Preliminary Task Evaluation

Strengths

• I feel the strengths of the task was that we had planned thoroughly so when we had to follow the Brittany video step by step it was made a lot easier because of this. We also made sure we always had the real Brittany video to hand to keep referring back to. The other strengths we have is that all the students in the class were willing to come forward and be apart of the music video. Also, the costume of the Brittany always stayed the same which helped to make the video flow and make more sense and more realistic.

Weakness’

• We had watched a previous preliminary A2 task and they had rotated the actors who played the artists so we decided to follow a similar pattern. However, i feel this then made our remake of the video less effective and lacked continuity. The other difficulties we had was when trying to get one of the Brittany's to lip-sync it was hard making it look natural and fluid. When it came to editing we didn’t have actual footage of a bell or clock so we had to replace it with just an image of the bell which obviously reduced the validity of it looking like the real Brittany video. Editing the video was difficult because the Brittany we had was singing was too fast for the song. Therefore we had to have try and slow down the lip syncing.

Even Better If...

• I feel in order to make the lip-syncing and dancing more natural, a rehearsal or maybe choosing a more naturally confident person. This would have put the fake Brittany at ease and unfazed. I also feel that if our setting was more like the video it would have improved the outcome of the video.