// Preliminary Task- Overview //

Below is the final product for our preliminary task:

The song used is BUNK- Feat The Palmer Squares, the video for which can be found at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-byenOdnSkE

The task set was to recreate a 30 second section of a Music Video, shot for shot, taking into account the camera and composition used, and less focus on the mise en scene, or the props. However also the editing would have to match up as in the video to fully recreate the chosen section.

To film the shots, we used a Nikon DSLR with the microphone muted(no sound required) and then filmed our actor actually singing along to the song being played out loud through a speaker. This allowed the actors lips to be in time with the music, and all we would need to do in post-production would be to sync the song with the footage instead of having to speed up/slow down the footage. We made sure to film extra at the start and end of each clip, with the actor signing a few lines before and after the ones we needed for that shot, this way we could easily cut the footage down to size instead of not having enough in the first place, and ensured that we captured every word needed for the shot.
We filmed similar shots at the same time and not in chronological order, which was easier as it meant we didnt keep having to move the set back and forth where shots are returned to later in the section. This saved valuable time that could be better used in post. The manual focus lens on the DSLR allowed us to capture a out of focus shot that otherwise would have been very difficult to take, or would have meant SFX blurs having to be used to recreate the effect in post.

In post production we used final cut express to put our clips together and sync to the mp3 track that was overlayed,we also had to use techniques such as SFX Zooms, and flipping the footage to match what had been done for the original video. The rest of the editing was mostly straightforward and did not take a great deal of time. We also decided to go with a cinematic widescreen aspect ratio , to match the one used in the real video, and to keep our preliminary as authentic as possible.