my evaluation of my Britney recreation!

1. My evaluation of
my recreation of
Britney spears- “Hit
me baby one
more time”

2. Planning that went into creating
the music video.
 As a starting point I analysed the official video of “Hit me baby one more
time” I created a table showing all the contributing factors shot by shot. I
looked at the shot types that were used in each shot and how effective it
was when contributing to the characterisation of the video. I also looked at
transitions and how they kept in with the dramatics of the song in Britney
they were often slick and sharp as the song is upbeat and has a fun
influence. I also looked at the shot duration ,lighting and audio I also
monitored Britney's body language and facial expressions so I could
recreate my shots as accurately as possible.
 When looking at the planning aspect of recreating the video we had to
organise team meetings and peoples time was sparse and so we had to
come up with a time plan where everybody was available for example the
dancers actors camera crew and equipment, the setting we had chosen
was a school corridor and we had to co-ordinate our filming when the
corridor was not so busy else we wouldn’t of been able to create the shots
we needed.

3.  “I took a leadership role within the group as I choreographed the
dance piece I found this a good opportunity to change my dance
style and I enjoyed teaching the dancers and drama students as I
found it inspirational to work with a production.”

4. New media technologies that I
used in the creation of my music
video.
I decided to use premiere pro cs6 to edit my footage most of the time I
spent on there was playing about with the software to determine how it
operates. When looking at aspects such as lighting effects I watched step
by step YouTube videos and followed them closely I found this extremely
helpful as with this guidance if you had the idea you could put it into
practice. Razor and unlinking the sound from a clip I managed to work out
through my own initiative and spending time on the program. We worked
well as a team as when a individual found out how to apply an effect to
their clip they shared it with the group from this we learned at a quicker
rate. At one point in the editing process my media unlinked I found this
quite problematic as I couldn’t seam to relink the media by simply
exploring the software, however I over came this obstacle by watching
numerous YouTube videos on how to relink my media I found this very time
consuming however helpful and felt it improved my self learning
techniques.

5. My difficulties and successes that I
encountered.
Aspects when creating my Britney video that I found challenging :
.Students from the school would often walk into our shot resulting in us
having to re-shoot the scene meaning we lost out on valuable time.
.Another point that became a nuisance was getting all of the team
together at the same time as availability was a issue, we managed to
resolve this by creating a well thought out schedule where people could
write down their free times.
An other difficulty that got in the way was lack of preparation as time was
against us ,we didn’t give the drama students enough time to learn the
words ,so lip syncing is not at a high quality. However what I have learned
from this is that planning is essential when creating a production and you
need to allocate as much time as possible.

6.  What I found went well was the flexibility of the individuals involved although free time
to spend on the video was a issue ,but they all were committed to getting the project
finished ,with out this enthusiasm I think that it would of become a up hill struggle to get
the task completed.
 Another part that I believed to go well was the editing process, although it was the most
stressful and time consuming part of the recreation we all worked effectively as a team
and so this made the task of editing the footage we had collected much more straight
forward.
 I have learnt from this that sometimes working as a team encourages people to work
alongside each other and people tend to bounce of each other with ideas, making
process much more enjoyable. It also helped develop my communication skills as
communication was the key to our success.