To prepare for the lip sync exercise we planned what we were going to wear: all black.
What make up we were going to do: War paint stripes
We needed to learn the lyrics to the song Shake It Off. The lyrics we needed to learn were:
Our final look was:
What did you do in the studio?
When we were in the studio we got split into 3 groups and each went to a station to start filming. Our first station was the green screen. Here we did wide shots, close ups and random shots.
We then moved on to the station which had the cave background where we used the dolly to move the camera. This was harder to film because we had to use the dolly with the camera. We had to make marks on the floor to make sure we knew how far to move the camera.
After this we then moved on to using a sofa as a prop and we had to use a camera with a fixed lense, this meant that focusing was a little difficult because we had to use a tape measure to work out the foucsing. This scene was fun to film because it was our last station so we were just getting extra shots and were messing around getting fun shots.
In this block lesson I learnt how to use a fixed lense on a camera and how to use a dolly camera, I also learnt how to lip sync properly and I also learnt how to work as a team to be able to set up shots properly. By watching the people who were the floor managers I learned what they needed to do and what you would have to do in a role like that.
What did you do in the suite & what did you learn?
In the edit suite we were taught how to cut to the beat and sync up the lyrics with the video.
We had to stack up all our shots that we had taken and put them into a bin where we kept all our rushes. We then had to sync them up to the beat and get the lip syncing to macth the music. This was a struggle to do because the whole room was playing the same song so we had to listen closly to our music to get the beats right.
Did you make any mistakes on the day, how could we improve next time?
We made a few mistakes when filming in terms of making sure the camera was in focus because sometimes we would be in the middle of the shot and realise it was out of focus.
I think that we also needed to communicate more because we needed to know how much of us was in the frame when we were shooting because sometimes we would have a person in shot who wasn't dancing because they didn't know they were in the shot.
Our final product:
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