Preliminary Video Task

As a class, we were tasked with re-creating the music video for Busted's That's What I Go To School For. My part in the creation was acting, editing and partial filming.



As an actor, I had to perform as Charlie, one of the singers. This was good practice for learning how to lip sync, and as I am likely to take place in our final task video, this will have been useful for me.

For the editing, we took turns as a class to edit parts of the video together. I only edited a small amount of the chorus part, but it was enough to get an understanding on what editing is like and how to get things to fit together. It also allowed me to look at the different effects and transitions that are available for video editing software. However, I have decided that I will use a different editing program to Adobe Premier Pro.

Finally, for the small amount of camera work I did, I learnt how to set up shots and to get angles and lighting to work pretty well. I already knew quite a bit about using the cameras from my project last year, but the Preliminary Task helped me to see just how many shots would be needed for a music video.