Reconstruction of a media text

For our reconstruction of a media text, we had a choice of the music videos for 'The Script song - The man who can't be moved', and the for the 'Nirvana song - Sliver', there was also a choice of two film trailers 'The Lucky One' and '127 Hours'. Due to the difficulty of reconstructing the two film trailers becuase of the rock climbing that would be to hard to get a reconstruction of in '127 Hours' and they were explosions within 'The Lucky One' trailer so again it would be to hard to create a reconstruction. So we had to choose between either 'Nirvana' and 'The Script' and we chose 'Nirvana' our reconstruction took place in the green room at college.

We made our own drum kit out of a stool and some boxes as we couldn't get a drum kit together, we also borrowed a bass guitar and microphone from the music department. We used Harley Young, Sam Shaw, Daniel Williamson and myself. Harley Young was the main singer within the video therefore he did the lip syncing, I was the drummer and therefore had to time when to hit the drum so that it matched the beat. Danny was playing the bass guitar and therefore he had to look like he could actually play the guitar. Sam was one of the props and we put him in a monkey onesie which and gave him two make shift cymbals which he had to bang together in order to recreate the video. After we had finished filming we all took turns in using the editing suites so we all got an idea on how they worked. We were able to get a background similar to the one in the video by editing the green screen with an image of a bedroom. This is the finished piece:


We also made another reconstruction however this one was more of a joke, however it did turn out well. This was a recreation of the cadburys advert were the gorilla plays the drums, we did this as we had spare time and had the monkey onesie and the make shift drum kit and decided that we would make another reconstruction. This time Sam Shaw was the protagonist and he had to time the beat of the drum to the video so it looked correct. This is the piece that was finally created for the gorilla recreation after editing had taken place.