Prelimary 'Busted' Music Video

Post-Production

We edited in large groups of about seven, which was difficult as it was hard for us to all have something to do at once. We spent a lot of time trying to get the footage transferred onto Jack's mac laptop but encountered problems which were quite time consuming.
The editing itself needed a lot of time and effort and the lip syncing took a lot of concentration to get perfect. To keep the lip syncing looking natural and fitting to the music, we had to chop out an instrumental part in the introduction but this proved beneficial to the over-all finished piece.
I feel that since doing the preliminary exercise I have gained a slight understanding of editing, as I have never used imovie before, and i'm looking forward to broadening my skill and understanding when we start our coursework.

Production

Our class split into two groups and half of us filmed the outside section and the other half filmed the inside section. I was in the group filming outside and took the role of director. I enjoyed doing this as acting is not my strong point and enjoyed taking control of making our scene look as similiar as possible to Busted's scene. Everybody worked together really well and put in a big amount of effort which made our filming easy and smooth and we managed to finish in a lesson. The problems we encountered were not having enough extra's to dance in the background but we overcame this by making some people stand more forwards than others, to create the impression that they were more bunched together than they were. Luckily, we had a laptop outside with the music video on it so we could keep checking back to see exactly what we needed to do. Another problem we encountered was that the video camera we used had a fade-in, fade-out at the beginning and ending of filming.
The next day, I helped the other group finish filming their inside half of the video by being an extra at the back of the classroom. There were numerous continuity errors and as we had two groups, we had two 'Busted's' but our teacher assured us that given the situation, this could be over-looked.

Pre-Production

In preparation for creating our re-make of the Busted music video 'What I Go To School For', we watched the first minute and fourteen seconds of it a few times over and made a prop list of everything we saw that we'd need in the re-creation. We did this a few times to make sure that we had everything written down and then wrote a risk assessment. Writing the risk assessment was quite difficult and proved to need a lot of detail and at points we struggled to think of things to include and thought maybe some of the things we had written were too obvious. But luckily we didn't miss anything out. We divided the video into 30 second sections and split off into pairs to storyboard. This proved time efficient as we all had a small and simple work load. We created a cast list including the three members of the band, Miss McKenzie and a couple of students, as well as all the extra's we'd need.

Preliminary Risk Assessment

Preliminary Storyboard