Evaluation of practice lip synch video

I was in a group of four and we had to half an hour to film the different scenes around the college. We was told the lesson before to come up with a song we would do this practice lip synch video as well as how to film, zoom in and out, focus and other basic skills. My group and I picked Scrubs by TLC but this was decided last min as before we had picked Mariah Carey we belong together. We picked this not only because we all knew the words of the song but also it had a story in which it would be easy for us to re enact especially as we had a mixed gendered group. The rest of the lesson we was taught how to edit and started the editing process.

What I enjoyed was the filming process because I found it fun discovering how to use the camera these skills for the actual task.

What I found challenging was focusing the camera as it would often un-focus as the cast members would move far and near to the camera, so I would say this would be something I would have to practice so that for my real lip synch video it will be focused which would help the quality there for it would look more professional. However if I am still unable to master this I might have few clips of cast members changing their distance inn relation to the camera. When the camera was focused it was a shallow focus. Furthermore the camera was not still

Despite his that what I found the most challenging was editing this is because I feel like there was a lot to learn in a short period of time. In my groups music video there was a lot of black out/ fade out so I would like to learn other transition methods this would of have made the music video more professional

I feel we had strengths having non-diegetic sound as many music videos have non-diegetic sound but lip synch so it looks diegetic. In addition to this I feel like we chose areas to film where there was good lighting so it didn't wash the actors out however still bright enough to look like high key lighting which is what music videos have when singing a upbeat song like the one we chose. To add to this I feel like we used locations that were typical f a music video like stairs and a brick wall.

We could improve by using different angles and different kinds of shots instead of just establishing and close up we could do wide or OSS (over the shoulder). To further improve we could make our costumes (three girls) the same three colors to show unity to convey to the audience that we are a girl group as well as this we could sit at the bottom of the stairs as there wasn't as much light where we were sitting on the stairs. An to improve in regards of editing we could use different editing techniques like a jump cut and make the black out shorter as at the start it lasted for three seconds which looks like a long time. Lastly to fix the issue with the camera shaking we could try us a tripod or move the camera on a pan so it will appear more so still as is it not still the focus will not be on