Research and Planning Self Assessment

Research into existing music videos

From the evidence provided in my Blog about research into existing music videos, I think it is classed Basic due to the fact that there aren't enough evidence to make it a Good Research. The reason for that is looking at my blog, there is only one research into existing music video which is Save Me - Listenbee. so therefore, the only way to improve on this situations is by doing exactly the same research for other existing music video as that show the knowledge and understanding I have when it comes to researching music videos.





Research into a potential target audience


From the evidence I have on my Blog about research into potential target audience. I think there is a Good research being evidenced in my blog about potential target audience because of the detailed of writing being produced in the research and also the way it as been represented as it makes sense.

 

Work on storyboarding


Looking at my blog I can see that there isn't a good amount of information about the storyboard on my blog which therefore means its on a basic criteria.




Time management


My time management isn't very good simply because I have posts that need to be finished in high detail, the solutions to therefore getting the posts done on time and by being more focused on what am doing. I also need to keep the posts at a good standard  for every post which means putting more time on every post I do.



Use of digital technology or ICT 


My use of digital technology or ICT is good from what I can evidence, the reason for this is I have explored different media when posting on my blog as that shows great understanding of what I am doing, For example I used PowToon which is totally different to what I have used before however finding it good to use when I  learned how to use it.



Communication skills


The communicating skill on my blog is good because I made it quite easy to read and understand. I also check out for the use of punctuation as it shows professionalism in my work making it a good post.



 Level of care taken in the presentation of work

The level of care taken in my presentation of work is quite good, the reason for this is that its well presented to show the understanding of what the work is all about, For example, the research of existing music video is well presented as it was produced stage by stage breaking it down to make it better to understand.

Green Screen Lip Sync Test

Green screen lip sync test is a practise I did to explore more about Adobe Premier pro and knowing skills that can be used to have a successful music video. in this practise, I used a footage of a female student lip syncing Adele - Rolling in the deep. the plan was to use both footage together to make compatible and therefore have the female performer in front of the existing music video to match both together.

 

      First of all, I imported both footage on premier pro, having Adele - rolling in the dead video and soundtrack together  however just having the video from the female performer and cutting out the sound as I am using the one of the actual music video. The footage with the female student is a video made with a green screen background, and my aim was to get rid of the green screen from the background and therefore having Adele's music video as my background.

To do this I used Eight Point Garbage Matte to crop around the female student but not too much that can lead to bits of the female student missing. the reason for this is to remove creases that can appear a different colour due to the green screen so it doesn't affect the music video on the background.                                                   

 

 

I then used Ultra key to remove the green screen on the background completely, this the made an outline of the female student removing anything that's green and making the female student in the centre of an actual music video. however what I learned about this is if I was to remove a green screen from another video using Ultra key, I must make sure that the bits that I want to therefore be in the actual video doesn't also have green as that will disappear also.

 

 

Here is the video I did of both footage together to make a Green screen lip sync practise using editing to get two completely different videos together so it actually makes sense.

The think that could have been improved in this test is having a less crease green screen because as you can evidence the video above, you can see a slight outline around the female performer and to make sure that doesn't happen I need be well ironed green screen  so therefore the creases doesn't show up in the actual edited video.



samsung s5 slow motion camera testing

Due to exploring ideas for my music video, I looked into using slow - motion camera to see the effect I will get from it. This test include the use of Samsung s5 which I used to show my exploration with other camera equipment's, the Samsung s5  record videos at your phone’s highest possible resolution, be it 8 MP or 13 MP. You can choose the frame rate for the video after recording and watch it.

Planning : Storyboarding and Animatic

Here is my storyboard animatic which is intended to give a brief idea of what my music video is suppose to look like.  The process in which it took for me to do this is simply writing the lyrics for my music video Listenbee - Save me on a long strip of paper. i then did sketches of each scenes that i want to be included in my music video looking at different camera angles and also location to make an effective.the process of creating this

Here are some examples of the sketches i did and what i make sure i did was making the drawings clear to understand. for example, one of the drawings had a staircase so i make sure the composition of the staircase is right otherwise it wouldn't look like a staircase.

  Here is the video of the shot list that i did with the lyrics written out on a long strip of paper. this as then been set in order to match the lyrics, for example, the pictures being places where certain parts of the lyrics are as that will be the same situation when making the music video.

What my next plan was is to make a video of my animatic using Premier Pro and then matching the scenes with the actual chosen music.