Once we decided our song, as a group, we worked effectively to create a story board of our ideas and included everything we needed to do so. I feel that this was a very good idea and it helped us to create our video, as we had a plan to stick to and we knew what we were doing. By being this prepared with our work, we all worked effectively and all had different tasks to focus on each week so that we could produce work to the best of our ability as a group. As we all have different strengths, each task was designated to the right person, so that our work could be of a high standard and we could utilise everybody's skills. We wanted to target the younger audience, so we decided to remake a comedy version of a popular song, to attract younger audiences. I feel that our group worked very effectively together and everybody contributed equally. As we had already made a mind map of our ideas and our planning, we didnt need to do the pre production planning, because we already had the evidence for this task. We tried to plan our filming days well, as there were props we needed to bring and places we needed to go to film. During this time everybody in the group contributed and had been given a task, although we were helping each other out as much as possible and made sure we all contributed to the production of the video. When we were filming, we tried to use all of the camera shots we learnt about in class, such as close up, mid shot, and long shot, to make our video as professional as possible.While we were filming, I feel that we used as many camera angles and camera movements as possible, without ruining the flow of our video. I think that by using different camera angles in the video, it makes it much more interesting and helps the video to flow together more. For example we have used the zoom function a lot, to blend in different scenes, instead of having a straight cut to another shot, this makes the video looks more more professional.
The editing process took the longest, as we had many clips we had to put together, and we had a lot of footage to go through to select the best of what we had filmed. We all contributed to how we wanted the video to be edited and what we wanted it to look like as the final product, however Jade and Wendy took most of the editing into their own hands. However, I think the editing was done very well, and the video looks extremely professional, I just wish that the other 2 members of the group were able to have a chance at editing and learning a few editing skills on Final Cut Pro.
We came across a few problems, when someone in the group had a difference of opinion on how they wanted the video editing, however we compromised and made sure everyone was happy with the final product. I think our video turned out very well and I am extremely pleased with how we all worked together and all helped each other out to create a piece of work that is to the best we can. During this process I have learnt many skills using a video camera and editing programmes. I have also improved my skills on working together as a team, and I really enjoy working with a team and sharing out responsibilities equally. I really enjoyed this task and I am very pleased with the final piece. If there was anything I would change about the video, it would be the quality of the footage, I think it was a little bit grainy at times and I also think it was really difficult to keep the camera skill throughout so there are a couple of shakes during the footage, this made the video look a little bit unprofessional. I also think that during the editing process, the editing could have been shared out a little bit more so that all of the group had chance to edit some part of the video and learn the editing skills. Another critisism I have is that we didn't include all of our origianl plan, this wasnt our fault, however, I think we were thinking too out of the box to start with and we needed to be more realistic with our original plans, however, we still managed to make our video roughly to the plans that we had, and it still matched the idea we had in our head. Although we encountered a few problems with decisions and compromising, we managed to overcome them and include every group members ideas into the final video, which is what working as a team is about. Overall, I am very happy with the task as a whole.
Devon, although brief you have provided an overview of the process you went through with the production, and summarised your learning from the unit. To reach for higher grades, I would be more specific in your analysis of the process and your final video, going into greater depth on how you could have made improvments.
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