Reflection
Today, we began to shortlist our song choices for our music video unit. Our starting point was Jay Chou, since this is Nic Tse's favorite artist in Mando Pop. Jay Chou is a 31-year-old Taiwanese signer who combines Mando Pop and other genres such as rap, hip hop and regular western pop. His diversity makes imitating him less of a challenge for me, a newcomer to Mando Pop, since I am already familiar with western genres such as rap, hip hop and pop.
Later, after much deliberation and YouTube searching, we decided to make a music video of Jay Chou's collaboration with NBA star Kobe Bryant of the LA Lakers, named "天地一鬥". The music video was created for a Sprite commercial and is about basketball.
There wasn't any new knowledge introduced today, but we had a niche genre, since we will be creating a basketball-themed video. We thus began to study camera techniques that would make filming a fast-moving sport such as basketball effective and aesthetically pleasing. My prior experience of watching football games on television means that I am highly familiar with what works and what doesn't when it comes to filming a fast motion sport.
We began and completed the rough draft of our script for this music video today, with a lot of help from Alastair, which gave us a good starting point for considering how our video will actually come together.
Evaluation
To expand my knowledge to enhance my filming of this video, I will need to practice basketball and work at my technique. Also, I have to become familiar with the lyrics of the song, which are in Mandarin, since I will be acting them out. In addition, I probably need to brush up on some dance moves just in case I need to dance in the video.
Overall, I think we worked very well, especially Alastair, since we managed to finish our entire first draft of our script today in one lesson, which is a pretty good job. I look forward to starting the filming of this video.
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