Task 4 - Understand the techniques of music videos
This is my lip sync video that i made for the Elton John and Kiki Dee song Don't Go Breaking My Heart. The post will be explaining the different ways that i edited the footage and the way i got the lip syncing in time with the song.When filming the lip sync music video we filmed 4 different shots, 1 of the two singers, 2 individuals shots and 1 shot for the two background singers/dancers. For my first shot of the two singers i done 3 practice shots and then 3 actual shots. For the 2 individuals shots it only took one shot for each of the individuals shots. When it came to the shot of the background singers/dancers it took at least three attempts to get the shot because of confusion in when to start singing and also confusion in the dancing. The camera was positioned in front of where the microphone was and it stayed in the same position the whole time and it was only ever touched when it was starting recording and when it was being stopped recording. When we was filming i made sure that we was all in the shot and that we wasn't over recording and that when lip syncing they weren't moving out of the shot. Also when it came round to arranging my clips i had to label them so i knew which clip was which and it would be easier to edit the footage.
When editing the footage i used markers to mark where the singer started lip syncing and on the music i put a marker where the singing actual started and then lined them up so that the lip sync would be in time with the music. As you can see below the shots are layered and then marked so the markers match each other to get the music and the footage in time with each other.
Also when editing the footage i layered the the shots and then edited it so that they faded in and out from each other instead of cutting the footage and having the possibility that i may cut too much off the shot and have to start over again. As you can see below the clips are edited so that they fade in and out from each other without any cuts. Also as you can see the lines that are all over the shots are to switch between the clips so that it is going between each lip syncs and so that there is always different shots for each part of the song.
Also there was a certain part of the song where i had to be careful when editing because it had to have a certain shot and it had to be in time with the music because it was a quick transition between shots because the singing and the beat of the song was quite fast at that point. Below was the clip of what the important shot was and why it had to be edited in at the right point and that it couldn't be too early or too fast.
The Pretender - Editing A Band Sequence
We spent our time watching The Foo Fighter - The Pretender and we was story-boarding every different shot there was during the time we was watching it. We story-boarded the first 45 seconds and in that time there was 28 different edits and there was also a large range of camera angles. There was 1 extra long shot, 7 long shots, 11 mid shots, 8 close ups and 2 mid shots. Each shot lasted for a different length of time. Some lasted more than a second but there was some shots that were under a second which were going to the beat and speed of the song.
Below is the pictures of the story boards that I made for the music video The Pretender.
The software that we used was called Adobe Premiere Pro. We got the music video to The Pretender and imported it into Adobe Premier Pro along with individual pictures of every shot that we story-boarded of the video.
This is a screen shot of all the pictures and music video to The Pretender which was imported into Adobe Premier Pro.
After the pictures were imported they had to match the beat. It was important that it matched the beat because the aim was to try and recreate the music videos with the pictures of the story board. I done this by making sure that every picture came in at the exact time that the original video changed so that every thing would match and look relatively the same. Below is picture of the picture matching the actual video.
The task of matching the storyboard pictures to the actual music video was a success because i was able to match the pictures perfectly with the actual music video so that they came in at the same time. The only difficulties that i came across was some of the images were quite hard to get in time because at one point there was a fast beat which made it harder to get everything in time.
Below is the final result of what the video looked like from the storyboard pictures compared to the original.
From this I learned how to use Adobe Premier Pro and i have learned different skills that i could use to make the videos that i am creating better because i can use all different techniques.
