Saturday, 29 September 2012

Music Video Remake Evaluation - Los del Rio - Macarena


When I was told we were going to remake a music video I had very little original understanding of how it was do for example I had no idea of what a base track was or how it was done but I did notice them in music videos (before the we started) and I had little understanding about using cutaways during editing this is because when me and my group were editing our thriller opening we did some exploring on FinalCut Pro. But I did know what lip-syncing was and how it was done and the importance of it when it comes to make music videos this is because I have seen some makings of music videos.

When it can to organising filming in terms of props, costume and actors we decided when we were planning and doing our pitch in the lift that us as a group we were going to do all the acting because we were all girls and that two of us will wear mask of the two men in the music video but then because we couldn’t find a good photograph of the two men in the music video we got two boys from our media class to do the acting. In the original music video there was only one prop which was a microphone which we needed we decided that we will bring our own but on the day of filming we forgot to bring it so we left it out. When it came to the costumes we were going to wear we decided to come in bright clothes and funny outfits that we owned and to put on bright colour make-up which was similar to the time the original music video was made and what they were wearing. Over I think that the organising of the filming in terms of props, costume and actors was a bit successful.



The editing of the piece of the music video was very different compared the thriller opening video that I done this is because the different style of editing which was the base tracks. When filming we had to do at least two base tracks which was us filming from the start to the ending with no stops to the music where as when we were filming our thriller opening we did chucks but never filmed from the beginning to the enduing. Also during editing we layered the clips and the clip on top was the one that was seen which we didn’t do during the thriller opening. When we were editing we had to mute our clips so we can lip-sync the filming we did with the music being heard properly and we didn’t have to do that with our thriller.

Overall I think the our groups remake of the Los del Rio - Macarena music video was successful because we were able to sync our lips with the original lyrics of the music video during editing so it looks like our acting and actors are actually singing the song also we were able to have 2 complete base tracks which we edited around and we learnt the dance as well as the lyrics to the song and were able to remake 45 second of the original Los del Rio - Macarena music video. I think that if we had more time to edit and film our remake would be even better.

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