Reflection
Today, we went to refilm Nic Tse's singing and dancing performance scenes. This was because of the previous failed attempts at filming Nic trying to perform. He was extremely shy in previous lessons, and his singing and dancing scenes were not very good due to this.
This lesson, Charles and I had to convince him to perform with more passion and flair instead of singing and dancing in a very machine-like and robotic way, without impassioned movements. We managed to solve this problem and get him to act more enthusiastically by placing an iPhone, with the song playing, into his hood, and then setting up the camera to record before moving away so that Nic could record alone without suffering from stage-fright.
We thus had to use static shots to film Nic Tse's parts, and thus it was virtually impossible to create interesting, rhythmically-enhancing camera movements, which detracted from our film's quality. However, this was essential to ensure that the scenes looked good instead of having poor performance scenes.
During editing, Nic and I watched more music videos in the hip-hop genre while Charles and Alastair carried out the technical parts of editing. We tried to find more post-production editing techniques which we could incorporate into our video as editing continued, but we decided that what we should keep our video simple so we didn't include too many editing effects.
Evaluation
Although we had some setbacks, we managed to successfully finish our filming today and then moved onto editing. In terms of completing our goals for the day, we managed to achieve all of them, which is good, because we were then ahead of schedule for editing.
Since we could not have so many people crowding around one computer at a time, we only let Alastair and Charles deal with the technical issues in editing, while Nic and I moved to another computer to watch more music videos. We provided feedback and proposals on editing choices and what clips should be included and where, but we decided to keep the video simple so only very few of these were actually implemented.
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