In my Media Studies class, I was assigned to do a music video project. Since it was the beginning of December, the music had to be Christmas related. I was able to choose a group our classmates to work with and ended up with a group of three students. Together we were able to go through the steps of scripting, storyboarding, filming, and editing.
Script
The first day of working on our project involved choosing a song. One of our group member was unable to be there for the brainstorming. My other partner and I had no difficulty choosing a song. We did spend about a day searching through music. We were able to decided on "I'll be home for Christmas" by Bryson Tiller very easily. After figuring out the song, we started scriptwriting. We were using a program called studio binder. We had to watch multiple tutorials in order to figure out how to do the script. Once we figured it out, the first thing we started with we was the setting of the scenes. We already had a brief idea of what we wanted from listening to the song. Next we wrote out all the lyrics we wanted in each scene. Lastly, we had to think about we what we wanted in each scene, what action and transition we wanted to see. This was a bit messy We had many different ideas and directions we could've gone with. The easiest part was the cinematography we wanted to use to created meaning.
Storyboarding
With the storyboarding we ran into an issue. We were originally instructed to use studio binder but were unable to transfer all of our scenes to the storyboard using the free subscription. We had to go online and download a template of the storyboard layout. We ended up with 9 shots in our storyboard. Doing the storyboard was no problem at all. We just put everything we already figured out we wanted in out script into the storyboard except with a bit more detail. We had to upload photos of the type of shots we wanted so we could visually see it and recreate it. Storyboarding a very simple step in the process of creating a music video.
Filming
The filming process took two days. I was an actor in the video along with another one of my partners. My acting was awful and the director we appointed in our group hated it. We had the music set up so we could hear it and lip-sync while filming. We also constantly pulled up the script and storyboard to make sure we were still following along with what we planned. To me, the process wasn't difficult. To the direct of the group, they were probably stressed out. This part to me was the most enjoyable. I liked being outside of the classroom and being filmed. We were even able to even help out other classmates with their shots.
Editing
The editing process was challenging. We had to use a new editing software called WeVideo. It was a difficult for my editor to use. The shots we took weren't lining up with the music. They were cut off too quickly. We had to go back and refilm a shot. We also had to cut out the pauses with no lyrics he took within the song. After all of the difficulty, we were finished with the editing in two days. I hated this part. I thought we weren't going to finish in time.
