A2 Preliminary Exercise - Dont Go Breaking My Heart

Over the last week we have completed our preliminary exercise which was a 1 minute extract form the song
Dont go breaking my heart - by Elton John & Kiki D

Preparation

At the beginning of the task we had the relative easy job of blue toothing the song from the iMac computer to one of the groups blue tooth enabled device i.e a phone.

The next step was to find any location as we wernt going to be using the actual live sound from the filming which is very different from last year, as it puts less enthuses on the location or being worried about sounds disrupting the filming. 

After we found the location we set up the camera at the correct position so that there was sufficient lighting. 

The filming

We decided we wanted just three types of shots, two individual views were kiki d (charlie land) and Elton john (Rory Kennedy) are staring straight into the camera, as if they are singing to the each others faces , and then one were both people are in the frame, singing to each other. 

We began with the shot with both Elton and kiki singing together. To help them with the words of the song we played out the song via the phone which we blue toothed the song too. This made the task easier as the guys could sing along and it made the overall task flow better as they felt less embarrassed. We kept the camera rolling continuously so we could increase the chances of having a good selection of shots to use. We made Elton and kiki do the song from this angle twice in case of any issue's regarding the first attempt.

Next we shot the individual views which was were one of the singers are singing directly into the camera. This view is being used as it is a point of view shot which also gives the effect that they are singing not only to each other, but also the audience.

Editing

What We Learnt

The filming only took us around 30 minutes and when we completed it we headed to our media rooms to begin editing on the iMac's using final cut express. What we found different from last year's editing is that our main aim was to get the lip syncing accurate as this was the fundamental objective of the music video. It took us a fair amount of time to get each bit of filming all lip synced but once it was completed then it became a simple task of editing the clips , choosing what we wanted from each an then putting it together. IN our video we have a very distinctive effect where the point of view shots of Elton and kiki are both shown within the frame at the opposite corners. This gives the effect of being able to see both singers at the same time and being able to see what they saw. This captures the emotion of the two and it was a new effect which we previously was unaware of. (FIND NAME OF THE EFFECT).

This is our preliminary video