Assignment 1 Task Five - Understand the techniques of music videos

Elton John and Kiki Dee 'Don't go breaking my heart ' - Semilore Ogunlowo

Close up shot - This shot is where the camera was zoomed in

Tracking shot - This shot we made use of the Camera Dolly (a specialised equipment designed to create smooth camera movement).

Medium shot - is a camera angle shot from a medium distance . The dividing line between "long shot" and "medium shot" is fuzzy, as is the line between "medium shot" and "close-up"

Low angle Shot - This is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye-line, looking up. the trunk shot is a specialised type of low - angle shot, it makes the object look strong and powerful including great.

The setting was the sixth form study room which had good lightning, while shooting the footage the actors stood in front of a white wall. The music played in the background as a guidance that they mimed to and help them to sing to the beat. I used a blue tac to place the lyrics of the song on the wall by the camera to look like they were looking into the camera while they read the lyrics. The only props that were used were a microphone and stand.

I shots some master footage and little bits of footage that could be added while editing the actual video. However the most effect were the close up and the tracking shot. The Close Up - where the camera was zoomed into both of the girls faces, the purpose of this shot was to see the facial expressions and how well the lip sync is edited. The Tracking shot - This was effective because the movement makes the audience feel like they are watching both people sing live.

Screen grabs of the editing process 

The first thing i did was to import the audio from its file and place it on the audio 

The first thing I did was to import the audio from its file and place it on the audio one timeline. After this I chopped the audio at the end up to the part I needed and locked it on the timeline.

I also locked the videos on the timeline, as I did not want them to move as I was editing the other videos. 

This is the picker from the toolbox used to move the toggle clip over lays if necessary.

The yellow lines represents the toggle clip over lays that i moved up and down. For the videos that I wanted to appear i moved the yellow line further up and the ones that did not need to be shown were moved down.

                                    

                     

                     

After the editing of the video and making sure that the lip movement was in time with the song I made the title section I selected, 'title' then clicked 'default still' on the top bar, it brought out a little box with a title, renamed it and after type it in the black space I dragged it to the timeline at the end of the video.