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Music Video

What Song and Why

We choose to do Why do You Feel So Down by Declan Mckenna. We chose this song because everyone liked it, and it had pretty straight forward format to follow. The theme we wanted to portray was a retro exercise video.

Production  

We started by completing the beat sheet for our video to get the shots straight. We then planned out dates to film, these date got changed quite often because of the weather. We chose to film at union station because of the backdrop of Kansas City. We then moved onto editing after we finished filming. We had to create a bunch of different transitions for our video, we also had to mess with the saturation levels to make the video look like the original. Overall this process went very smoothly even though the weather got in our way. 


My Roll    

I did a lot of the pre production such as the beat sheet and figuring out what type of shots we would use. I also filmed the video and did some of the editing. I made sure to communicate with my teammate so we were all on the same page. Our group collaborated well together and got everything done by the deadlines.  



Conclusion 

If I could do one thing differently it would be to check the weather constantly to make sure it wasn't too cold on days we had to film. One thing I would do the same is make sure to communicate with teammates so everything goes as planned. This project taught me that collaboration is necessary and if you get along with your teammates it makes everything easier. Overall this project was a lot of fun and it taught me a lot about working in a group.     

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