KEY TERMS: coverage, star image, cut to close up, lip sync, extraordinary, ordinary, variety of shots, transitions, paradox of the Star, Richard Dyer. Edit to the beat.
Link to a short video on how to shoot a music video – particularly the performance section.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zrpgkqt
You will need to work in your group to begin to understand how to get ‘coverage’ of your performer. The worst thing that can happen and frequently does, is that the group return from filming to learn that they just don’t have enough shots, enough coverage of their star from various angles, distances and movement to make the edit interesting and dynamic.
You will choose a short 15 – 20″ clip of a chorus from your chosen song and elect one member of the group to be the ‘performer’.
Follow the directions for filming on the sheet attached.
You have 1 lesson to film this and 1 – 2 to edit. Help each other out if you want to use performers from other groups. Learn the lyrics overnight and if you want to try and get some generic MES, then great. The whole point though is to understand just how much footage you will need for one short sequence, trying out various camera angles and how you need to know the words for lip syncing to work.
You can use bottles as microphones, pretend guitars etc.
Here are a couple of examples from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7hlVIH2Lyo&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-2tod_nUnQ&t=2s
- Introduce – Use Key Terms (avoid – in this task!)
- What went well x 4
- What could be better in the real thing x 4
- Focus Forward – use Key Terms.