R+P Post 33: Reflections on my role and contribution during Research and Planning

Overall I am very happy about what my group has manged to accomplish within this research and planning period. We have all worked well together as a team with Sian and Meera both contributing significantly to this project.

During Research and planning this is what I contributed:

Test shoot- Filming

• I took on the role of 'AJ'- the artist of the music video
• I encouraged and gave feedback to Meera and Sian whilst they danced
• I was constantly rehearsing my dancing in preparation for the main shoot
• I helped create the lighting set-ups
• I sorted out the background, i.e. the backing curtain, so it worked well with our lighting and had no visible creases on camera

Me (centre) learning a dance routine

Me performing one of my lip sync shots

Test shoot- Editing

• As I have a lot of experience in editing from past projects I took more responsibility for this edit
• I helped organise the shots onto the timeline and then sync them up to the main audio track
• I helped bring in members of our year to watch our edit- audience feedback

Me and Sian editing

Story boarding

• As I spent the majority of our planning time learning how to dance and practicing my lip sync I did not have much of an opportunity to help with the timeline, however I was able to plan out our key storyboard shots and then organise them into categories
• This again was a process I was familiar

All in all, what my group has accomplished so far has been to a very high standard and we have definitely had a lot of fun along the way. I can't wait to see how we progress through the construction stage.