Reconstruction of Lana Del Ray - Summertime Sadness

On our first day of the reconstruction process we planned what days we were going to film and at what times (see Production Plan), and then we assigned roles to each of the group (see Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Media text).

On our first filming day we shot the second scene (30+) of the chosen music video. We spent a good our looking for the 'right' bush/tree to replicate similarly to the one in the original video and then filmed countless shots, changing camera angles and the cast members position.

On our second day of filming we shot the first scene and the third scene. Looking around our college site for parks or woodland areas with many trees was key and we came came across many good angled shots and shot many scenes and trying to get a clear match up to the original video. In the end we focused on a large area and managed to get some very good scenes. For the third scene finding an area to be able to match up to Lana falling in her video and was extremely hard as I (cast member) did not want to injure myself. So we created the first part of the scene between the trees, I thought very well.

On our third day of filming we shot the last scene. Finding 'pretty' gates around our chosen filming area was almost impossible so we did the best that we could and filmed near the college area.

After doing countless amounts of takes for each scene we all sat down around an editing suite and pulled across our film clips onto the editing program. We edited over a couple of days. Then as a group we went through each clip deleting the ones which weren't good enough to be linked together for our final product. Then after added our chosen song matched the timings together and lip sync so our mini reconstruction would flow. Once that was done we then changed the contrast or colour, changed the brightness and tone and finally added a smoke effect to end our reconstruction like done in the original music video.
We then showed our short reconstruction to our class and received some helpful feedback that we could take on board when filming our own music video.