Preliminary task- Evaluation

Evaluation

Overall, I think that the preliminary task went really well and I felt like we had managed our limited amount of time efficiently. Although our final piece has minor differences to the official music video for 'Knock You Down', we still managed to create a successful and effective video. In addition, the main reason as for why we did this task was so that we could learn and understand the different shots and editing transitions , ready for when we film the final piece later on in the year. And now after completing the preliminary task, I feel that this aim has been achieved and I now feel more comfortable and confident with planning and filming my own music video. Also, after this task I now understand as to why a variety of different camera shots and editing transitions are used for the video.And this is because, each individual shot has different purpose to one another and therefore the shots help to show diversity within the extract and therefore makes it more engaging for the audience to view. 

I felt that all members of the group, including myself, equally contributed in the task, and this was done by ensuring that all members took part in the acting, filming and editing. However, due to Abi playing the role of Kanye, her character featured more in the video than Izzy and I, and this was due to it being his song, but this wasn't an issue as it meant that Izzy and myself we still able to contribute in other aspects of the task. For example, I prepared and created the props, whilst Izzy filmed some of the footage. In addition, we all appeared in the music video by lip-syncing to our set role, and in this case, mine being Keri Hilson, and therefore this ensured that the task was fair and we all had a role/job to be doing. Furthermore, after we captured the footage, we made a quick start with the editing, which overall went well. I felt that we had more knowledge about using the editing software this year due to us being introduced to the editing software for our preliminary task the previous year. Therefore this meant that we worked at a faster pace and attempted to make the footage look as professional as possible.