Reflection
Today, we were very productive. We finalized our script, listened to the song a bit more, and began to take still pictures for our storyboards.
It was a lot more complex and time-consuming to take photos this time compared to our previous minute-long movie project, since there is a lot of movement and action in our video. Also, because music videos utilize a lot of shots (a large combination of shot distances and angles) and transitions, we need a whole heap of footage and stills.
We didn't actually have a basketball, so we had to take stills of ourselves posing as if we had a basketball. This was not detrimental, but it was slightly unusual to pose in weird positions without a ball.
Evaluation
While we didn't finish taking photographs, we did take far more than we needed in order to have a surplus of available images to use in our storyboard. Since we are doing a video with a lot of action in it, we need to have many pictures so that the requirement for complex shots don't force us to use substandard photos.
My basketball skills are quite bad, so I should practice a bit more to get up to a better ability level. Also, I obviously still need to expand my understanding of music videos and how people behave in them. Apart from this, I will need to broaden my exposure to Jay Chou's music, which Nic Tse has already helped me with a little.
I really enjoyed this lesson, since it allowed us to further our progress in the filmmaking process and because we were able to expand our knowledge of camera techniques through experimentation.
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