Prelim task

This is our preliminary task we chose the track 'salmon dance' by the chemical brothers as it is a fun and interesting song which we can experiment lots with and be very creative with our ideas.
The narrative idea we choose was a teacher who would play the character 'fat lip' in the song and teach his animal friends 'the salmon dance'. This idea allowed us to experiment with a range of shots and effects such as speeding up, slowing down and reversing clips in time to music.
costume was the most important use of mise-en-scene we used in the video as we had both 'fatlips' costume and the animal costumes. The locations we used were a classroom and a woodland area as well as a zebra crossing. These settings made the characters stand out and look colourful and fun.
The prelim was also good as it gave us a chance to practice lip syncing.

The main editing we did was on the fish face, we used final cut to edit a moving mouth onto a fist to make it appear to be talking. we thought this was really effective. however if we were to use this technique in our real promo we would keep the actor much more steady so that the mouth does not go behind the wrong layer.
On the talking fish we also faded in some fish moving in the background to give the photo more movement and flow better within the video.
Improvements could be made however. The cuts between people throughout could have been smoother which would have helped with the flow and quality of the video. Due to limited equipment available the video was not shot in high definition which would have improved the quality for the viewers. Overall I believe it was a successful first attempt and what we have learnt and the experiences we gained we will take and utilise in the final production.
We also had ago at making a digipak cover. we kept it in the theme of the salmon dance by photo-shopping 'fat lips' head onto a snorkler. the water in the background looks effective and gave us the idea to make the text font curve and flow like waves.