Production

The actual production process was entirely new to me. Choosing to be a director rather than starring in the video, I helped in organising those who were being filmed. I feel that I had to quickly adapt my organisation skills to fit this task - due to the waiting around as attention was paid to particular people, the group was initially slow to respond when needed. However, this was combated by the way we grouped the shoots - group/class shots being on one day, whilst outdoor shots and specific person shots were on other individual days.

I found that the storyboard we had made was extremely useful in helping us direct the shots, although lacked some detail, which meant we had to refer back to the original video for extra information, something I would rectify if the exercise was repeated. However, it generally gave us a good idea of durations and actions.

We managed to successfully lip-sync by playing the track back using an MP3 player and speakers, having made sure our main characters had learned the lyrics. We ran the song through with them during the shoot but before actual filming to ensure they were certain of the lyrics. This meant that we had the timings and the lip-movement exactly right so they were easily paired with the original track in the editing process.

We encountered a couple of problems during the shoot: the video depicts an old film projector being used, which then in turn showed various clips of mating animals. As we were unable to obtain such equipment, we had to improvise, using an overhead projector instead. We then had to combat the issue of the mating animal clips. Originally we attempted to find similar clips on Youtube, but they weren't to the likeness or quality we wanted. We resolved the problem by playing the actual music video, projecting it onto the board with the classroom's video projector (maintaining the idea the image is being projected). We then filmed the video as the clips of the animals were played.