It all started with nominating the production team, based upon who we individually thought would be the best and most hard working at their given job. We had to choose 2 Directors, a Camera Operator, a Camera Operators Assistant, a Floor Manager and a Main Character. I think the production team as a whole did very well. There were 45 of us to tame and keep under control, and considering they're our colleagues, I think they organised the whole thing superbly. *round of applause for the production team, without being patronising.*
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| Our fabulous production team! |
The production team had the roles of coming together and finding a theme for the project. We already knew as a group that it would be based on Metronomy's music video She Wants (my review of the original video is available to read here: http://strictlysavage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/review-she-wants-by-metronomyjul-mat.html). We'd also be using the song used in the original music video. Baring in mind that the music video She Wants is an interesting one - including some VERY random features and elements, it was perfect for our group as we're quite a funny bunch. In the end, the 2 Directors of the production pitched their idea to us and asked the rest of the group to bring in necessary props and costumes.
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| Our list of props |
The production as a whole was based around Jade, the main character, in a strange dream. Throughout the final production, we saw lots of random objects and characters flying around, such as monkey, zombies, horses, backwards people, morphs, and weird gothic creatures. It sounds absolutely bizarre but I think it all came together really well, and considering there were 50 of us, it all ran as smoothly as it could have.
In terms of problems throughout the production, there wasn't actually that many. I think the biggest problem we faced was making sure our camera root was cleared in terms of people that weren't in our production (i.e. other students, teachers). Our Floor Manager, Jay, had a really polite way about him and kindly asked people to either move for a couple of minutes or not look at the camera when they saw it as this would've looked slightly odd for the audience.
Looking back on the production, I really did enjoy it - especially the editing. I have the role of being a backwards person with Katie. This meant us both wearing clothes backwards, with sunglasses on the back of our heads and baseball caps the opposite way round. It was really good seeing us all work together as a team, as opposed to individually or small groups like we normally are. I found the editing really fun to do as I wanted to make it quirky and different to everyone else's. We were all set to edit it individually and I was determined for it to be my best edit, as I knew it would be going in my portfolio at the end of the 2 year course.
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| Behind the scenes of our production |
Throughout my final edit of the video, I'd used a number of transitions and speed editors to create an in-depth final production. There were certain difficulties with slowing certain parts down without making them jumpy, but using the 'problematise/solutionate' mind-set I overcome the problems and made them work... somehow. The points I sped up in the production were the sections that I thought were a bit long to start with, for example the beginning segment where Jade is walking out of the room, and the fighting scene between the two boys (scene at 4.06 minutes). Slowing down some scenes proved to be a little tricky as it made the final footage a little blurry, but in the end I settled with slowing down only 2 parts. The dancing doll (scene at 23 seconds) and the horse (scene at 1.08 minutes). With speeding up and slowing scenes down, the ratio meant that matching the production footage to the original song was easier than I thought. It's quite a vastly finishing ending so I decided that the music would fade out when we all threw the balloons and confetti. Looking back, I wish I had perhaps put the original sound of us all cheering at the end over the top of the track to put our own stamp at the end. This is something I've taken into consideration and something I'll definitely work on in future productions.
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
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