Music video attempt one.

In our last media lesson we were given the task to create a music video. Our teacher arranged the groups that we worked in and also gave us each a different song. We had the song by Maria Carey "Without You". From the start we listed to the song on the laptop and discussed what would work and what wouldnt in terms of the song's pace. As it is very slow we had to match that with the filming.

We wanted to film a scene where someone was leaving, so we used the park as the location and planned to have some editing effects of "disappearing" - by filming something there, then film the same thing in the exact same place where it is not there, and fade the clips together.

We had a lot of problems with getting the filming of the singing parts as the memeber had said they would do, day after day we still had no filming done. We were promised lots of filming, with different locations and camera angles however what we eventually got was a single continuous shot. To make things worse the lip syncing was extremely hard as I could not see what she was miming so matching it to the song was mostly done on guess work. Due to this problem it made extremely hard for me and the other member of the group to edit, we had to scrap most of the video as it was impossible to work with and also it would just look messy.

Due to not having the film until the last minute myself and the other member were rushed for time to complete this production to which we made clear and unnecessary errors, including spelling mistakes in the Title and credits and the difference in fonts.The end result turned out to be dreadful.

We managed to edit about 1 minute 40, the video is 2 minutes long including credits. Although this turned out to be a disaster, I did learn that you have to have trust in who you work with. Even when they choose to take the lead in offering to act. The second thing I learnt was that you cannot rush your work, when you rush you make silly errors.