Busted Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary activity, we have to film our own version of the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of Busted's 'What I Go To School For' music video.
The first thing we did was form a prop list as a class including things like the uniform, guitars, filming equipment etc. We also decided on who would be the main roles in the music video. We needed the three members of the band, the teacher, two girls who walk past, a girl who turns round and smiles and a girl dancing. We chose Josh to be Charlie, Jack to be Matt and Dan to be James for the band. Becky was Miss Mackenzie as we felt she had a 'teacher' vibe to her. The two girls walking past were Leonie and Katie and Emma was the girl dancing. We chose to give our video a twist. The girl who turns round would be played by Luke. We thought this gave our video something different and made it more entertaining.
We got into pairs and each pair where then given 10 seconds of the video to storyboard for when we filmed it.

On our first day of filming we completed all of the outside shots as the weather was good enough to do it and as it's September we couldn't rely on it being a nice day if we left filming to a later date! Also, for the people who brought in the guitars it was much easier to get the use out of them in the first day so that they wouldn't have the hassle of having to keep bringing them in. These took most of the lesson to complete as we had to get exact timings right for things such as lip syncing and the synchronised jumps that the band do.
We spent our next lesson filming all of the inside shots to ensure we got all of our filming done. This took most of the lesson but we didn't have to do many re-takes which helped us get done sooner. We had time at the end to get a start on editing the final video. Me, Luke and Maz began editing the beginning and we managed to edit about 20 seconds of the final thing.

In the next lesson, me and Emma finished off the rest of the editing for our group. We had the original Busted video playing so we knew exactly what times certain shots should come in/end etc. so that we could get our video as close to the original as possible. We did a lot of cutting down clips as they didn't fit in with the original narrative and we sped up and slowed down some of the clips to make each scene flow more clearly into the next which we thought worked well. One problem we faced, was after editing the whole of our video we re-watched one clip and realised that the lip syncing was out of time with the footage. We tried to fix this by, again, slowing down/speeding up clips and trying to cut down or lengthen others. However, in doing so the rest of our footage didn't work so the best option was to leave the short clip as it was, rather than ruin the rest of our project.

For mine and Emma's own music video, if we include lip syncing, this has taught me that we need to be very observant and extremely specific in how we edit our own footage as we don't want something like that to happen in our final piece.
However, as this was our preliminary exercise, I'm very pleased with how it turned out, especially as it was the first time we had experience in lip syncing.