Evaluation of preliminary task

1.What did you find the most challenging and why?

It may seem the simplest choice to some to decide on which music video they would like to copy. But I struggled with deciding which music video I wanted to do along side what my group wanted to do. I put forward three music videos which I thought would be suitable and other team members also gave some ideas.I am quite indecisive,but when my group liked the idea of 212 it seemed like the right one to pick and something we would be able to recreate. One thing I found challenging was getting everyone in the group to be involved, but I feel Courtney and I tried to involve everyone as much as possible as much as they were willing to be involved. At first I found the editing suite complicated to use, over 2 screens. However after a lesson with Ray the technician who helped explained how to film properly, then one to one time with my group we learnt the first basic techniques then experimented with different effects for our video.

2) What will you do differently when you make your A2 product next year?

I think next year will be different straight away, as a will be working independently. When it comes to creating my product next year I want to use more effects on my music video. So far we used a blur transition between different shots and slightly slowed down some clips. I would like to use a wider variety of effects, without making my music video look over the top and tacky. I am also going to use a slightly slower song I think, to ensure that the person in my video can act

3) How has doing this task helped you and why? What have you taken away from this experience?

This task has helped me to understand more of what A2 will include, it has also helped because I enjoyed the process of using the camera and the tripod to film and working out which shots needed to be taken. This has had an effect on my ideas of what I want to do next year within my media product. The experience of making the This task has actually has helped me to realize what I would like to go on and do after college,after looking into university which I hadn't really looked at before, I like the plan to go onto Leeds metropolitan to study media, which would need the skills I am developing my making the music video and my own task next year. I haven taken away that its vital to film more footage than you need because you can always cut it down but it's hard if you havnt taken the footage in the first place. Also that I need to allow myself enough time to do things as they take longer than you expect if you want them to be exactly how you planned.

4) How successful was your product? Why do you think it was successful or unsuccessful?

Our media music video recreation was successful. We put a lot of effort into getting every single shot the same distance away/close up and to last the same length of time as the origional 1 minute piece of video clip. It was also successful in my eyes because it is as good as I pictured it being in the planning processes, so it lived upto my expectations. For the first go at recreating a music video I feel my group and I did well. A downside could be that I felt we ran out of time to complete the clip fully, missing out on about 5 seconds by the time we had to screen it to the class. But Courtney and I managed to finish the video afterwards, for the finished one to be posted to the a2 blogs.  

5) How do you feel about developing to A2 level now you have completed this task?

I knew I wanted to anyway to carry on to A2, but I think the video task has just given me more of an idea of what it involves and I'm looking forward to starting next year and learning skills and techniques I can use for university to peruse media at Leeds met. I like that we got the time to do everything our selves and could ask for help if we needed it. For example in the editing stage, we got to experiment with styles and adding effects but if we got stuck it was set up so there was always someone we could ask for help from. 

6) What do you like most/least about your final product?

I liked the black and white alot in the final product, that's what made it seem very similar to the origional, even if we had copied it exactly shot by shot, if it wasn't in black and white it wouldn't look very realistic