Research and Planning

Before we could go ahead and film we had to complete a number of research and planning tasks, in order for us to be organised and for every group member to know their role in the task.

Personally I found creating the story board of each individual shot of the original video the most important and useful task, this is because without having a still picture of the original shot to hand whilst recording, lining up the shot accurately would prove difficult.

Here is the original video of 'Britney Spears,' 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' that we were re-creating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_wAfWVLdk

We only had around 2-3 days to record and there for re-creating the whole video would prove near impossible, so instead we only recorded the first 30 seconds.

Throughout the 30 seconds there are around 30 different shots, I screen-shot these shots and pasted them into a word document to create a story board.

Shots vary from close up's to tracking shots, such as the screen shots show below.

The finished story board looked like this :

The shots go in chronological order from left to right.

One aspect of the planning I think we could of improved on and done more of (given the time) is practise runs through of complicated shots. I feel that if we had planned more before and not worked out what we were doing whilst filming then this would of speeded up the recording process.