When the group was set to film footage for the music video at Knebworth house, unfortunately I was unable to attend due to other commitments. Therefore I was forced to work out of the group with Lyle and use footage that we could obtain in a 1 hour lesson. Also the footage we could get was unconvincing compared to other groups as we could not use the scenery associated with Knebworth house. My group made the decision to use footage from another group and use some of the shots we acquired at school.
Lip syncing could be considered a success, although we did stumble upon one problem. It was difficult to lip sync in time with the music and we found that we had to slow down some of the footage in order to match with the lyrics of the song. Because of this problem parts of the final music video looked surreal and didn’t look natural. Although this predicament arose the final film, considering it was our first film was a learning curve and in my opinion worked well with the song lyrics and beat. Due to the lack of shots which we had, we decided to do a mastershot of the whole song so we could take segments from the master shot in order to replace any footage which discarded or had to deleted due to the quality of shots.
Editing was the biggest dilemma within the project. Adobe Premiere was not on our side during editing, every so often it would crash or not capture the footage which slowed down progress and in result we were unable to complete the editing and had a lack of final footage to show. Despite the ups and downs of the project I’m glad we had the chance before our class makes the decision of which project they will attempt.
