Evaluation of the music video.

  

What was the purpose of replicating a music video?
The purpose of replicating a music video was to learn skills of how music videos are made and also conventions of this media text.  We developed a deeper meaning of how  music videos are created and we actually found out how hard and time consuming creating and editing a music video actually is.
How successful do you feel you were at replicating this music video?
With the amount of shots that were in Robyn's video i think we replicated the video pretty successfully with the use of props, costumes and location(maybe). The only difficulty that i think we had was probably making some of the props for example with one of the props that looks a bit like gemstones put together. I think that the props were the hardest thing to make because we had to spend a lot of time on them but it's good that we did because the props really good in our video. We managed to improvise with that prop although it doesn't look exactly like the one used in the video. There are definitely some things that we could have improved on, for example the camera was shaky so we know next time we will make it better.  Also some of the things are not in sync but we that is one of the mistakes we will amend next time. Overall i think we managed to pull it off but we know that next time we will do a better job. 
   What changes would you make to your: organisation, editing, filming?
Organisation wise i think that next time our timing and communication will be much better than it was.  Also finding a place for us to film was quite hard sometimes but i worked out in the end. We used a school camera to film so there were some moments where we got annoyed because the camera had it's moments where the battery would be low, then we'd charge it and the same thing would happen again.  We would also make sure that the camera isn't shaky and just spend more time on the music video than we actually did.
How does your chosen music video adhere to the conventions of a music video? (You will be able to answer this question in more dept next year, when we have some work on analysing music videos) for now, use the information on this slide share to help you.
We used camera movements, angles,editing to make sure our music video adheres to the conventions of a music video. Camera movements are an important thing in music videos because it's all about the artist in the music videos and we wanted to show that in our video. We wanted to make it all about the artist.

Costumes and props for our new music video.

Costume:

Black Long Sleeve Top
Black Leggings
Blue Round Neck Jumper
Black Transparent Polka Dot Top
Black Gloves
Black Poncho
Black Hoody outlined with Gold
Black Tight Shorts

Props:
Colorful Buttons
Gold Earrings
White Flower Hair Accessory
Gold Necklace
Gold Bangles
Black Earrings
Tin Foil
Glow Sticks (Multi-Colored)
Blue and Yellow transparent paper

Make-Up:
Black Liquid Eye-liner
Lipstick
Black Mascara

Cast:

Cynthia Wangwe- Robyn

Jasmine Masih- Camera Director

Zahra Malik- Director  

Barween Mahmud- Production Designer

Maria Chowdhry- costume designer

Sumaya Ali- second camera director

We've had to improvise some f the things because there were some things that we couldn't replicate just like in the video. For example in the gemstones on the tops. We had to use buttons because we couldn't find the gemstones.  With the things on her head that looked like wrapping paper, we had to improvise and use something that looked like wrapping paper but wasn't. 

Storyboard for our new video

Above is a storyboard our group made as part of our planning, we made this by drawing each frame of the music video on to a whiteboard and then taking a picture of it using Photobooth on the Mac computer. After having taken the pictures, we put each picture in order in iMovie to create a mini animation. Finally, we uploaded the final piece on to YouTube and then uploaded it on blogger.

New video that we are doing

Since our last video didn't work out, we decided to replicate a much easier one called Time machine by Robyn. Although the props in this video seem a bit hard to find, we are going to try our best to find ones that are similar to these ones. With his video, there was no inspiration to it because we had to find a quick one to do and one that would be really good for us and faster to do and one that suits our group.

Some of the changes we made to the music video

 

The top she's wearing has "New York City" on it but we couldn't find one in which case we decided to use a plain vest.

How we are shooting our music video. Time machine

We are using a white screen for most of the time, most artists use white screens for their music videos. in the music video that we are replicating, they use a white screen and possibly a black wall for the whole of the video.
At the end of the video we use lava lamps. These were quite hot so it was pretty hard to film some of it because the lava lamps were really hot and we were afraid that the person who's playing Robyn would get burnt from it but it worked well.

Filming times:
Because we had to film a new music video in a week, our filming times were quite limited.
Monday- we filmed a practice run.
Tuesday: 11:20-12:20- we filmed the first part of the video.
Wednesday- we filmed all the remaining bits.