Analysis of a Professional Product

Foo fighters – Times Like These

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Location Planning

We planned to travel to London to take photos of the locations we will be using in or music video, however when we arrived at the train station, we found out the trains had been delayed and eventually suspended, this left us with a big porblem which we still need to fix.

Knebworth Filming

At Knebworth our brief was to film shots for a summer music video, therefore we needed a song, which was deemed summery; we chose to do Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks. I worked with George Blackwell and Laurence Kingdon. We had a fairly short timescale to work in, considering we needed to get every shot for the music video in 2 hours. Before we left the school we had prepared what we were going to do whilst there, we practiced a range of different filming techniques, such as changing focus, whip pan, shots that can be reversed and a 360° shot, as well as practicing fast and slow zooms and walking towards the camera. We also filmed lip synching in front of a green screen so we could learn how to use it in editing.

Whilst filming we had many shots that worked and many that didn’t, of those that didn’t we had one of the first shots we had taken, this was because Laurence didn’t lip synch a word, however we didn’t notice this until we came to editing, however a shot that did work was opening shot of the music video, this is because we successfully used a zoom and lip synching successful as well, it also sets the scene of where we were filming.

In the post production we found out we didn’t have all of the shots that we thought we had taken, and some of the ones we did have didn’t work, however we fixed this by going a filming in the first part of the lesson we had, this worked as all we needed was grass and hedges. During editing we also noticed that we had a lot of black spaces in between shots, to fix this we had to cut shots we already had and then slow them down so that they fill up the empty space, the problem with doing this a lot was the shots that lasted long were boring, therefore we added some special effects so that the viewer didn’t get bored, in the end we split the shot into 4 parts and changed the colours on them, through doing this I have learnt more skills and now know what I can do if the problem comes up again.

Overall I feel that this exercise has prepared me to some extent for A2, it has helped me realise what will work well and what wont. In the end I felt that although our music video worked it was still a bit messy and could be a lot better.­­­ Even though this didn’t turn out too great, I still wouldn’t be put off doing a music video for my A2 production.