Changes

Dramatic Changes

Originally, we were filming a music video for the song “Material Girl” by Madonna. However, when we began to edit the video together, our nearly completed video was deleted of the editing programme, along with the video clips. After consulting with the technical team at school, we discovered that our video could not be retrieved. Although we were initially very disappointed by this outcome, we have been given an extended deadline to complete our video.

We have decided to take this opportunity to change major aspects of our video. After looking at the first video, we decided that the lyrics did not relate to the images on screen and instead we have decided to change our song choice to “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper. By doing this, we will be able to relate to the song lyrics more and we have already decided on a new storyline. We have also decided to change the editing programme to Final Cut Pro on Apple Mac, as supposed to the Pinnacle editing software at our school. This will let us explore different editing techniques and use more effects to get our video to the best standard possible.

 

Another change we have made is the camera. We first used a school camera to film our video, but we now have the Lumix G10. It has 12.1 megapixels, which enables our video to have a much higher quality than it did before. It also has different effects that we hope to use in our new video.

Although having to re-do our filming again is frustrating, we understand that we have been given another chance to make our video the best it could possibly be. I believe that, by making these changes, we will be able to produce a video of high quality, with more advanced and correct editing techniques involved. We will also complete more posts that need to be changed to go with the new song choice but, both songs are in the same genre, so we will not need to adapt our earlier posts. We will keep our completed posts on our blog to show our progress throughout this process.