Our one minute extract- The Script- For the First Time

The Original: (The first minute):



Compared to ours:



With this being our second one minute recreation, I feel that this extract has been far more successful than our first. Firstly, our shots are definitely more exact and detailed than the ones from our previous video;

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These shots are down to far more detailed use of camera angles, editing techniques, and similarities between the characters.

The shots are a great improvement, however I feel as though there is still room for improvement as you can see that our shots may not be of the exact same contrast as the ones in the shot; and this is something we can look to practice further and hopefully master.

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Overall, I feel that in doing this task we have improved greatly from our first attempt and we have improved well in many different areas. There is still things we can still improve though, such as practicing colour corrector in 'Final Cut Pro', before I feel that we can undergo our final task.

The Script- For the first time

For our second one minute recreation, me and Ben decided on recreating part of The Scripts 'For the first time' video; here's the original official music video:





We decided to recreate the first minute of the video as this was the easiest, and most 'accessible', part of the video to film.
After taking into consideration the results of our recent survey into audience's view on music, we had decided that recreating a video of 'The Script' would be best to match the appeal of the majority of audience.

There were many different techniques used in the music video that we felt would be a good challenge for us to recreate, and shots that we felt would further develop our cinematography and editing skills. In recreating this video, it was the ideal task for us to prepare for our final music video.

Furthermore, throughout the video, there are many different scenes in which a black and white contrast is used to create a more dramatic emotion, this was something which we felt would be ideal to emulate and learn how to use well, so that in our final video we could use to create an ideal effect to match the emotions of the video. For example;

 

One minute extract- Daphne and Celeste- Ooh stick you- evaluation

The original (From 0.32 seconds - 1.32 minutes);

Compared to ours;





As you can tell, this isn't the best extract we hope to make but here is how I feel we faired when looking at Cinematography, Editing, and Mise-en-scene;

Cinematography
We did our best to make sure the shots in both ours and the actual video were similar, but this was obviously hard to do so as we couldn't copy the exact surroundings and so we tried to find the closest background possible.
We also could not remake the exact costumes used by the people in the video (as is clearly displayed by Ben's wig), and so altered one shot in particular in order to remake just the bottom corner of the shot, in which Daphne and Celeste are involved, as opposed to the dancer in the centre screen.

Editing
Our editing was very basic and simple, there were no video transitions or filters that needed using in order to match the original video, and so the only minor problem we faced was to match the timing of our shots to match those in the video.

Mise-en-scene
There were a few props that we needed to use when recreating the video, although we didn't quite match those used in the real footage. Firstly, the wig Ben used was the closest thing we had to match him to the image of the girls, and so, thanks to limited resources, he looked nothing like either of them. Mise-en-scene was arguably the worst part of our recreation as almost all of our props and costumes were wrong in comparision to the actual video. This is something we will most definitely put more effort into during future filming.

                                                                      Not the best of similarities.....

Audience survey results

Survey for my target audience

I have produced a quick survey including relevant questions in order to allow me to gain a good view of which my audiences favoured appeal of music is.

How often do you listen to music?
1. Every day        2. Most days        3. Occassionaly       4. Rarely        5. Never

What is your favourite genre of music?
1. Rock        2. Pop        3. Hip Hop        4. House        5. Other

Do you prefer to listen to music on;
1. A music video        2. Audio        3. Other

Second one minute extract- The Script

Mine and Ben's initial one minute extract- Daphne and Celeste