Runaround Sue - Dion & The Belmonts:
The task was to create a music video to a song that was given to us by our media teacher. There were a few rules; no more than 3 people per group (although we expanded to four because of another group having to split up and join others), no uniform could be worn and should be filmed on or not very far from the school premises.
To begin with, the group was myself, Lubna and Alex. The only idea we all agreed on was to have to video in black and white and have a girl and a boy in it with a 'vintage'/50's feel as the original song we had was "Little Ol' Wine Drinker". We finally decided that Alex would be the main female character in the video as she had the type of costume required for the task (late 50's style dress, etc) but the day after on the Friday lesson, Ellis joined our group while Lubna was away. We then compared song choices with him and found that his song 'Runaround Sue' by Dion not only suited the type of music video we had in mind better than the previous, but also we preferred it more.
After some brief planning we decided that Alex would remain the 'lead a character which in this song is "Runaround Sue". She would to walk through the golf course whilst being followed by someone who was supposed to be in love with me. In the end we had to have Kirsty as being my stalker as we didn't plan at all well. We basically had an idea in our heads but assumed it would fall into place, which it didn't.
The filming process was very long, it took a while for us to settle down and try and get some decent shots. One of Alex stamping on a rose that Kirsty had given to her so the camera was at a high angle pointing down at a close up so only her lower leg can be seen as my foot crushes the flower. Another is of Kirsty watching as I walk past. We got half an hour of film for our 3 and a half minute song.
On our last lesson to edit our music video, half of our group were not in (Ellis and Alex were off) we did the best that we could considering we had around 2 hours to finish all of the editing with footage that was freshly uploaded.
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