Prelim

"Rock Star" by Nickelback was the song we chose for our prelim as the many different shots meant that everyone in our group could participate.


We tried our best to replicate the background and props as shown in the music video, for example, the basketball with the hoop behind the character. This was fairly hard to do as the music video is shot in America and famous monuments were used as the background and obviously we were not able to replicate exactly. So instead, we used our school building and car park as substitutes. Furthermore, our costumes did not match those shown in the music video but we considered the different shots and angles more important than the mise-en-scene.

Prelim choices

For our prelim, we had many different ideas of what songs we could use. We wanted something fun and different to maybe what the other groups were thinking of but we found it difficult picking the right song with a lot of camera shots and angles that were also easy to copy.

Firstly, we were thinking of doing the first 20 seconds of This Is Gospel by Panic At The Disco. The mise-en-scene would be easy to copy and we could take it in turns to lie on the bed and lip sync. But then we thought this wouldn't be fun enough so we changed our idea:



Now we have agreed on a different song and we have already filmed it with similar backgrounds as shown in the music video. We chose Rockstar by Nickleback because there are a lot of varied camera angles and the lyrics are fun to follow: