Evaluation question

1. What did you find most challenging about recreating your chosen video and why?


I found creating a story board challenging as it was hard to recognize each scene, it was also hard to then recreate the scenes on a still shot that we had for the storyboard, to overcome this we had to use a laptop to see each scene and what fully happened so that we could accurately recreate the scene. I also found editing hard to do as we was using software which was new to us and so this took us a long time to adapt and find out how to use this, to overcome this we looked sites such as YouTube to get tutorials and help in order to use the software correctly. We struggled to find an actor that was able to recreate David Bowie due to his different style but we managed to get around it by adjusting the mise en scene of our character.


2.What problems did you face whilst filming?


We struggled to make sure that everyone turned for each part of our video as when we did our storyboards there was people in our group who did not turn up and so this meant that they were confused when it came to filming as they was unaware of each scene and the details of it. A positive that we had for our filming was that we had a good amount of time to film within although we had to re film some of our shots as at times they were not to a good quality. We struggled to film certain scenes accurately which was due to the size of our room as the long shots where difficult to re create as we did not have the room. Our actor struggled with timing with his miming and this led to us having problems with our editing as it was hard to make the scenes fit with the song and when the lyrics were sung.


3.How did you overcome these problems?


To overcome our first problem we used social media to organize when people were in school and so we could send our work to them so that they could look at the work so they had a good idea of what they have to do when they get into school. To re film our scenes we organized a day where our actor would where the same costume as he did last time and so this allowed us to get a accurate video, we also organized a day which suited each person. To overcome our room size issue we used the zoom on the camera so we could zoom out further, we also used chairs to gain height on our actor for high angle shots. To overcome the actors timing issue we ensured our timing was to a good standard so that it appeared in time with the song.


4.Which problems could you not overcome? (were some instruments harder than others to source, could you recreate the look of an artist, could you dress the set, were some shots impossible to emulate?)
A large problem that we had was that we could not get the correct guitar for the video as the real guitar had a strap on it where as ours did not and so this was a negative for our video and also restricted how good our video was as we then struggled with some shots. We also could not restyle our actor to make a accurate representation of David Bowie as we struggled with make up for our actor and also the mise en scene such as clothing. It was also very hard to emulate some of the movements that David Bowie made in his video and so this means that our video was not as accurate as we would have liked.


5.What next steps are you going to take?


I am going to do some research into how to use our editing software effectively so that we do not rush our editing and so that we have a good idea of what to do as otherwise we may not be able to get a good video. I am also going to lots of research into music videos so I have a good idea of what we need to do and how they look and run.