Risk Assessment

Mood Board For Music Video

Mood Board

Treatment & focus group/pitch

When we presented our ideas to the group, they found our ideas very interesting and the concept of our message appealing too. We didn't receive much feedback, though the main feedback we got was based on the location at which we are going to film our video. The group thought it would be difficult to find a house or some place which is old and torn down and would be difficult to use our red pain idea. What was suggested to us is that we film the music video in a garage and put up boards and cover the surface well when doing the scenes with the paint. I found this rather helpful as I believe filming the music video in a garage would be much easier for us as finding an old house and asking for permission to use it would be a long process considering the amount of time we have to get filming done. Also, the idea about covering the surface well and using props like boards is beneficial too as this would help restrain us from causing damage to any property.

Before we did our presentation, a lot of the groups were saying their music video will be performance based like ours but didn't have any performers so when our group mentioned it during our presentation, the group began to question us too but it was made clear that we do have a performer who we have in mind that is willing to take part in our music video.

Presenting to the group made us feel very confident with our ideas as the reaction we got toward our ideas was good, it showed what we are trying to create with the music video is understandable. Watching other peoples ideas and presenting ours also helped us think of different ways in which we can create our music video. All in all, the presentation of our ideas was very successful.

Improvements to case studies

The suggestions that were made by my teacher were taken into consideration by me and I went ahead and made these improvements to my cause study. I have spoken more about conventions (which was the main suggestion).

Pitch planning

In today's lesson, we began putting together ideas to present to the class. We decided to create a prezi as we want to present our ideas regarding our coursework formally to our peers and teachers. 

Group work & planning

In our lesson today we chose who we wanted to work with for our course work and decided on the track we are going to base our music video upon. We spent the lesson pitching ideas for songs to each other and discussing how we would like our music video to be. We decided that the track we will be using is Sia- Eye Of The Needle. 

Let it go evaluation

Practice Video Shoot Evaluation: Let It Go

Let It Go Practice Video

Planning: 

Planning the music video was very easy as this was a song that we knew well and had many ideas for. What we put our main focus on is how we would film the video and what kind of video angles we would use when filming the music video. We decided to use the lyrics of the song to plan out what camera angle we want for each line, for example ‘let it go, let it go’  we used a close up shot to show the expression on the models face, ‘can’t hold me back anymore’  we used a long shot to show the model walking away from the camera and show location. We wanted to symbolise a message in our music video and we wanted to use the location to do this through which is why when planning we decided that we would film outside to show a message of ‘freedom’ which the song represents. When filming for our course work, we will follow this exact form of planning as it worked best for us and made the actual filming on the video very easy for us. 

Group Work: 

As a group we managed to work well to complete the task. We all had different jobs to do, mine was mainly filming which I have most experience in. The only one problem we had was sharing the space with other groups as often we became distracted and didn't focus on our task. In addition to this, myself and another person I was working in felt as though not everyone was putting in enough work and commitment. When picking who to work with for the course work task, I’d like to pick carefully who I would like to work with as the grade will ultimately go towards my final grade. 

Technical Skills:

As I do youtube videos in my spare time, filming wasn't an issue as I knew how to use the DSLR camera properly however we faced a few challenges when editing. As we didn't have any experience in creating a music video the hardest part was matching the lip-synching to the original song. When editing we found that the model was lip synching ahead of the song. When filming for my coursework, I will ensure that the model we use will know the song well and will lip-synch along with the song as this will give us the best results. Also, we want to experiment with our video which is why when we film the video we are going to try incorporate all elements of filming with location, costume etc. to get the best results possible. 

Creative Skills: 

Some of the ideas which we had for the video shoot were some what difficult to bring into action so often we had to think of new ideas on the spot. The first day of filming we thought was successful however when we watched the clips back we weren't happy with most of the content which is why we had to start over again and in the same lesson start editing too. Directing was a mix of being easy and difficult, it was easy showing the model what to do however as mentioned before, the group was often distracted and not doing their role well which made it very difficult as we had to keep doing many jobs at the same time. When recording my music video, I will ensure that I will plan out the video so its doable and we won’t have to keep changing our ideas as this will take up a lot of time and also will cause us delay. Also, as mentioned before I will also be smart with who I work with as this will ultimately determine how well I perform in my course work. 

Targets: 

Main target for me is to pick people who I know will work well with me and work hard to get the best results at the end of the project. Another target is for me to plan the video with my group in advance just like we did so it is easier to film when we have to do so. Also, I need to practise using the camera, though I have the basic skills, I want to advance my skills so the ending result of my coursework is to its best standard. We as a group need to chose a model who will perform well when lip synching because this was one thing that really brought the video down. Lastly, practise editing as Final Cut is still a very new programme to me and if I practise and get used to the programme, I believe it would be highly beneficial for me when editing my video. 

Practise video shoot and editing

Last lesson we had to re film our music video and begin editing and today's lesson we finished editing and exporting it to YouTube 

Practise video shoot

Today my group and I filmed our practise video shoot to get ourselves familiar with the camera we will be using. We finished filming and will begin editing next lesson.  

Planing a practise music video

We were told that in our lesson today we had to pick a song which we will use to practise filming a short clip for and edit. We chose the song let it go and on a story board planned out which shots we'd like to use and how we'd like our music video to me. On the last 20 mintues of the lesson we did a rehearsal of what we had planned. Next lesson we are going to try and film the clip and hopefully begin the editing process 

Research/ Case Study Notes

Creative Idea

In our first media lesson, we had a few minutes to select who we want to work with and discuss some ideas. In my group, we all agreed on being creative and creating a new style of video. We discussed a few ideas and genres of music we would consider using rather than the usual hip hop and R&B. We discussed the type of costume and location we would like to use when filming our music video and how we can use both to portray a message to our audience.

Production Schedule