Prelim Evaluation

We experienced a few difficulties when producing our prelim. As previously stated in another post (Filming for Prelim), the dance routine was probably the most difficult aspect of the prelim. I also found that editing was harder than I had expected, it was quite time consuming trying to edit to the beat as well as matching the lip-synch correctly. Towards the end of the prelim, at around 00:28, the lip-synch is slightly off, which is very distracting for the audience, for our final music video we will spend more time carefully editing to ensure that this mistake is not repeated. I also think that it would be helpful if we didn't include as much performance, this would cut down on the amount of lip-synching required.

Unlike the original video, we filmed outside of the school instead of on the street, this was for practical reasons, it would have been too busy to film in public, this would have made it harder to obtain the required shots. For our final music video, we would need to pay closer attention to our mise-en-scene to ensure that it is relevant to the chosen song and genre, thereby creating a more professional-looking video.

Whilst the setting was very different, we wanted our costumes to be as similar as possible. We put a lot of effort into our outfits and I am quite proud of the results. The best costume, in my opinion, was Janadhi's (below left) as she had an almost identical blazer. For the other costumes, we had to compromise and substitute certain items, for example, we didn't have black or white blazers so, instead, we wore other items of clothing but in the same colours (below right) so that it was clear which characters we were portraying.

              

We managed to match Jane to Bruno Mars almost perfectly (hat, chain, sunglasses) with the exception of the pink blazer.

 
I think that costume is an extremely important element of a music video as it helps to set the tone, for example, bright colours for an upbeat song, like our prelim, and darker colours for a sadder song. We will continue this attention to detail in our final music video.

Below is a vlog showing audience reactions to our prelim. I thought that this was helpful as I could listen to criticisms from an outside perspective to see how others thought we could improve.