What My Preliminary Task Taught Me (Task 4)

Digital Technology /Post - production

Many problems were encountered through the use of the green screen. Firstly, natural lighting the room tends to change the shade of green on the screen and this effected our video later in the editing process; making the person standing in front of the green screen look either a lot paler and brighter or much darker. 

Another problem we encountered when using the green screen was filming to full length shots; this was made more difficult as the screen we used was relatively small as well as the room that we were filming in. We struggled to fit everyone from head to toe into the shot however we overcame this by filming it in two separate takes (one with just 'Snoop Dogg'  and another with the backing dancers) we then edited them over each other later to give the impression that the two dancers were standing behind Snoop Dogg.  

 Creativity

In our video we tried to match the outfits in the original video close enough so that our version of the video at least gave off a similar vibe; we used snapbacks, hoodies and t-shirs and fake beard drawn on with eyeliner to do this.

Research and Planning

Whilst filming and editing we often referred back to the original video to ensure we were watching shots as well as we possible could, as well as this we also used a story board that showed each shot and the time that it should appear; this made the editing process a lot easier. 

Preliminary Task! (Task 3)

Preliminary task update!

In todays lesson we completed the filming for our preliminary task. 

The last shots we had to film were the wide shots these were slightly difficult as they are full body shots as we were filming in a small classroom, which made it hard to film without showing what was behind the green screen. We over came this problem by filming the shots in two separate parts which we will put together in the editing stage of our preliminary task.

Preliminary Task; Shot List

Close up of Snoop Dog/Priya Sagoo:
Shots 1, 4 7, 13

Close up of Pharrell Williams/ Emily Moss:
Shots 17, 19

Full Body (SD +dancers) :
3 5 9

Wide Shot:
2 6 8 12 16 21

Close up of shoe:
20

Close up of glass:
18 22

Mid Shot:
10(tight)  11 14 16 15(tight)

Bound 2 // Bound 3 (Replica)

We looked at James Franco and Seth Rogans comical recreation of Kanye West- Bound 2 video as the accuracy of the shots was incredibly precise and this inspired us to follow the Snoop Dogg video as closely as possible. 

Shot by Shot Storyboard- Drop It Like It's Hot

When the pimp's in the crib, ma
(Drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot)When the pigs try to get at you
(Park it like it's hot, park it like it's hot, park it like it's hot)
And if a nigga get a attitude
(Pop it like it's hot, pop it like it's hot, pop it like it's hot)
I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on

I'm a nice dude, with some nice dreams
See these ice cubes? See these Ice Creams?
Eligible bachelor, million dollar boat
That's whiter than what's spilling down your throat

Preliminary Task; Initial Planning

In today's lesson, we discussed and decided on the music video that we were planning to impersonate for our preliminary task. 

A few of the options we discussed included #Selfie by The Chainsmokers and Pompeii by Bastille. We decided against these songs as the #Selfie video included a lot of people and a huge amount of shots which would be difficult to replicate in the short amount of time we have to produce a preliminary task.

 In the case of Pompeii by bastille, we decided against it as there was not a large amount of lip syncing in the video and therefore replicating this would defeat the purpose of the preliminary task.
 

Our final decision was to use the song Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams. We made this decision as the video would be simple to recreate but also exhibits numerous different shots and filming techniques.