Post 20 Pt. 1: One-take Music Video

ONE-TAKE MUSIC VIDEO

To add to practice and research, another task set by my teacher was to plan, organise, film, and edit a one-take music video in under two hours. We got into groups that ended up as Megan, Daisy, Tazmin and I in one team. Firstly, none has ever even tried to make a video like this, let alone created a one-take video, so we knew that this was going to hard, complicated and at the same time, fun. We were given the song, 'Grace Kelly - by Mika' which we thought was a brilliant and clear song to front our video. Quickly, we started to research previous professional and student-made on-take videos to see how it was done. Particular ones that stuck in my mind were the Ok Go videos, compromising of a range of weird running machine dances and science and paint experiments/domino effect videos. Once we had seen how much organisation went into these, we knew that we had to plan throughly but quickly because it may take a few tries to get it right, but each try was going to be lengthy. 

Our original vision was to include the whole of the sixth form in some sort of dance/mannequin challenge film but we knew that the more people participating, the more complicated it was, so we moved on. Next we wanted to use the stairs in the sixth form area to create a visual moving mix of people in and around but we though that the idea wouldn't really make sense and we also wanted the camera to move so it added an extra side to it. Finally, we came upon our end idea. We wanted our camera to be moving backwards, following a person lip-syncing to the song as people joined behind him, dancing and signing. We cast very quickly after that, knowing he would be excellent and up for it. Then we started.

It took three takes to get the final cut that we got, and many rehearsals but we were cut short of time, and only had five minutes to export it. Also, our lovely volunteer dancers were very tired and wanted to stop. This was different from any task we have done before as you did not have the safety net of editing and just cutting out any footage that wasn't how you wanted to be, as the video had to be all in one take. Due to this you had to plan a lot in advance as it all had to go perfectly as otherwise you just had to start again. It was interesting to do as we didn't realise how much planning would have to go into something like this, even though it is such a simple concept. It was also a lot of fun to make and showed us that our final music video doesn't have to be serious to look good, you can make simple and entertaining ideas that create just as an effective video. The video makes us laugh a lot due to the lip-syncing by Rory, the front man and the dancing efforts of the behind him. We are very happy with our outcome, due to the considerations and environment we were in to complete the video. Here is our final one-take music video.

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