In evaluation, we made a music video of Grenade, Bruno Mars. We originally had to start by watching the music video for grenade, then story boarding the first thirty seconds of the music video. We had to select a scene where we were easily able to recreate the scene, in which we found that there were very few 30 second scenes without having elements that we could not recreate, whether this was with a piano or on the streets with gangs, which we would not have been able to recreate.
This was fairly straight forward to do as we had reference angles shot types and lyrics to the video per frame. When it came to filming for the opening sequence, we had to tackle a variety of issues, including being able to replicate certain frames of the music video, such as being able to over come the issue of not having the similar locations for filming. For example, in the music video Bruno Mars is placed in a bedroom for the majority of the video, however, we did not have access to similar environments to film in. As well as that, we had to try to recreate the raining effect, despite the fact that we were unable to film whilst it was raining. We also had to work around a construction site outside our location, therefore we had to improvise with a couple of angles, so that we didn't get any of the construction in the background. When it came to props, we didn't have availability to all of the props, such as a hat, as worn in the video. However, we were able to recreate the majority of props, or we were able to recreate as close as possible to the real video. For example, in the music video, Bruno Mars was walking along the road with traffic driving past him, however, we were unable to do this as it would have been unsafe for our actor. We were also unable to use a real piano to pull, so we had to recreate the scene as best as possible without the piano.
When looking at our filming, we realised that some of the shots don't match with the original filming. However, we were able to recreate the majority of the shots and made them match as well as we could. On reflection, it would have been more beneficial if we had played the song in the background, in order to be able to match up the lip syncing. In one element our video is slightly slower than the soundtrack. By playing the soundtrack, it would have been easier to do this. It took a while for us whilst editing to match up the lip synching and the soundtrack, but the majority of the scenes match the scenes from the original video.