Re-Creation & Response

Starting my A2 course I was set a task to recreate the Britney Spears video 'Hit me baby', we was assigned to groups with people we have never worked with before, this is so we are all able to experience something new as well as seeing what it is like to work with people we have never regularly worked with before. My response was similar to a lot of people, so I believe. Why 'Hit me baby'? Why not a different music video with a song that is not annoying. However when our teachers explained to us why they had decided Britney it made a lot more sense and was more realistic for us to recreate. considering that the music video is filmed within a school, it gives us more access and can allow us to do it better, making it quicker at the same time.

Great Music Video

For the task that I was given, I decided it was a good idea to choose ‘Marilyn Monroe’ by Pharrell Williams. I chose this because I remember the first time that I had watched and the message I thought it displayed. The video is not complex however recording wise there are editing techniques that I do believe requires a specialist. The message I saw it uphold was that for all women everywhere it is okay to be different no matter what you look like on the outside or how you feel about yourself on the inside. All women young or old are beautiful. The fact that you don’t have to compare yourself to someone else such as Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra or Joan of arc. He sings about how women should be treated. ‘A man will want you for who you are not what you look like.’ It’s catchy and inspirational. It does have some visual difficulties if it was attempted to be recreated by someone because of the out of space effect then it wouldn’t be the exact same. However I do love the song.

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is the first camera type shot that my group and I used, (low camera shot) it was not as effective towards the audience the way we planned however we understood why, when first recording we used random shot types that we thought looked okay without actually thinking properly, but now I believe we have progressed a lot as we now know what shot types to use and where to put them to have the correct effect on the audience the way we would have originally planned.

 

When recording we thought clearly about the shot types, we thought together that this would be an effective ‘shot reverse shot’ because it is allowing you to see both character’s faces and get a real drift of how they are feeling, instead of one, it is allowing the audience to feel more a part of the clip. From this I was able to progress a lot as I found news ways of using this to my advantage.

In this screen shot, it from the most recent film that my group and I recorded, the name we decided to call it was/is ‘White Eyed Possession’. This is where we believed that if we didn’t just use shot reverse shot but changed it up a bit with a reflection of the characters letting them see the expression without having to change the angle the camera is in.

With this shot we thought it was the most effective, it is at the end of our horror film where you see the true demonic demon coming through the character, the extreme close up got the effect we wanted however we could have improved with the non-diegetic sound that was used. We progressed a lot than before but we can still do better.