Reflection
Continuing on from the previous lesson, we watched the rest of the movies that we had made as part of our initiation minute-long movie project. After this, we split ourselves into groups of four for our next assessment. Our group members are Nic Tse, Alaistair Hirsch, Charles Wan and myself.
There wasn't new knowledge introduced to us today. Instead, we were supposed to watch existing music videos in order to discover techniques ourselves. Since our assessment is a music video, we needed to find a music genre and a proper song that will be suitable for us to film, since the techniques used in music videos are diverse and vary widely in different genres.
After some brainstorming within our group, and some input from Ms. Wong, we decided to pick Mando Pop as our genre. Nic Tse is quite an avid listener of Mando Pop, so his knowledge of some good songs was helpful. We then decided to make a music video of Jay Chou's collaboration with Kobe Bryant. This means that we will create a basketball-themed video.
There were a few film skills utilized today, such as noting the camera angles and movements required to make filming a fast-moving sport such as basketball effective and aesthetically pleasing. Looking at different music videos also gave us ideas and inspiration for our own video.
Evaluation
I have very little prior knowledge of Mando Pop, so to expand my knowledge I could listen to more of Jay Chou's songs in order to better understand his image and attitude in popular culture. By doing so, I will be better able to represent him in film.
Expanding my knowledge past Jay Chou would also help, but for this I will need to get support and recommendations from Nic Tse so I can find proper Mando Pop artists.
I think that we used class time well today, since we have already managed to decide on a genre and begin work on studying features of Mando Pop songs. This lesson was very fun and informative.
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