Week two blog reflection

Week two

                               http://taramanna2media.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/mash-up-video.html

At the end of last year we completed a video remake which was a really fun task for us to understand different music video styles. Me and Ella got Parody as our style, we found this hard as we couldn't think of anything funny at first, we realized we had to take something everybody knew and made it our own and funny. We used the harlem shake and made it funny using props and performance. When we was planning the video remake we had to research by looking at parody videos on YouTube and we also created a storyboard which meant we knew visually what we wanted to create, so we could go out and film what we drew by using the information. I personally would use a shot list rather than a storyboard as a storyboard is much more time consuming. I personally feel that shot list work better in terms of sticking to them as we used shot list in our BSR films.

The video remake i believe will help mainly when editing our real music video because we practiced using final cut which we haven't really used in depth, we used final cut when editing the music parts but slightly with our BSR films. I feel more confident with the program since the music video however i still need to expand on my skills to create the best edited video i possible could make. When creating the music video we also had to think of new camera movement and shots when filming which will also help when filming the real thing better. We also used the tripod more when filming the mash up video which will help if we are in the video otherwise it hasn't helped much. The main technical skill which i learnt was final cut.