Deconstruction/Reconstruction of a music video Evaluation.

In seeing our final product we have created which is a recostruction of Ed Sheerans - A Team I believe that we stuck to the original concepts of the video in order to mimick it for our own project. The video originally is a short story- therefore in prducting a 30 second clip from it you cannot tell much and it is very minimal, so for next time I would suggest that as a group we pick something more challenging, the only reason that we couldn't was because we had to use storyboards that we did as research during the summer- and this was the only one that was possible for us to achieve. If we knew during the summer however that the music video's we chose to analyse and storyboard would be the ones that we had to deconstruct and reconstruct for media, i believe that we would have been able to pick something of which we could challenge ourselves but still achieve a well produced video at the end.

As a group, considering we didn't know each other before this task was set, we al got along very well. Character roles within the group were established very quickly and easily which meant we were able to get straght on with our work in order to meet deadlines and make the most of our lesson time. One improvement of the group i would say however is that even though we had specific group roles, i believe we would have benefitted more if we all chipped in and shared ideas throughout- which didnt happen very often and was left to individuals.

Another challenge of the video was also the editing. I personally have no experience at all on the editing suites, and therefore at this point i felt very iscolated from group members who knew what they were doing. We needed to achieve an edit over our shots which created a black and white filter on the video- as i didnt know what i was doing here i feel as though i was left behind, and in order to make sure my music video is of a high standard i need to improve my knowledge of the editing suites!
 

A positive of out video i believe was that we managed to stick as close to the shots in the Ed Sheeran video as possible. This is because of the locations we managed to find, and also the weather conditions that we managed to shoot in were very close to the original video. (As shown in the pictures)
In doing this task i have now realised how long the process of filming is going to take, this helps me as it means that i need to be organised and have a clear time structure of what filming will take place and when, in order to succeed with my own music video. Timing and structure of what to do in lessons is very important as you cannot run behind on things such as this- which is why i am going to make a more clear day to day plan of what will happen and when, when it comes to me producing my own video.