Evaluation of reconstruction of a music video

1 second into the video (first camera shot) as you can see we needed to reconstruct the lighting, camera angle and distance of the shot. As you can see our shot wasn’t as good as the music video due to space.

Camera movement for the future 4 seconds: slightly to the left and downwards, then to the right slightly while it zooms towards the artist

 

 

This shot was hard to film due to the spacing within the room, and also the fast speed (zooms), although this was hard to film, I feel it worked well and looks like the shot from the official music video we chose to reconstruct.

5-7 seconds

here we can see the artists taking off a necklace.

As a group we would have preferred to film further away, this was last minute filming. We have learnt to do more planning and preparation for this task if it happened to occur again, as you can see the clothing and lighting is basically the same showing how the reconstruction has worked a little within this shot.

 8 seconds

9-10 seconds

11 seconds

Our version of these seconds and shots

(8-9 seconds)

(10-11 seconds)
 as you can see we have tried to reconstruct this to the exact seconds however it has been cut short, and we would have added this if we had more time to edit.


11-12 seconds

half way between 11 and 12 seconds this is the official shot within the music video

 

just over 12 seconds

 

we struggled to get the contract and lighting exact however, grace came up with an idea to cover the lense with a plastic wallet to give the blurred effect which I feel worked well within this shot.
 

13-14 seconds

Within this shot the actor we were using became tired and failed to reconstruct the scene fully as you can see in the music video we created, we therefore had to cut the video short and then extended this shot in slow motion to make the scene longer. The reconstruction isn’t exact as we missed a minor detail of which shoulder the jacket is taken off from.

15-17 seconds

    




We tried to reconstruct this scene by placing a torch in front of our actor, however is isn’t as bright as the official music video which was a fault of our own and also the  shot is blurred which isn’t the effect we wanted to create. This would have worked better if we had followed the actor while walking however due to lack of time we didn’t think about this.

18-19 seconds

this shot is less than a second long, of the artists singing while checking his phone, the location is very distinct and the lighting is dominant on the artist.

to recreate this we held a light in front of the actors face to show the dominance of the actor, we also looked at camera angles which we tried to recreate. There is no movement within this shot, we had to ensure the actor and artists were using the same lyrics within this scene so we did this on the editing suite to recreate this scene. The location was also thought about in this scene.
 

20-21.5 seconds

in this shot the camera seems to be blurry and there are two girls walking in front of the camera. The camera angle is distinct as it focuses on the bodies and not the faces of the girls which shows there dominance or little dominance within this music video.



to recreate this we used a tripod supplied by the college and filmed this within the theatre, unfortunately due to the environment the lighting wouldn’t work as well as the music video because you can’t alter the lighting within the theatre, it would have been better if the walking positions were the same and also we looked at the costume of the girls and thought about what each of us would wear the recreate this scene.

 

22-23.5 seconds

as you can see the artists isn’t in full focus because of the lighting however he is dominant within the shot and is singing into a microphone, we assume he was on a stage as there are instruments behind him, you can tell he is singing because of his body movement within the music video.



we instructed our actor to pretend he was singing the song and moving at the same time as the artist, the camera distance wasn’t thought about however we wanted to create the shots of the artist and actor as similar as we could, however due to the actor being quite tall it was hard to recreate because the tripod doesn’t extend as much as we would have liked it to. We tried to recreate the background as much as we could, however due to lack of resources this was unachievable.

 

23.5-25 seconds

camera movement- pivots anti clockwise artist remains still in this shot, the lighting seems distant and he is looking at a certain point to maintain his stillness within the shot.

 

this is our recreated shot, as you can see the lighting isn’t brilliant and neither is the resolution, however the reconstruction works well.

 

I think overall this was a hard task to do as we have never done a reconstruction before, I think the most important aspects of this task were to plan and research each shot in more depth and also the timing issue was a problem as we didn’t have long to recreate this. I feel we worked well as a group and I think if we overcame these issues I have suggested we could have made a more successful reconstruction of this music video. I personally found it hard because I am not producing a music video for my coursework, however, I feel that the planning I need to do and also make sure that I time each part of my filming effectively and make sure that lighting, camera angles and movement, costumes and editing if thought about carefully. I feel this task has helped us develop our camera skills and also gave us a vague idea of how to make a music video.