First Draft Music Video

For my first draft of my music video I decided to film the broadcast part of my music video because this is the only part of my music video that is not on my main location, and I had not yet heard back from the owners of my location at that moment in time so I decided to film this part first because I had access to the location that I needed.


Overall, this wasn't successful because of many problems that I encountered. The first problem that I came across was that I filmed the TV against a white background, unaware that you couldn't remove the background of this footage off a white background so I had to reshoot this against a green screen. Another problem I came across was that I filmed my two actors against different coloured backgrounds so when it came to fading these two over one another you could easily see the difference in backgrounds. Plus, I was unable to find out how to make a cut down piece of footage zoom in so that it looked as if the broadcast was on the TV screen so I had to leave it stationary until I could work out how to make this possible.


Despite all this some things went well such as the mise-en-scene of my actors which matched the outfit ideas I created previously, lip-syncing of my actors was very accurate and I feel as if I have a clear vision of what I want, making me more determined to reshoot this part in order to get it perfect and how I envisioned it to be.


I now know what I need to do to improve and I have found out that filming is extremely hard to perfect and that planning and organisation is also a key feature of this in order to find a time that is suitable for everyone who is in my music video.

Animatic

Poll

Outfit Ideas - Actress

Before I began filming I had to create the outfits for my actors so here I came up with three different outfit ideas for my actress. For my actress I decided that I wanted her outfit to have a dominance of the colours red and black, in order to match the rock theme because these colours are iconographic of the rock genre. I created these outfits by finding each individual item off the Internet, either on Google or clothing websites, and then editing them together to form a realistic outfit on Adobe Photoshop. 

Health and Safety Check

Here is a short list of precautions that I need to be aware of when filming to ensure that me and my cast stay safe and out of danger:

• careful with the sledgehammer because it is very heavy and could fall on you
• be careful where I am throwing the glass bottle and make sure everyone is far away from this 
• be careful not to stand on the glass on the floor, or any splinters, nails etc.
• not to trip up on bottles on the floor or bucket
• don't trap hands in the door
• clean up glass/mess after myself 
• be careful where you step as the floor may be unstable and quite dangerous to step on
• don't go too close to any holes in the floor in case you fall

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Communication

 

These two images show my communication skills between my actor and someone else who was helping me with props for my music video. This shows that I have organised and made everyone aware of what I am doing in my music video.  

Survey Responses

From the answers off this question I learnt that most people identified this song as a pop song and then rock was second which is good because it shows that the public can identify the genre of the music video quite easily and they will understand where the theme of my music video has come from.

From the answers off this question I found out that 62.5% of the people that took my survey thought that my music video would look better in black and white. When thinking of how I wanted my music video I wanted it to be in colour but only minimal colour. So I think I am going to create my music videos with this in mind and then I could always edit my video afterwards to black and white, in order to see which looks better.

I am very pleased with the answers from this question because the public have correctly identified the correct target audience for my music video which is people aged 17-25, which shows that, generally, the public have the same views as me.

When planning my music video I identified that I would want 4 locations for my music video which matches what the public would like to see in my music video as 57.58% of people who took my survey said that between 3-4 locations is a suitable amount for my music video.

I would say that the answers to this question are quite accurate because I want each actor to have one costume each but I am not too sure on whether I want two or not but according to this anywhere between 1 and 4 costume changes is fine.

I was thinking about having my music video in low-key lighting  but the public disagree with this and mainly think that I should use high-key and low-key lighting so this may be something that I should look into and see if it would make my music video look more effective.

This question helped me a lot because it helped me find out what other peoples ideas were for my music video and gave me ideas of what I could include in mine.

Cast

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