Music Video Evaluation

Overall I think that our video re-make was very successful. As a team we worked well to get the correct shots needed and didn't have to go back to film extra scenes. We managed to get all the necessary shots and edit them together in the same order as the original video.

I think that the group worked well to overcome problems such as pinning up backdrops and creating smoke for the shot with the smoking clock. We came together as a team and tried our hardest to re-create the props and mise-en-scene as the original video, paying extra attention the props in the background. We also took care when framing each shot in order to get it as close to the original as possible. We also worked well as a team in post-production editing the footage so that the shots were in time with the music and of similar length to the shots in the original video. We also managed to edit an image of a crowd at the end of the video which we figured out and edited as a team, and it made the video look better than before.

However, we could have made this video better by taking more time to set up proper lighting, improving the quality of the video, as some scenes in the final video were too dark and the quality was diminished. We could also have improved by spending more time finding locations, as the locations used were not the same as in the original video, and I think that we could have found better locations with more time and planning. But overall our team worked well to plan, shoot and edit the video, and the result was a video which is similar to the original and well put together. I am very pleased with the end product.

Final Video

Screenshot Storyboard

Shots for music video

Shots –

·      Rooftop with chimneys/high angle

·      Alarm clock/low lighting/mid shot

·      Alarm sets alight/camera shake

·      Zooms in womans face/mid shot

·      House roofs/CU/down and to the right

·      Clock/MS/clock shakes

·      House fronts/CU/upwards to the right

·      High angle/LS/from corner of room

·      Slippers/CU/from the left
    Hoover/from the left/Mcu/tilts up to arm
    Freddie enters/Mid shot/pan left/
    Woman with news paper/cu/
    Shot of house/ls/top left corner of room
    Hoovering/ms/Freddie and woman/follows left
    Woman face/cu/
    Girl legs in kitchen/mcu/tilts up to bum
    Living room/hoovering/ms/

Props and costumes for the Video

Locations - 
Louisa's house (Exterior/kitchen/bedroom)
Louisa's grandma's house (Living room)

Props –

Clock – torches/candles/lighter/string

Flowery bedding

Curlers

Dresser for clock

Spotty blanket/duvet for wallpaper

Hoover

Light/lamp

Newspaper

A door

Costumes -
Katie - Pink socks/fluffy rabbit slippers
            Pink nightdress
            Black wig
Evan - Mustache
            Black wig
            Pink crop top
            Leather skirt
            Black & pink bangles
            Pink earrings
Louisa - Stockings
              Straw hat
              Black skirt
              White shirt
Paige - Grey wig & hat
            Large coat
            Black gloves
            Pear earrings 

Video Choices

Choice 1: Queen - I want to break free

Choice 2: Eminem - Headlights

Group members and roles

Group members - Katie Hall, Louisa Jewitt, Paige Armstrong

Roles - Katie - woman in dressing gown
            Louisa - school girl
            Paige - sofa woman
            Evan - main character

Transition Project Brief

Working in groups of 3 or 4, plan and produce a reconstruction of a minute from an existing music video. Gather and evidence research into the conventions of the music videos with examples of the media form and the chosen genre.