Prelim Day

The preliminary task day came by and my group and I were feeling fairly confident with our planning and preparation. We had chosen what key shots we would specifically like in our thirty second clip of the track.

Considering we had been allocated the opening to the track, it was important that we convey the band's star image as soon as the track began. In preparation we had created a rough timeline of where we wanted to place our key shots for the first thirty seconds of the track.

Me helping set up with the lead singer, Sam

We wanted our opening shot to be a wide shot of the set, and then seeing the band walk onto it and set up. We wanted to convey Acres of Life's very laid back attitude and the fact that it is not in their nature to hide anything, they expose themselves and their unique image - just as we expose the set-up before the actual shoot.

We had a quick reminder and introduction on how to use the film camera's and then moved onto filming our shots. With only half an hour for each group to complete the shots we wanted, we had to be very efficient as a group and direct with what we wanted to do.

I managed on playback, as the director and worked mostly on camera. We knew what shots we wanted to use, but we were quite slow at the start and took too long to work on what shot we ought to film first. We ought to have planned our time more carefully, but with just enough time to spare, we filmed all the key shots we wanted with a few extra.

Me working on camera

I learnt to be more firm and direct and to have to think on my feet and make decisions quickly in a limited amount of time. I also learnt how to deal with different types of people as I worked with the band and with people in my group collaboratively.

The prelim task I felt helped my directory skills the most. I had noticed at the beginning of our shoot that one of the band members was feeling quite nervous. I took him aside and encouraged him to peform his best - I even had to dance manically to the song backstage to encourage the members to perform their best and 'let themselves go'. Thankfully this put the band in a good mood and, despite my embarrassment, they gave us a good performance!





Working in progress

I found the editing task quite fun and it seemed this was something my group was strong at doing. We used final cut pro software to edit our shots together and create our product.

We finished in about an hour and after checking and watching over the few clips, we were pleased with our final result. I learnt through the editing process to cut shots in beat and time with the song and also how to bring the music video 'to life' by speeding up the editing and using short, quick cuts in time with the music.







Below is a video of our final product. I contributed from 0s - 35s.