Practice music video

On Monday we finished filming for our practice music video as we followed our storyboard. It was difficult to try and copy every camera shot of the first part of the music video but we did it!

Lip Syncing Practice

In last Friday's lesson we made a lip syncing practice video for the song 'Tik Tok' which we will use as our practice music video.

First Idea

This is our first song choice for our music video.

	What went well	What could you improve?
Digital Technology
Using flip camera.	Quick and easy to use. Also good quality.	A wider variety of shots.
Uploading to youtube.	Able to upload videos on our blogs and allowed others to view our film opening.	More drafts uploaded.
Blogging to track progress.	Show our planning, research and progress.	Blog more often.
Using voiceover.	Fit in with theme and was clear.	Create a few drafts using the voice recorder.
Creativity
Voiceover.	Fit in with film and created an opening storyline.	Plan more.
Flashbacks.	Effective and made our film look more mysterious.	More transitions.
Music made on GarageBand.	Created a mysterious atmosphere to fit in with our film genre.	Add more of a variety of sounds to our music.
Use of fire.	Effective and caught the audience’s attention.	A wider variety of shots of the fire.
Music.	More mystery atmosphere to the film.	Add more variety of sounds to our music.
Credits.	Simple enough to keep the audience focused on the opening storyline.	Use a bigger font.
Research and planning
Film Company research.	Creating logos and effects.	Used a picture in our logo.
Watching other film openings.	More ideas and more creativity.	Too many unrealistic ideas to make our film opening.
Using conventions from real media texts
Watching other film openings.	The Last Song opening inspired us to use the idea of fire.	Too many unrealistic ideas to make our film opening.
Idea of voiceovers.	Created a clear opening storyline.	Could have been confusing.

An example of a music video that features a lead male vocalist

Change Your Mind - Boyce Avenue

An example of a music video that has a narrative element

But It's Better If You Do - Panic! At The Disco

Introduction to A2 Media Studies

On Monday we had our first lesson of A2 Media! It's really exciting and I'm really looking forward to start working on our Music Videos and researching into media!