Music Video Practice: Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars

In this assignment, we were to recreate Mark Ronson's song 'Uptown Funk' for up to a minute. This meant all the camera angles, editing cuts and anything else had to be as similar as possible.

Day 1:

We spent this day on reviewing, planning and screenshotting from the original all the different camera shots and angles. This was so that we could remind ourselves what we needed.

Day 2:

We spent another day preparing, getting hold of the probs we needed and working out where exactly we were going to be working.

Day 3:

Filming

Day 4: Filming

Day 5:

During the day we gathered all the footage we collected. We started editing after school

Timelapse of the editing:

The most important thing we probably did was the first stage of editing - creating markers at every cut of the original. We ripped a low quality version of the original, and downloaded the audio separately. We wanted to achieve cuts that were identical in time as the original.
What the marker allows us to do is to just simply cut out footage up that was similar to the original, and drag them in without musch thought other that the timing on the lips. The markers would allow us to 'snap' the footage to its location with ease.

Day 6:

We were halfway done with the editing, however we realised that we were actually missing some footage. After digging through the possible place where we could have forgotten to drag the footage over, we concluded that we simply forgot to record certain shots on the day.  We had to make do with what we had, the shots that were not similar to the original were bloopers before the actually recording, and some shots we had to increase the scale to create the closeup shot effect.
This was the main issue we found with the whole process.
We also found that when rendering, the resolution was messed up, so we will have to go back and render the project out again.

Final outcome: