UPTOWN FUNK RECREATION

Introduction


In class we were given the task of recreating the first minute of Bruno Mars' music video for his popular song 'Uptown Funk'. We were given a few lessons on this task, spending a total of 4 hours on the project, filming and editing. We completed the recreation in groups, however there were some challenges we needed to overcome. One problem was our group size, as we didn't have enough people to create some of the dancing scenes. Another problem was our limited time-frame, so had to be very organised with sticking to our plan for filming and editing. 



Overall, I am pretty happy with the results and I think that we were quite successful with matching camera movements. To help line up the timing between our shots and the actual video, I put a small version of the original in the top left corner while editing and this really helped when I was putting together the final cut (this can be seen in the video above). Although having the original to compare to helped when editing, I encountered a slight problem when finding some of the footage. On one of the days we had designated for filming, I was sick and wasn't present in the lesson. We also struggled with time management, and I ended up editing the final product in my own time after school. Having missed some of the process, I was unable to find some of the footage, resulting in a blank screen during points of our recreation. It was also hard to keep track of what parts we had completed and what was left un-filmed, which contributed to the missing footage at the end. Another aspect of filming that we found quite challenging, was lip-syncing. Not only would the actors have to have their timing right when acting out the lip-syncing scenes, but while editing you would have to make sure their mouths were moving in time with the music. It took a lot of takes to perfect the technique of lip-syncing, which contributed to our difficulty with time-management. Despite these setbacks I am happy with the product produced in the time given, however I feel that we would have been able to increase the accuracy with a stronger plan and more time.

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