Research

Role Division: each person in our team was assigned a role, to make it easier and quicker for us to re-create the video at a rapid pace.

 

• Luke (one of my peers) and myself were assigned at the directors and the sound technicians.

 

• Alice was assigned as the make-up artist as well as the camera woman.

 

• Chantelle A and Ashleigh were the two choreographers as well as the two main back ground dancers for Britney.

 

• Kristal was the executive producer

Casting & Choreography:

 

We decided to make Chantelle and Ashleigh be the choreographers as they are very energetic and vibrant people, we also the both best fitted that assignment as they both love dancing, having fun and being creative.

 

• Chantelle A: Back up dancer & Choreographer

 

• Ashleigh: Back up dancer & Choreographer

 

Eloane best suited Britney, she had the look that we all agreed we needed, when we started recording and seeing if she could handle she was wonderful and took stress off our shoulder by also helping pitch in ideas that she thought would be really good and help us improve.

 

• Eloane: Britney Spears

Ana and Chantelle G, both literally volunteered to take part but at the beginning when learning the choreography needed a bit of persuading but they helped take ease off us by picking up the routine almost instantly.

 

• Ana: Back ground dancer

 

• Chantelle G: Back ground dancer

Storyboarding:

 

My group and myself didn't feel the need to storyboard as all we need was watch the Britney Spears video and then write down each camera angle and then made it our own by doing what we thought would look best with the camera shots that were written. We didn't want to copy the Britney video completely so what we done was add in our camera technique and used different locations.

 

Location & Scouting:

 

When looking for location we found them really easy they almost cried out for us. We was limited but we found them easily as Britney was filmed in a school so what we done was used our school hall way and class rooms. We did struggle for one part that was only because more to then end of the actual Britney video they are sitting on basketball stairs and our school doesn't have that so what we had to do was find stairs that looked similar to make it look sort of the same. We used the outside of our school for the outside scenes.

 

In Britney's video there is convertible so what we done was make that part of the video our own by adding different scenes we though best suited the lyrics.

 

Costume, Make-up Research & Planning:

Even though Alice was the make-up artist, no one really needed any make-up because in the Britney video everyone looked so natural the only thing we had to focus on was the costume. We made sure our Britney looked exactly like the real Britney then the back-up dancer wore similar outfit to a similar style to Britney's. Everyone pitched in to help and make sure that our Britney had the right clothing.

Lip-syncing:

It was kind of challenging to link the lip syncing to match the song it self. you could be slightly fast or too slow and you wouldn't know until  you start editing by then it is to late to do it all over again. So it is a risk.

Potential issues:

The only issue we had that we was able to over come was everyone's time table, as we all do different subjects and have different things that we need to do, so what to do was write down everyone's free periods and see if we could work around it. Some people had to make sacrifices such as missing lessons and then catching up in their spare time. That was the only issue we had.