As a practise task we have been given the option to create either a music video or a sweed film in a group. I am in a group with Darren Cousin and Bradley Stokes. The three of us decided to make a music video instead of a sweeded film as we all found greater interest in the creation of a music video. We were given song options to choose from and we chose to do a Mariah Carey's song. Looking back on it now this was probably not the best song choice as it was a very slow paste song and prompted us to drag many of the scenes in the video.

As a group we were being introduced to the concept of making a music video for the first time so it was quite a new experience to us. We were definitely not aware of the amount of  planning and preparation that a music video required and only began to get a small idea when we were told to create a story board to plan precisely each shot and even then i don't believe we fully grasped the complexity and preparation involved in creating a music video. Nevertheless, we planned to the standard we felt was acceptable. we created a story board with 10 different shots in which we described each camera shot, sketched each camera shot and stated the duration of each camera shot. when we were first told to make a storyboard, i didn't see a need for this. I see myself as being rather creative and so did the other guys in  my team, so we were more keen on just going out with a camera and seeing what we came up with and thought this would be a better way of us working. We were absolutely wrong. We did end up planning and creating a story board which was of great use to us. The story board gave us a a sketch of what we were to do and really helped save a lot of time. Also being able to sit down as a group and discuss ideas meant that the end conclusion was well though through and such conclusions wouldn't have been thought of if we made up shots as we went along.

This is a picture of my story board (Back & Front)

We have just finished creating and editing the last bits of our practise video. Lip syncing was a big challenge to us and took up quite a bit of our time. While editing we realised that we had used different versions of the song when recording on different days. This meant that in a certain bit of the video, our main characters lip syncing was completely off sync with the music. Eventually we had to cut part of the video which wasn't a very clean cut. However, bearing in mind the difficulty we put ourselves in, and the fact that we were beginners, i think we done an exceptional job on finding a solution. Bradley stokes, a member of my team done a fantastic job on this and shone especially for the technical skills he displayed when this problem was identified.

This is the link for our practise video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tdADU8zRo&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=5&feature=plcp