Pictures of us dancing and miming to "Dont stop believing"

Before we started working on our music video we wanted to learn how to mime and dance to songs, so we could experience how actual music artists mime in their music videos. As a class we chose to mime and dance to the song from Glee called "Don't stop believing" which is by Journey. We split ourselves into two groups as it would make it easier to create a dance routine whilst mining to the song. At first we practiced to mime in our class. Once we got the hang of how to mime we booked the drama room so we had enough space to practice our routines.


Working in groups allowed us to work as a team to assign each person with a specific role and to create a dance routine that matched the lyrics and beat of the music. The two main singers in our group were Reem (male singer) and Sonya (female singer), Me Zarah and Layla were background singers and were assigned to sing other parts of the song individually, also us three were the main dancers. At first getting recorded while miming and dancing was awkward but gradually we got use to the atmosphere.


Once we were recorded, we recorded the other group using six cameras positioned in different places to focus on evey person from different angles. For the first shoot I was taking close-ups and mid-shots of everyone in the group which meant I did not need to use a tripod as i had to move around alot. For the second shoot i was in-charge of  one of the cameras on a tripos and my main focus was Mege and Samantha as my camera was facing the angle where they were performing.


The technical equipment we used was lighting which we used to highlight the set to focus on every individual. I have learnt how much lighting can change the atmosphere of the music video. When I was using the camera ym main focus was zooming in and out at the right times. When zooming into a face I had to make sure the face was in the shot and that the camera was stable. When zoom out I had to make sure everone was in the shot from head downwards. Using the equipment was useful as it gave us a chance to practice how to use cameras that would help us when recording our actual music video.


After recording both groups we are going to go through the shots of each camera editing parts we need and dont need to create a final music video.