Evaluation Post 2: What have you learnt from participating in each of the prelim tasks 1, 2 3, and 5?

Task 1 Audition Video:




I learnt a lot from doing the audition video as despite having done auditions before I had never done one to a camera. I found it difficult to look directly at the lens rather than the display screen showing where I was in shot.

I found it quite time consuming as I had to frame the shot, press record, press play on youtube, film the shot and then stop the camera and music afterwards. However, I enjoyed working on my own as I could really let go and go for it.

I learnt how to lip-sync and the importance of editing the shots so the words match the music.

Task 2 Learn & Practice Your Performance:

Because I do dance out of school I picked up the routines quickly which allowed me to be able to help other people in the group if they were struggling. We had lots of rehearsals with our choreographer Tasha and used her YouTube videos to practice at home:


The routines I learnt were the finale, cheer-leading, ballet, street and then individual moves for hip-hop and contemporary.

These types of dances consolidated my knowledge of the necessity to warm up thoroughly in order to not injure yourself. I also learnt to express Taylor's emotion through both my facial expressions and body language/movements.

Our Choreographer Tasha

From our performance director, Jasmine, I learnt Contemporary Taylor's individual movements, different facial expressions to use and how to perform to camera.

Task 3 Help to Plan & Organise Your Costume:

The costumes I needed for the shoot can be seen in the costume list below:

My Costume List

I brought in lots of my own clothes for my costumes such as the tutu for swan lake and the dress for the band scene. Mrs Dymioti and Olivia helped us to organise our costumes and Mrs Blackborow signed off our costumes.

My different costumes

Task Complete the Remake Edit:

I enjoyed editing Shake it Off as I was now more confident with my editing skills than I had been. I worked with Gabriel and Matt. I edited the Swan Lake and Contemporary sequences and as a group we edited the Cheer-leading, Ribbon, Band and Finale sections.

In the edit I:

• Named shots
• Dragged and dropped the trimmed shots onto the timeline
• Graded shots
• Cropped and reframed shots
• Matched the shots to make them sync
• Used slow-motion

A key difference I found in editing a music video is that continuity editing is not required which allows for more creative possibilities. I learnt about how discontinuous editing is used and how there are rapid shot transitions to keep an audience interested and make them to watch the music video again to see all the different parts of it. Below is a gif that shows this:

Conclusion: 

Overall I have both learnt and consolidated my skills in different areas from participating in prelim task 1, 2, 3 and 5.