Finished Prelim Task

This is our groups final prelim task. We understand that the camera quality is not the best, and our editing skills are not quite yet up to scratch, however we all feel that we have done a fairly good job at syncing the clips correctly with the song as it was our first time using iMovie to create a video, which means that we were newcomers to such software. I feel that by completing a task such as this, I have managed to grasp the concept of editing with iMovie and feel that it should be sufficient in order to create a professional looking music video of my own.

Busted - What I Go to School For

Today in our media lesson, we were set a preliminary task in groups of 3 and the task set was to work as a team in order to correctly lip sync to Busted's "What I go to School For" and have a go at editing the recorded clips so that it looked as if we were performing the song ourselves. 

It was a good task to get us started, thinking about what it actually feels like to be behind the camera and how you should perform in order to achieve the correct look when trying to lip sing a song.

After recording each person sing the first 2 verses of the song and the chorus, we then took our clips to the iMac's, were each member of my group had a go at editing their part of the song so that it was correctly synced to the track being played. We are carrying on with this task in another lesson but so far, so good. Our group for this task has done fairly well on getting good quality clips of lip singing and syncing it correctly to this track.

Introduction

I recently found out that this year in Media Studies, we have been assigned the task to create a music video for a particular song which is due to be completed over the course of the year, if not December. We will be creating a music video for an already produced and published song, however we are aiming to come up with a music video of our own that matches the professional, creatives styles of those already famous around the world.

The music video that will be created will be part of a promotional package for an album release, which will also include two of the three following:

-a website homepage for the band.

-a digipak for the album's release.

-a magazine advertisement for the digipak.

In order to achieve a level 4 blog I have to work as part of a team/group, in which we will all have the same amount of responsibility when it comes to getting our final product finished to a high standard. I feel that I have a fairly good knowledge when it comes to camera work and editing, which I feel is an essential part of creating a professional music video as close as possible to the real thing. 

Although it has taken me 2 weeks to finally get my blog up and running due to being extremely busy with home life, I plan on catching up as quickly as possible on my blog, while maintaining a high standard of work.