Busted music video - production

For the start of the production, the class had decided to start the music video in the outside setting. one of our first problems were that after the jump, the three 'band members' were just standing there and not moving about, so we had to liven up the movement of the 'band members'. we started to have problems such as getting the timing of the jumps right with Jack, Dan and myself as sometime we jumped out of time with each other. this complication kept on appearing as we found out that there were that the three 'band members' needed to jump everytime the chorus of the song said 'school'.

the second time the chorus said 'school', the 'band members' had to jump and the move towards the camera. This made me cautious as i then wouldn't know if i was out of view of the camera. another time that i was cautious about this was when i move towards the camera, bend down and cross my arms, this was basically bacause the camera didn't move and i didn't want any part of my body out of view. A risk that i thought might be a problem would be the guitars, as all the 'band members' had the neck of the guitar on the left side of them i thought that the neck of the guitar could hit someone, either another 'band member' or one of tancers behind us if the 'band members' jumped and lost control of the instrument.

For the next lesson, the class had decided to film the inside part of the music video. we started by shooting one-second shots such as turning off the lights or the writing on the white board. we had to work around the blackboard shot by replacing it with a whiteboard as that is all we had in the classroom.after these shots we started shooting shots of the teacher's (Becky Baker) eyes. we had to keep on doing some of these shots as Becky kept on losing focus and laughed during the filming of her. For the shots of me singing the first verse of the song, we decided to do a long shot of me singing the whole verse without stopping, even though there will be different shots between me singing this verse. this was done so that it would save time and i wouldn't have to keep lip syncing the lyrics.

There were also some mistakes during the shots of me, for example, when Becky was supposed to give me some paper, Becky kept on holding onto the paper so she couldn't give me the sheet. another time during this shot was when i accidentally lost my grip of the paper but then grasped the sheet again. one of the shots that i felt would be difficult to shoot would be when Jack pushes through Dan and myself to sing his line. i thought that this would be difficult as we had to start in the back of the room where everyone was crowded round, also the room was quite small so we had to be careful not to get pushed into a desk or another student.