2. What went well..
Our initial plan was to just recreate the ‘Hit Me baby One
More Time’ video but when we were discussing what
actors we were going to use we thought up an idea of
using various actors in replacement for Brittney. So when
you watch the video there is all in all 3 ‘Brittney's’. We
thought this worked well because it gives the video a bit of
a twist, and also so we didn't have to struggle finding
somebody who looked exactly alike Britney Spears. The
settings worked well, we was fortunate that our school is
quite traditional with the laminate floors, white boards
and thin corridors aligned with lockers. So this made it
look a lot like the real thing. We did copy some of the
shots from the real music video for example when there is
Brittney and girls behind her doing a dance sequence in
the corridor, when Brittney is tapping her pen at the very
beginning and also when she has her head against the
locker singing in a sorrowful way. These went really well,
with a full hiccups but overall it worked. The clothes the
students were wearing for example the boys in trousers
and unbuttoned shirts with no ties and messy collars; also
the girls white unbuttoned shirts, makeup and hair up in
bunches all put towards making the video as successful as
what it is. All the students in the class were enthusiastic
and confident, help us create the video with great ease.
3. Here we tried to rein-act the
emotion that Brittany was
showing by leaning her against
the lockers and making her put
on a sad expression. The hair
and white unbuttoned shirt
along with the grey cardigan
makes the image look very
similar.
When we did the dancing we exaggerated on the amount of students
Brittany had behind her and put double the amount. We did this not only to
differentiate our video from the official one but because we thought it would
look a lot more effective and dramatic.
4. What didn't work so well..
We had a lot of struggle with the lip syncing,
this was because we were literally only a few
seconds out but found it so hard to correct
that we just had to leave it on most parts.
Also because the girls who themed in the
video had never lip synced before, they
wasn’t brilliant at it, so some of the words
failed to look like their being sung. Also the
lighting in some of the corridor scenes wasn’t
as bright as we’d have liked it because of the
fact that the windows were so far down the
corridor and they were our only light source.
Also when we were editing it, we realised that
we hasn’t filmed a bell ringing or a clock
ticking, so we had to put in odd pictures we
found on Google to replace the bell and clock.
This took away the high quality of the video.
Lastly, the cameras we used were only around
a 3 gig, so the quality of the filming wasn’t as
good as the official video, and it kind of made
our video look a bit unprofessional.
5. What I have learned..
Through doing this preliminary task the, one of
the main things I have walked away with is skills
on the Adobe software. I now have a bit of
knowledge on how to get the lip syncing right,
and also adding music to your footage. I have
also discovered how hard it is to lip sync, this is
because you cant sing with the music, instead
you have to be very over enthusiastic. So its
harder than I thought it would be. Also in
future references when I am doing dance
routines I will have to make sure they are
thoroughly rehearsed and also present it so
that the strongest are at the front. Also I have
realised that when it comes to do my real
music video a camera that had 5 or more gig
will work most effictively.
