I set myself targets to acheive within the Video area of Media Production, I feel that working with video, whilst thinking about my targets iI was able to learn a lot more about Video production, including camera work, and editing.
Digital Technology.
Skill target: In order to be able to create mine and my partners short video i will need to practise my skills in a programme called Premiere Pro, focusing deeply on cutting, main aspects of editing, uploading the video, extracting bits of the video to work on etc. We will also need to learn how to upload videos to a websit called YouTube. This is where we will store our video.
How it was acheived: I acheived this very well I think, as my partner was off sick one of the days we had to work on it, so I took that oppurtunity to edit most of the video on Premiere Pro myself. I was able to pracise with 'capturing' and cutting the most, and it is with these two aspects of the programme I feel most confident doing. So in my main task, I will be able to do these bits of the video.
Creativity.
Skill target: I believe I am a very creative person when it comes down to things like photography, and drawing, but I've never really had the chance to do any serious recording of videos. So I need to be able to keep an open mind to my partners ideas, because she may have more experience when it comes to this, and i have to accept that I cannot take and use all the knowlodge i have from photography and art. So any ideas i may have, might not work.
How it was achieved: Using my partners idea's and inspiration from the original video itself, we were able to create something which was although not very original, we had definatly thought about what we had done, and created a video which we thought fit in with the song.
Research and Planning.
Skill target: When it came to deadlines last year, i was a bit slacking. So this year i will have to step up my game alot and make sure i get things done as quickly as they should be. I think I did good on the researching, so i should hope to keep it up and improve also. This year as i will be working with video, i will need to plan for video, and research in the video areas, instead of magazines. Therefore i aim to reasearch video and plan accordingly.
How it was achieved: We researched the video 'Tota Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler, and we watched how she performs in the video, and we took little bits of her act and used them in our video.
Post-Production.
Skill target: I need to be able to get the lip-synching of the video right, and I need to be able to make it look as professionally edited as i possibly can get it.
How it was achieved: Me and my partner practised lip synching together a few times, and I watching myself in the mirror to the song a couple of times, to make sure I would stay in time with the song and I could remember the lyrics. And I made sure it was a perfect as I could when i used the editing suite Premier Pro.
Using Convensions from Real Media Texts.
Skill target: Last year, my magazine was meant to be similar to my researcg magazines, and I think i manged that. I feel that this year with my Video production, originality is what will be needed, but yet not loosing the obvious things which will get me a good video, like using different aspects of shooting, and editing, to give the examiner something to mark. For my short video though, to help with the reality of the video and to go with the chosen song, I will need to look up my orginal video, so I can take inspiration from it.
How it was achieved: We didnt make the video original, we took aspects of the main video by Bonnie Tyler to create ours, as theyre was no point trying to make it look in a completely different theme to what the song was, i.e. we couldnt exactly act out partying, when the song is about a heartbroken women.
