The first practical exercise that required filming was this activity where our Media Sir gave the class a song to collectively work on and make a rough draft music on it. However since I had come in late, Sir gave me a separate song and told me to work alone. I didn't mind since I liked a good challenge and I was a born perfectionist.
The song I was given was A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.
As I had arrived to school late, I had to work with less time than my classmates. Out of a 50 minute class, I had only 20 minutes to come up with a rough cut for the first few lines of the song. My first mission after I left the class with my camera was to find a good subject for the music video.
Luckily my friend, Zainab, was sitting in the foyer alone waiting for her next class. She agreed to act in my video and lip-sync to the lyrics.
It took a few trials and errors to get the required footage I had in mind, and since she was a shy amateur actress, there many outtakes of us both ending up in laughing fits. She had a bit of problem keeping a straight face in the first shot of her reading on the picnic bench, so I encouraged her to keep her mask on and incorporate the taking of the mask as a screen as it would add more motion to the already slow song.
Sir had instructed us to to take shots of at least 3 locations. I decided to use one of the picnic bench, one of a normal sitting bench and the last of Zainab posing next to a flowering plant.
I definitely knew I wanted to add an in-camera transition as it would immediately improve the creativeness of the video, and since I had more to prove in less time, I would keep taking shots until they were to my liking.
The full video of every outtake that was taken during that filming is here.
The final video can be watched here. If you get a redirected tab after clicking the link, you have to accept the same link on the tab to open it, since the video is an unlisted one.
In the end, Sir was impressed by my use of transitions especially since we hadn't learned them in class yet. I ended up scoring full marks on this assignment!
Comments
Post a Comment