Reflection/Evaluation for 4/4/11 - Music Video Presentations Review (Day Three)

Reflection

Today we continued with some music video presentations, and once again I critically evaluated these presentations:

Katherine Pemberton: Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
* Good explanation of effects of colour and lighting use.
* Good analysis of silhouettes.
* Good explanation of camera techniques.
* Good explanation of symbolism.

Charles Wan: 21 Guns by Green Day
* Good introduction of music video themes.
* Good analyzation of lighting and colours.
* Good description of camera techniques.

Beatrice Chia: Can't Nobody by 2NE1
* Good analyzation of lighting and colours.
* Nice analysis of editing and transitions.

Saskia Leung: Firework by Katy Perry
* Good explanation of camera movements and distances.
* Good description of editing.

After a few of these presentations, we then proceeded to continue our filming further. Today, we managed to film most of Nic Tse's lip-syncing and dancing scenes. This means that we only have to complete his dancing and singing scenes later before we move on to editing.

We did not learn much in today's lesson, apart from a few experimental trial-and-error learning experiences when filming the lip-syncing scenes, where we figured out that actually singing the song makes the lip-syncing more realistic than simply mouthing the words.


Evaluation

We worked very well today to complete most of the singing and dancing parts of the music video. This is thanks to Nic's hard work in memorizing the lyrics of the song so that he could lip-snc it without delays in filming.

However, Nic had some problems with dancing, especially with other people watching. For this reason, we will most likely refilm some of the dance scenes with myself and possibly Charles dancing in synchronized movements with him. Also, I have taken it upon myself to teach Nic some moves so that he isn't so self-conscious.

This means that I will probably have to spend some time planning dance sequences and choreographing group scenes, which will be time-consuming. However, we only need to re-flim a few scenes so this will not be too hard. Researching the dance moves that are common in Mando-pop music videos will probably be very helpful in this endeavour.