I have never done a cover video before this, shooting the cover video of ‘Rainism’ with my group members was really a great and interesting experience for me. I learned more about Korean popular culture and have some new ideas about mv-making of k-pop music.
First of all, I found it really hard to learn the dance moves in the mv. We spent a whole morning learning and shooting the dance part. In the end, the dance cover was ok but definitely cannot compare with the original one. From this I know that being a k-pop idol is not that easy. We only see them dancing and singing perfectly on the stage but usually don’t know how much effort them put into this. A report shows that the usual wake-up time for a Kpop trainee is 6:30-7am and the usual sleep time is 3-3:30am. During the day, other than eating and resting, they are always practicing. But for us we only spent half a day leaning how to dance, I already felt exhausted. I learned from this part that you’ll have to give up on everything and focus on training to be an idol.
Another thing I learn is that an idol could not success without the whole team behind him/her. Although I’m not the one who’s responsible for editing our video, but I was there and saw how difficult editing a video was. There are tons of aspects we need to consider when editing a video. We need to think about the timing, shooting angle, filters, when to add the music and etc. For us it’s only a three-minute video, for a real Kpop mv, I can’t imagine how much effort would be put into it behind the scene.