8 Music Videos.

Evaluation of Music Video.

Pre Production:
We were put into a group of eight and assigned the task of recreating the Arctic Monkeys music video 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.' As a group we had to make a storyboard for our video, we watched the official video multiple times to assist us when making our own storyboard. We also had to assign specific roles for each person in our group for when it came to filming, the band required four members, we used three cameras so each one of them needed a person assigned to it. We decided what each band member should wear as a group, everybody's input helped us decide what each person would wear for the filming. Louis and I had the idea of using the drama room for filming so we booked a day after school where we would be able to get on with the task without being disturbed, it was also beneficial doing it after-school as we could be as loud as we needed to be without causing any problems for anyone else. We also asked the music department at college if we could borrow all of the equipment necessary after-school which helped us a lot, otherwise we would've had to get all of the equipment ourselves.
Production:
On the day of filming we all arrived at the drama room and set up the lighting to how we wanted it, we then went to pick up all of the music equipment from the music department in college. The novelty of doing all of our filming in one day meant that there were no limitations with filming as everyone was wearing the same clothes throughout, whereas if we had done it throughout the course of a few days it would only take one person to forget to bring the correct shirt and it would prevent filming. Whilst referring back to the storyboard we took an approach to filming where the cameramen would do their own thing and the band would continue to perform, this allowed the cameramen to get all of the shots they needed and there was no confusion. On the day of filming one person didn't turn up, however we managed to cope without them as we had all four band members and a person on each of the camera's. Sachin took on a director's role alongside myself as we both offered different perspectives of the performance, this helped us maintain quality when making our video.
Post Production
After we had finished filming we took to the Mac's to begin editing, we had used three SD cards and Sachin took it upon himself to put all of our footage onto one so we could see everything we had filmed to choose the best shots. Everybody contributed to the editing however Sachin took on the lead role as he was much more confident than everyone else when using the editing software. We had to remove the audio from every clip and then put the song on over the top, we then had to make the music synchronise with what I was saying to make it seem as though it was me singing. We ended the video with the music fading out rather than having an abrupt stop and the video faded into a blackout in time with the music.

A2 Media Preliminary Task - Arctic Monkeys 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' // Lip Syncing

Official Arctic Monkeys Music Video - 'I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor'

Storyboard - Arctic Monkeys 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'

A2 Coursework Schedule - 2015/16

A2 Lutterworth College Media Studies Coursework Schedule 2015-2016