Pre production/ Production process - unit 29: Music video production

A few weeks ago my group and I had to each come up with an idea for a music video for a song of our choice. My idea was for the song "Daylight" by Maroon 5 but using a cover version of the song sang by Boyce Avenue. The idea is all about how people are spending their last nights together. The idea featured 3 separate groups of people who are spending their last night together for a variety of different reasons such as leaving to go to the army, Going away to another country for work and someone dying.  We all presented our idea to our teacher and the most developed idea would be chosen. The idea that was chose was my idea, our teacher expressed how she thought mine was the clearest one in the group and the one that she could visually picture in her head the easiest. 

 

Throughout the week we have continued to create the preproduction work that is required for our music video. We have almost completed all of the work that is need and plan to finish anything that isn’t completed before our first filming session on Monday the 9^th of November. I have personally been going round each member of the team and providing help with anything that was required. For the majority of the time I have been working on casting, shots lists and the story board, I have been working on these things so that I can best create our music video in the way I imagined it. Everyone chipped in on how to make the music video better and together we have came up with some really good and imaginative ideas. I have also worked on contracts for our crew and the actors and have organised one of our filming locations.

So far we have filmed half of our music video and have one more day of filming left before we have all of our required footage, I would say that tonight was fairly successful even though one of our actors dropped out i few hours before filming was supposed to start and I had to fill in the part. Although this was not great for the production process, it was our only option and had to happen. The story of the businessman who had to leave for work overseas and the old man who was passing away is done, now all we have left to do is film the main focus of the video. The soldier who is leaving to go to war

 

 

Although we have not completed all of our filming I have used my time to organise all the footage that we currently have. I have organised all of our footage into bins, renamed it and re watched the footage to locate any bad pieces. I spent this time trying to see if there was any continuity errors or issues with the footage that would make it unusable. Once this footage found it was removed. We have also now finished all preproduction work. Although this took longer than we thought I believe that it will have been completed to a higher standard compared to if we had rushed it. 

 

 

We have now completed all of our filming for the music video. Due to the fact that I did not have to act during the second shoot I believe that I was much more successful in my role as a director. I was able to direct shots that better captured what I had imagined. Overall I think that the second shoot was much more successful than the first. We managed to gather some great footage that was very well set up. Now all that is left to do is to edit together the music video and create the final product. Then the process will be complete.

 

 

 

Film Review - Back To the Future - Class task

The classic film Back To The Future is a fantastic example of how writing can be used in many different ways. The writing influences everything from the pace of the film to the moods that are established. A wide range of different types of comedy also appear in the film due to the writing. Clever comedy is used in the form of dialogue that references the cultural differences of the times such as sayings that are used by Marty. Slap stick comedy is also used to provided easy laughs for younger audiences. The film really caters for many different audiences, even though its main target audience was teenagers it has something for everyone. The editing is used throughout the film to match what is happening on screen. During the more action packed parts of the film the editing pace is much faster than the other parts of the film.

Story synopsis Draft 1 - unit 24: writing for television and video

The character who can not be put down.
The main character is set with the task of planning a surprise birthday party for his girlfriend. Him and his group of friends then set out to organise it, arranging everything that is needed to create the best party possible. Along the way things go wrong which makes the whole task much harder to complete and his absolutely useless friends aren't exactly helping the cause either.