Learning the Song

To produce a music video with any realism in the performance, we had to spend some time understanding the song. This meant finding any material from the song that was available from the internet and briefly 'rehersing' the song so that the performance in the video would syncronise with the audio track we will later add during the editing process. Aside from JJs research into the guitar parts, we also had to figure the basic drum pattern that lies beneath the song and any independant motifs from the drums (ie recognisable cymbol crashes/any other drum patterns).

Along with the learning the musical parts of the song it was down to JJ to to lip sync to our track. To help him with this we found the lyrics and he learnt them. We did encounter some problems when lip syncing for example JJ sometimes forgot some words and also when we came to doing some close-ups at Sawston Village College we didn't have any microphones so JJ had to mime.

The below pictures show up practising the music.

Edit after performance:

In heinsite after filming our footage we found that it was very hard for us as un-experienced musicians to make it look like we were actually playing the correct notes. Especially for George on the drumkit. We have figured to help us get around this problem we are going to use clips that are quite small and don't have such a big focus on the miming of the instruments.