Thursday, 8 November 2012

What have I learned from my preliminary task

For our preliminary task we were asked to make a very short Music Video performance in which we had to lip sink and then edit so that the music would fit for the Elton John and Kiki Dee song "Don't go breaking my heart" (1976),this meant memorizing the lyrics which we were given:

Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey if I get restless
Baby you're not that kind

Don't go breaking my heart
You take the weight off me
Honey when you knock on my door
I gave you my key

Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your clown
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
I gave you my heart
I gave you my heart

So don't go breaking my heart
I wont go breaking your heart
Don't go breaking my heart

And nobody told us 
'cause nobody showed us
And now it's up to us babe
I think we can make it

So don't misunderstand me
You put the light in my life
you put the sparks to the flame
I've got you heart in my sights


What I learnt in producing our preliminary task In short is that lip-sinking is harder than it looks it took us several rehearsals to prefect the lyrics both on and off camera we then filmed us both preforming our separate parts individually we then filmed with us both appearing which also took some adapting this time not only remembering the lyrics but getting used to each others Queues. We also decided to do the duet part in one take and then edit it in with the solo parts later as we were filming just one shot we had to place markers on the ground so Luke an I knew when the camera could see us or if we had walked out of shot.I learnt that more preparation will be needed for the real music video especially in regards to location and the lyric memorizing. Hopefully after the editing process our preliminary task will look as good as the real thing.
  

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