This is my groups re-creation of Britney Spears "Hit me baby one more time".

Click link below to watch our version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796hYmYmoTU

Research

My group and I have put a lot of thought into what we needed to accomplish the recreated music video, we thought about the choreography, dancers, costumes and props. We did this because we didn't want the video to look amateur but also so we could be organised. 

Roles

In our group we have assigned each person to a specific role so that we could be able to work efficiently and and fast. The roles :

• Katrina - Camera Woman 
• Joyce - Director 
• Joana - Britney and Choreographer 
• Sephora - Make-up artist and Hair stylist
• Fernanda - Costume 

We decided to give everyone their own roles as it would be clearer about what each person had to do and it means that the group could come together and put forward ideas about their section. 

As Joana was the choreographer she was in charge of finding the dancers and making sure she knew the dance in the music video so she could make it her own and show it to the other dancers.

Sephora also had to know what the dancers looked like so she could re-create the look in her own way for the dancers and out Britney. Fernanda also had to know the music video well so she could re-create the costumes in a similar way of the girls in the video.

Joyce's role in the Britney video was to make sure that everyone knew what they were doing and when they were doing it and she also gave pointers on how to make things look better to out Britney and dancers.

My role as the camera woman was to make sure I knew all the different camera angles in the music video and to make sure I used the camera angles when recording the our version of the usic video.

Question 2

Analysis of Britney Spears ‘Hit me Baby one more time’. Explain why this is a good music video and highlight why it is memorable. Why is it unique? 

Even though Britney Spears "Hit me baby one more time" came out 15 years ago it still comes on and we still see the video being played on TV. This shows that the video and the song itself are memorable and very catchy.

In my opinion its a good video as its very dance/pop and its targeted at the teenage audience therefore they can relate to it as they would listen to this type of music, at the time the video was released the teenage audience dominated the views for music videos therefore this would would naturally be a hit. 

The video was recorded in a school and is mostly made up of teens which are mainly young girls, they have a easy and simple routines that are easy to learn by anyone. I also think that the camera angles that were used were good, the close ups, medium close ups and long shots and birds eye view. I think that the fact that we used a birds eye view makes our video unique as in the original video they do not use the type of shots; they mainly use close-ups and long shots.

Question 1

Explain re-creaton task and your first response to it?

For this assignment we have been asked to re-create Britney Spears; "Hit me baby one more time". Instead of copying the video completely we have put our own twist on it. 
I thought it was going to be hard because we had to get the dancers and get the dancing right. When i discussed how we would organise ourselves we said we would keep in some of the choreography, the costumes are very similar as we are having school uniform and the setting will be he same. 


My initial response was horrible and I was dreading to do the video as I don't like the song because its annoying. I'm ready to talk on the challenge. 


Here is a link to the Britney music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796hYmYmoTU&feature=autoshare

The video I chose was Beyoncé - I was here.

I chose this video because she speaks about how she wants to remebered in the world for the thing she done. This makes me think that she wants to be an inspiration to everyone and that she would like to make a difference to thoese who are inspired by her, to change their life and thee outlook on life itself. The video shows all of her accomplishment.

Whenever I listen to this song it makes me me feel like I want to know that people of family remember me for what I have done

I also like the video because it shows the success she has had and how she made it through hard work. But it also shows thins and people she cherishes most and it shows he fans which shows that they are important to her.

Question 7

This is the first camera type shot that my group and I used, (low camera shot) it was not as effective towards the audience the way we planned however we understood why, when first recording we used random shot types that we thought looked okay without actually thinking properly, but now I believe we have progressed a lot as we now know what shot types to use and where to put them to have the correct effect on the audience the way we would have originally planned. 

When recording we thought clearly about the shot types, we thought together that this would be an effective ‘shot reverse shot’ because it is allowing you to see both character’s faces and get a real drift of how they are feeling, instead of one, it is allowing the audience to feel more a part of the clip. From this I was able to progress a lot as I found news ways of using this to my advantage.

In this screen shot, it from the most recent film that my group and I recorded, the name we decided to call it was/is ‘White Eyed Possession’. This is where we believed that if we didn’t just use shot reverse shot but changed it up a bit with a reflection of the characters letting them see the expression without having to change the angle the camera is in.

With this shot we thought it was the most effective, it is at the end of our horror film where you see the true demonic demon coming through the character, the extreme close up got the effect we wanted however we could have improved with the non-diegetic sound that was used. We progressed a lot than before but we can still do better.

Question 6

During the course of preparing and making my films I used a variety of different technologies. I used; YouTube, Blogger, Prezi, Final cut, Photoshop and Google. 

We used Google multiple times for research and to gather film industry news and other things based on the film industry. We also used it to find images.

I created a blog, as I needed to have a place where I could put all my research and preparation for the horror film opening. I put links and tasks that I had done during the course on there such as the animatic.

We used it to complete the hardest tasks. We used it to do our animatic and to put together and complete our preliminary task and our horror film opening.

I used Prezi to address the plan for our horror film opening by using location, setting, costume, props and lighting. I also used it to outline the problem that might occur and how we could overcome them. We then presented it to put peers and we got feedback from on how to improve.

I used Surveymonkey to create my questionnaire and I also used it to post my questionnaire so I could find out what my audience wants.