such a little amount of time to get done with it. So we made a band shooting timeline:
0:00 Lead shot with Band in Background (silence)
0:01 Drum Shot (Close up)
0:02 Wide Shot
0:06 Close up of Singer
0:10 Mid Shot (GTR)
0:13 Close up of GTR
0:15 Close up of Drums
0:19 Wide Shot
0:25 Mid Shot of VOX
0:28 Close up of VOX
0:32 Wide Shot
0:36 Close up of Bass
0:39 Mid close up of BV with Drums
0:43 Close up of Bass Drum Pedal
0:46 Mid Shot of VOX
0:51 Mid Shot of GTR
0:54 Mid Shot of Bass
0:58 Close up of VOX
1:01 Wide Shoot
As I noticed on our shoot day we didn't really stick exactly to it, partly because we didn't manage to get all the 11 shots done in our 30 minutes of shooting time which we had and partly because something else just looked better as we were editing the video.
On the shoot day we got into the studio and everything was already set up for the prelim, which is good so we were very quick in shooting what we needed. One problem that we had was that the band didn't arrive on time so we were all slightly behind in our time plan, which was a little annoying.
In the shoot our whole group worked together very well and everyone took a turn at doing everything so we were very constructive and got a majority of the planned shots done. The shots we were planning to do were:
- Wide Shot: whole song
- Close up of VOX: whole song
- Mid Shot of VOX: whole song
- Mid Shot of GTR: whole song
- Close up of GTR: whole song
- Close up of Drums: whole song
- Close up of Bass: whole song
- Mid Shot of Bass: whole song
- Lead Shot: for 10 seconds
- Close up Bass drum pedal: 0:40 - 0:50
- Mid shot BV with Drums: whole song
We did pretty much everything but one shot which we would have really liked to do was the 'Lead Shot' which is a pan along the leads ending up on the band but we ran out of time.
We did the editing of the video on the same day and it didn't take us long either. The editing of a music video is different than the editing of a normal film sequence. So what you do is that you put all your shots on top of each other on the time line of final cut- as long as this is the performance aspect- and then just keep taking out the parts you don't like until you reach the last layer and then you piece it together to make up the video, keeping your timeline in mind. Another thing you had to do was to synch the sound and as every video had the original sound recorded you just arrange it at the beginning and don't move it again. The way you do it is to look at the sound bars of the videos and line up the places where the bars reach up the highest.
Overall I really liked the shooting and editing of our preliminary task this year because unlike last year it was very organized in my group. I also like the outcome of it and I think for that it was our first performance video it looks pretty good. Of course it doesn't look as professional as proper music videos but we don't have the skill yet to do that. I think my group worked together really well and we got everything done in time without a lot of arguing.
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