Finished preliminary

Here is our finished prelim 

What difficulties did you encounter during the process of creating your preliminary?

Before even beginning to create our prelim, we found it quite difficult to choose a song to copy, as they tend to be to highly advanced, with the technology they used.  To begin with, we were planning to recreate "Falling" by HAIM, (video is below) as it incorporated more than one protagonist, which we wanted to experiment with, however the setting and mise en scene was far too extravagant for the facilities we had, which took us back to the drawing board. We then as a group decided to do Carly Rae Jepson "I really really like you" as we found this song to be more practical but was still pushing our previous skills.  Once we had chosen the song and the section to use, and started filming, we found using the new camera for the first time (The DSLR) was more technical, as you had to make sure to focus on the correct point, as during shot 4, when Lauren jumps up, it would not focus on her, it would focus on the background, so we had to film before hand to get her in the shot then she ducked so it would still focus on her. Another problem we encountered was the fact we was unprepared when filmed, as the camera had a low battery, we didn't have any props or miss en scene and had not planned where we was filming, which taught us all to plan thoroughly before filming. Also, as we were filming, we only played the section of the song out loud we was filming, which we thought worked well, however, when we had to cut scenes, we realised that we had not started the song at the correct part, so when filming the final project, we plan on playing and filming the whole song just in case. And finally, when comparing the actual video to our prelim, you noticed to delay in actions, though only minor, it was noticed, which made us realise, we should take our time filming to make sure all the actions and lip syncing matched up, as it only took us less than a day to film and edit, we defiantly could have spent longer on the process. 

What are you most proud about in your prelim? 

During the process, i found that just seeing the final product, completed is what I'm most proud about, seeing it filmed, edited and put together makes me feel proud, that my group and i created this product. Although i am proud that we was able to replicate the video with good quality and for lip syncing for the first time, i feel it was a good attempt and we have learnt vastly, but will need more attempts before the final product. If i were to pick one section of the clip that i am most proud of is the section where the shot changes from shot 3 to 4, when Lauren jumps up from the bathroom to the street, as i feel the timing was accurate and when showing our video to the class, they also commented on this.

What have you learned that you WILL or WILL NOT do in your music video?

By creating our prelim, theres certain aspects that we have learnt to do for our music video, including the fact of playing the song fully out loud and film while doing so, and also, take time in filming and editing to make sure every section is perfect and if not, don't be afraid to re film just to get in perfect. Another point noted, is the fact that this video did not involve a lot of editing techniques which we plan on using in music video.