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Music Video Practice Piece (Happy)

As practice for our main task we made a short re-creation of the music video to 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams. One shot we found hard was the initial tracking shot through the classroom door. Originally we filmed it with me and the camera on a tripod sat on a office chair with wheels. However, due to the bump of when the chair crossed into the classroom we decided that the footage wasn't stable enough. Although, after filming again with a shoulder mount the footage was more stable. Half of the footage was film in school and the rest was film outside of school. The overall look of the video isn't really too consistent because multiple people and cameras were used to capture the footage so there wasn't continuity in the setup of the camera. That being said it was only a preliminary task to get us used to the equipment again and to the different pace of music videos.



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