Mid process reflection
The reason of I chose the type of production from the list below was I liked music video, and I tried to make it. When I had a time, I always listened music on YouTube, and imitate music video. So I was so excited to hear I would do this production.
The reason of I chose the media you used for my production was this music video had a little cuts. There are only 4 cuts. In addition, it was difficult for my group to dance all of music video, because three people were not good at dancing except Nana. So we decided to try “ The lazy song”.
It has been difficult for me to dance so far, because we had to remember the reverse of dancing. So, first of all, Nana remembered it, and after that she told us. After taking movie, we was glad to archive our goal.
While we took a movie of “The lazy song”, I played a singer role. Because we decided the role by “ scissors-paper-rock”, and I lost. So I did a singer. I didn't want to be a singer, but finally I really enjoyed taking movie. So it became good memory for me.
I think it will be difficult for us to edit our movie, because we have to edit it perfectly. In addition, in this movie I got a substitute for guitar, then the original music movie looked like that there are not cut. However, in fact , there is a cut scene. So we have to edit audience will not notice this scene.
Edit movie will be difficult, but we can archive. Because we enjoyed all of taking movie, so I am really look for to edit movie with them.
The reason of I chose the media you used for my production was this music video had a little cuts. There are only 4 cuts. In addition, it was difficult for my group to dance all of music video, because three people were not good at dancing except Nana. So we decided to try “ The lazy song”.
It has been difficult for me to dance so far, because we had to remember the reverse of dancing. So, first of all, Nana remembered it, and after that she told us. After taking movie, we was glad to archive our goal.
While we took a movie of “The lazy song”, I played a singer role. Because we decided the role by “ scissors-paper-rock”, and I lost. So I did a singer. I didn't want to be a singer, but finally I really enjoyed taking movie. So it became good memory for me.
I think it will be difficult for us to edit our movie, because we have to edit it perfectly. In addition, in this movie I got a substitute for guitar, then the original music movie looked like that there are not cut. However, in fact , there is a cut scene. So we have to edit audience will not notice this scene.
Edit movie will be difficult, but we can archive. Because we enjoyed all of taking movie, so I am really look for to edit movie with them.
Final reflection
When we created this video “The lazy song”,, we used “iMovie” and“” to edit it. First of all, we used “iMovie” to cut and connect it. It was difficult for us to connect movie to match original movie, because we had to cut and connect from first scenes. If we started middle scene, we had to change many times to match original one. So we had to stared from begging.
Before we started editing, we thought we could do all of special effects by using “iMovie”. However, it was difficult for us to add a original movie of “The lazy song” next to our movie. So we asked our teacher and he told us to use “” to edit it. It was similar with “iMovie”, but it was too difficult for us to use it. Because, this application used special words, and sometimes, our movie disappeared. So we wanted to use special effects, but after we discussed about it, we gave up. Therefore, our movie hadn't special effects, there are only two movies.
We couldn't have special effects, but we did our best. If you watch this movie, you can understand we enjoyed taking movie. We made good relationship, so if we have next time to make other movie, I would like to do with them.
Before we started editing, we thought we could do all of special effects by using “iMovie”. However, it was difficult for us to add a original movie of “The lazy song” next to our movie. So we asked our teacher and he told us to use “” to edit it. It was similar with “iMovie”, but it was too difficult for us to use it. Because, this application used special words, and sometimes, our movie disappeared. So we wanted to use special effects, but after we discussed about it, we gave up. Therefore, our movie hadn't special effects, there are only two movies.
We couldn't have special effects, but we did our best. If you watch this movie, you can understand we enjoyed taking movie. We made good relationship, so if we have next time to make other movie, I would like to do with them.
Analyze the survey
1. How much did you know about the subject before we started?
Before I started out video (imitate of "The lazy song"), I knew about Bruno mars sing this song, and they wore monkey masks and sunglasses. However, I thought this original video didn't have cuts, so I was really surprised by cutting skill of it. Especially, the scene of Bruno caught the guitar looked like he caught it, but actually he threw away it. Therefore when we made a video, we tried same thing.
4. In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work?
When we took a video, we tried same camera angle. Because, original one didn't move camera angle, so we had to do it. After we finished to take it, we had gotten better by it.
6. What problems did you encounter while you were working on this piece? How did you solve them?
We encountered the problem about we had to memorize the dance in a reverse way. First of all, it was easy to memorize dance, but the working was making progress we encountered difficult scene. Sometimes, we wanted to gave up, but we knew that we hadn't give up. So keeping our minds and make efforts solved problems.
Inward-Looking
9. How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?
I did my best to do this project, it was so fantastic time for me. I like all of part of this video, particularly I like dance scene. Because, half of group member were not good at dance, but we taught and encouraged each other. So I like it.
I think my member had never been absent in our project time, so we could discuss difficult things with all members. I enjoyed all scene.
11. What did/do you find frustrating about it?
I had never find frustrating about this project, because my members were fantastic girls, and we did our best.
17. Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
First of all, we discussed to add people from other group, because we need more two people. However, we changed our idea to use soft toys and almost people and toys wore the monkey masks.
25. What grade would you give it? Why?
I would give it "great", because most of time every members appeared in video, and would know what we devised about it.
26. What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work?
I want people to notice about we used many things to make a video same original one. We did our best to take it as much as possible.
27. What do your classmates particularly notice about your piece when they look at it?
They noticed about we created monkey masks, and lip sync, reversed dance, and we wore the short pants in long pants.
32. What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?
If I had a chance to change our video, I would like to practice lip sync more and more. Because, sometimes I missed lyrics, so I would practice more than previous video.
34. What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try in your next piece?
When I watched the video of "happy" group, I was surprised by editing skill. I heard that they have more than 80 cuts. So I would like to try other music video that have a lot of cuts and I would like to try edit perfectly.
36. What's one goal you would like to set for yourself for next time?
I would like to set for my goal for next time is that do and finish all of part as fast as possible. I always finish assignment, task etc... So I would like to finish time to spare.
Before I started out video (imitate of "The lazy song"), I knew about Bruno mars sing this song, and they wore monkey masks and sunglasses. However, I thought this original video didn't have cuts, so I was really surprised by cutting skill of it. Especially, the scene of Bruno caught the guitar looked like he caught it, but actually he threw away it. Therefore when we made a video, we tried same thing.
4. In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work?
When we took a video, we tried same camera angle. Because, original one didn't move camera angle, so we had to do it. After we finished to take it, we had gotten better by it.
6. What problems did you encounter while you were working on this piece? How did you solve them?
We encountered the problem about we had to memorize the dance in a reverse way. First of all, it was easy to memorize dance, but the working was making progress we encountered difficult scene. Sometimes, we wanted to gave up, but we knew that we hadn't give up. So keeping our minds and make efforts solved problems.
Inward-Looking
9. How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?
I did my best to do this project, it was so fantastic time for me. I like all of part of this video, particularly I like dance scene. Because, half of group member were not good at dance, but we taught and encouraged each other. So I like it.
I think my member had never been absent in our project time, so we could discuss difficult things with all members. I enjoyed all scene.
11. What did/do you find frustrating about it?
I had never find frustrating about this project, because my members were fantastic girls, and we did our best.
17. Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?
First of all, we discussed to add people from other group, because we need more two people. However, we changed our idea to use soft toys and almost people and toys wore the monkey masks.
25. What grade would you give it? Why?
I would give it "great", because most of time every members appeared in video, and would know what we devised about it.
26. What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work?
I want people to notice about we used many things to make a video same original one. We did our best to take it as much as possible.
27. What do your classmates particularly notice about your piece when they look at it?
They noticed about we created monkey masks, and lip sync, reversed dance, and we wore the short pants in long pants.
32. What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?
If I had a chance to change our video, I would like to practice lip sync more and more. Because, sometimes I missed lyrics, so I would practice more than previous video.
34. What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try in your next piece?
When I watched the video of "happy" group, I was surprised by editing skill. I heard that they have more than 80 cuts. So I would like to try other music video that have a lot of cuts and I would like to try edit perfectly.
36. What's one goal you would like to set for yourself for next time?
I would like to set for my goal for next time is that do and finish all of part as fast as possible. I always finish assignment, task etc... So I would like to finish time to spare.