Preliminary Task

Last week in class we made a start on our Preliminary Task which involved us getting into a small group and choosing two people who would in which sing to 'Don't go breaking my heart'. The first we had to do was blue tooth the track from the iMac onto some sort of device which would allow us to play the song our loud in order for the singers to sing to it. We then carefully chose two people who would sing the male and female part in the song, these were Liam and Megan; they then began practising the words to the song.
Me and another person in the group, Charlie then set up the camera in order to be ready for when they had learnt the song. Once this had been done, we then got ready the music device and the camera so we could play the song and press start on the camera at the same time. We then did this and shot up to about 1 minute of Megan and Liam singing out loud.
What did I learn?

• directing 
• whole takes 
• layering 
• singing out loud

As I was not one of the people singing I was able to get more confident and learn more about directing a scene. As we were not using the background noise or the voices of the two people singing this enabled me to talk out loud to the participants and instruct them on what I thought was best and looked good through the camera; this meant telling them to stand more closely together, holding hands more and telling one of the participants to move around more like the other one. Next is the point about the whole takes, as we were going to have to edit and layer the takes it would be much more easier if we were to shoot long takes of them singing; this made it more easy for us to edit and to move around and fit them together so it looked good and flowed properly. Even though I was not one of the people editing the takes, I did follow what they were doing and took an interest, this allowed me to get some more knowledge of editing and how to layer the takes. Below is a screen shot image I took when Charlie from our group was editing our footage, is shows the layers in which I have been talking about and shows the green two blocks at the bottom which represent the music 'Don't go breaking my heart'.

Doing all this has enabled me and my group to have more experience and better knowledge of shooting and editing this will be good for when we actually shoot and edit our music video.