Monday, 30 November 2015

Task 5- Understanding the techniques of music video 'Elton John and Kiki Dee'


When we decided to shoot this video we did this with two different cameras so that we could get in different shots at the same time and then choose which one suited which scene, in the actual filming process we decided to make more than 20 different shots but I only used 14 of those to have a different shot variety and to also have a bit of pace in the music video. When i was editing this work i was making sure that when they where singing we had footage where the singers lips sync was in time to the actual song, I also tried to make sure that when I was editing the work the parts in which they was only focusing on dancing matched up with what was actually going on in the song and also to the beat of the song, I also tried to change it up as much as possible so that you are not looking at the same footage throughout the whole time that you are watching it.

When we was doing this we had 6 people participating in this which meant that while the two people was singing the song we still had 4 people hanging around in the background which allowed them to set up all of the camera equipment and discuss what different shots that we should be using and doing, we also decided to use a dolly cam which allowed us to move around those who where singing to get a moving shot of them.

In conclusion i think that this was a good way for us to be able to understand the must do's in order to have a successful music video, we came to understand how important it is to also change up the shots that was been used and also why we should change the shots up. During the filming process of this we encountered problems which slowed us down, this included the singers not knowing the lyrics to the music video and because of that it slowed us down because when we was recording them they fell behind the song playing in the background so we had to reshoot the footage a few times to make sure that the lip sync was going to match up to the song

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