PRELIMINARY TASK
Genre of my practice music video.
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At the start of September, I got to know that we have to make a practice project, this could have been a music video or a documentary, as it seemed easy, I chose music video.
Our instructor told us that we just need to copy a music video for now, so we decided to look for a music video to copy. We decided to chose a narrative structure music video as it was intriguing.
The name suggests that these music videos narrate a story, the director can tell any story through a music video. These music videos have a beginning, a middle and a proper end for the story. The video stories can be as clear or vague as the director wants them to be.
The music video we chose was Let Me Down Slowly ; Alec Benjamin
The location of the shoot was my Group member's house so he was already there At around 10 in the morning, I picked the actors up from their house and we went to the shoot together. We were done from the shoot at 5 pm. At first we got to the location and we started to move stuff around that would interfere with the shoot, a couch was in the room that we had to remove. We also had to tidy up the bed and untidy the table with some props that I bought on the way.
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This is a BTS Video of the shoot:
After all that, it was time to take some shots, I grabbed the camera and my group member grabbed a copy of our script and we shot almost half of the script by 2 pm. We went out for lunch and then came back, completed the shot and headed back home....
After the shoot, we had to get the footage together so that i can edit conveniently. At first the footage was just a mess.
I spent about 5 hours getting the footage from this mess
After a long time of sorting the footage, I numbered and arranged the final footage.
This made it very easy for me to edit footage after this point.
After getting the footage in order, i started editing and made a sequence. After spending about a night, I came up with a sequence.
Here is a time-lapse of me editing this footage.
After a long time, this was the preliminary music video I made.
Even though the project was not too great, We got to learn a lot from it. There were many times where I thought that this project has a lot of issues, during editing there were a lot of things that went un-noticed during the shoot. There were a lot of problems with the footage itself, there were a lot of lip-sync errors, Most of the footage was grainy and the color grading was not too good. There was a lot of things we had learnt from this music video going wrong,