Shooting practice: Music Video

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a music video. We shot our verse as a group and then created this post together.

Lesson Description: My teacher assigned each group a specific verse from "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles. We had to plan a scene which included various camera work and edits. After we chose a random verse from the song, the goal of this practice is to help us make mistakes right now and learn from it to prevent us from creating future casualties in the preparation of our main music video. Moreover, helping us to become comfortable with filming techniques and lip sync. 

First of all, we brain stormed of what is the context that we are going to implement in the short verse, and gather ideas on what type of camera angle, movement, as well as mise-en-scene that we are going to create. 

This is out storyboard: 

Behind The Scenes: 

As we are using 2 characters (1 main and 1 side character), it was hard to get the BTS Shoots as during the time one of our team member are excused. So here is a BTS shoot from the camera person.

This is the Google Drive file link of RAW video clips which included camera tests, shoot attempts, and bloopers.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19OHN2Td7YwuSd0v_Fox0XdjzRIBKDHTg

Final Video: 

Link: 

This clip is edited by my friend, Audrey. She worked with combining the clips, ensuring the song fit seamlessly with the scenes and that the actress' lip-syncing was accurate. CapCut was the preferred editing tool due to its convenience, speed, and cost-free access. She completed the edit in one Media Studies class period which is very time effective. To keep things simple, no special effects or color grading were added, preserving a natural landscape. For the upcoming music video project, however, the editing approach will prioritize visual appeal to better engage the audience.

Problem: Due to the short verse, we were confused on how to utilize the performance. We also has a back up video of different camera angle, however, it was not used due to the short amount of time.          Solution: We decided to discard the idea and make it straightforward so that it is also easy to follow.      Reflection: This mini project is fairly easy as me and my team got the easy lyric, however, due to the short amount of time that the chorus has me and my team was contemplating on what performance we should do. However, this mini project really helped me on my time management skill as well as enhancing my knowledge on camera angles and shots. Even though me and my team mates have additional scenes from different camera angles we ended up discard it as it does not goes well when we edited it. Moreover, we also decided to record our verse infront of a mirror, which is align with our real MV project that we also recorded some verse infront of a mirror (vanity) this practice also helped me and my team mates on blocking and positioning before taking the shoot.