After separating ourselves into groups, we shared ideas of what we would do to create a montage, after this we wanted to create a plan so we presented our ideas onto a storyboard, we wrote down a variety of shots, how we were going to edit for narrative sense, convey the themes and cut to close up. We also talked about the atmosphere in which we take the clips in, for example the lighting and environment will be changed depending on the models mood.

After being given a theme we created a draft music video, to give us an idea of how to take clips, use different transitions and how to edit the video. The stars have been represented as unskilful, giving us the ideas they were failures to start with, towards the end of the video we were able to see that they were all determined and ended up being successful. Within our music video we used different camera angles and techniques such as pan, low vantage points and close ups. This video was all narrative based as it conveyed a story of people failing and then due to dedication and practice succeeding. At the start of the music video we turned down the saturation to create a dull effect, helping to convey the emotion of frustration: towards the end the saturation was higher as it helped to convey the happiness they felt after succeeding. We followed the success criteria which was to remember to remind your actors of any specific costumes they might need and you and your partner need to organise props, locations  around the school etc. From this we have learned how to edit the videos together as well as giving us a better understanding of how to use the camera to get better shots.

Strengths…

• Have included transitions e.g. dissolve.
• Some camera techniques used e.g. Pan, trolley, PED.
• Included long shot, close ups etc.

Weaknesses…

• No performance included.
• Not a lot of MES EN SCENE in the sense of costumes.
• Technical conventions e.g. editing to the beat and lip syncing.