Before the exercise, I familiarised myself with the song and lyrics, enabling us to start recording promptly. Once in the studio, we were briefed on the task we had to complete. Tom and Matt introduced us to each of the sets: the first being a static camera on a tripod, set to film a sore in front of a coloured tiled screen as a back drop, this camera was a Canon 5D Mark 3, meaning instead of a simple twist to zoom, we had to change the whole lens. When focussing this camera we also had to use a measuring tape from the focus symbol, to the performer's face, and then enter this into the camera. The second set was a cave like structure, with the camera on a dolly, allowing us to use some interesting shots. The third and final set was a green screen, allowing us to use different compositions within the frame and vaguely learn about how green is an easy colour to cancel out and replace with a different background, and works well and not many people commonly wear green. Once in the edit suite we began working straight away using Premiere, which is a simple and effective piece of software.
After syncing all of our footage with the track we then began cutting the video together. We found it was easiest to cut between shots when a word came to an end or was beginning of a word, We also found the shots of us simply dancing around and not singing were useful as cut away's and to go in between shots. From filming and editing the music video I learnt it is important to have a complete mixture of shots and different compositions enabling you to create a video which flows and connects together smoothly. We also struggled with lip syncing some of the clips, so next time we will try to make sure the sound needed to sync the video and soundtrack is more prominent and able to hear.
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