Unit 4 Pre-Production - Evaluation

Evaluation

When we were first given this task, I thought it would be a lot harder than it was because we didn’t have a base idea set out straight away because we wanted to create a short movie which we felt would’ve been easier and taken up a little less time. But, as we thought about it more we realised that it would be easier to instead create a music video because we could use the green screen for our background.

After going over a few choices of what we would do for the music video we chose to do ‘Japan’ by Famous Dex. The reason for going with this song instead of the others was because we felt that this one would be a lot better than the others and we would have a lot more fun with making this video.

After deciding on the song choice for our music video we then had to do all of the pre-production work that comes with making anything film related, so first we started to fill out our production log (which shows what parts we need to do), then one of us filled out a storyboard so we as a group would have a good idea of what the video would look like. After that, we then had our production meetings to discuss what role each member of the group would do after the basic things were taken care of, this lasted for a few weeks because we needed to detail all the things that we’ve done.

When we started this project I thought that there would be more problems that would come about because we had to decide if we wanted to do a short movie or a music video, in the end we decided to do a music video because it would be a lot easier. Other problems that came about when working on this project was that we had to do the reccee sheet and also the location scouting but that wasn’t as hard because we are going to use the green screen studio so we can have images on in the background.

One of the things that I’ve learned from doing this type of project is that it’s a lot easier to create a music video than to make a short movie because for a music video we as a group didn’t have to try and remember lines or have a specific wardrobe that we had to have. Instead, we got to relax and chill a bit and got to wear our normal college clothes so we were more relaxed. If we were going to do this type of project again there are a few things that we would do differently, the first of these being we would choose a song quicker so that we would have longer time to decide on other important details that are involved during the pre-production section.

Another thing that we would change about our project if we were to do it again would be the selection of different songs that we had ideas for because we had a few different ideas but most of them wouldn't work well with the target audience and who we are aiming to get interested in our video. The reason why we switched was because with our video for 'Japan' we will have a lot more freedom in what we plan to do with it so it will be a lot more fun, however, we have to be careful to not have too much fun with it because we could end up wasting time and that could eat up our editing time that we have scheduled.