Week 1

During this week we had our first lesson as we started our A2 course. In the lesson we went over with our teacher what we are going to be doing over the year, and how the lessons would be planned out. The first piece of work that we were given was to write an essay with the question being " Music videos have changed drastically over time and are now unrecognisable from their historical counterparts." I really liked completing this task because it allowed me to research into many different music videos, and see how times have changed. From the essay I concluded that music videos have changed drastically over time. There was many reasons for this some being the actual concept of the video, the technology used and many other reasons. If I had to reflect on my personal performance of completing the essay, it would be that I didn't explain myself properly. This is because I was short of the max word count by around 500 words.
We were set a task in group of 3-4 where we had to create a display board on music videos from the 1980s. in our group we were all given 3 music videos from the 80s that we had to research and analyse. Our group decided to choose a range of genre to make sure that our display board would be appealing yet exciting for people to view. Overall I think our group worked very well together because we communicated efficiently together, and for my personal performance I feel I done very well because I completed my part of the task within 3 days.

We was set our preliminary task, the task was to recreate the music video 'hit me baby one more time' by the well known artist Britney Spears. We were split into two group and were told to go away research and record our adaptation of the music video. Firstly we started combining ideas about where we think we should film the shots, the costumes and the dances that we would do. We then went onto watching the video very closely and working out specifically how long each shot lasts for, what happened in that shot, correct setting and the camera angles. By doing this it meant we could make sure our video would be very similar to the actual video. Due to actually doing all of this work before hand it meant we could start filming the next lesson we had. We actually managed to get all the filming completed within one week. During the editing stage we did actually find it was very hard to get the lip syncing perfect so it did take quite a few tries in order to get as close as we could. I feel we worked exceptionally well as a group because we shared the work load out to each other equally, so we all got a chance to have our input.