Bit More Needed - Second Shoot

After I began to edit footage from the shoot, i noticed a few shots here and there either weren't of a high enough standard, or just didn't work exactly how i envisioned. This required a second shoot...

The second shoot was a much quicker process - the set was still left the same (I made sure just in case I needed re-shoots), I knew exactly what I needed, and all the actors were available.

Overall, the entire shoot only took about 1 hour from start to finish, and I'm pleased with how the shots turned out. Hopefully when I review them on the Macs at school, they'll work better than my initial shots.

Back To The Editing Room

After the shoot, I headed into our editing suite at school to start putting my music video together. On the whole, the footage I shot was very good (which is good news as filming a music video like mine is very time consuming). However there were a few shots I felt needed a re-shoot, and maybe even some extra shots at the beginning and the end before the music actually starts.

So I edited the footage that I already had together, and then began organizing the re-shoot.

First Shoot...

I just came back from the first shoot, which went extremely well. All the actors turned up with positive attitudes and were ready to go. I brought a fellow media student along with me to assist with the shoot: Emily Prescott. I put her in charge of styling, a task of which she was more than willing to help with (I knew how the actors should look, I just needed someone to help me achieve the desired look). Once the actors were good to go, I started the long filming process. Because of my idea, each actor required 4 separate shots that lasted the entire song - which made 16 shots minimum (and that's assuming I get it prefect every time and so do the actors). This took quite a long time to achieve, but in the end I managed to obtain all the shots with minimal reshooting.

Now I have my footage, I have to take it back into school and assess the quality of each shot to see if I can use it or not. If I do not think the footage is up to par, I will have to organize another shoot to get it right.

Let's Do This Thing - Organising The Shoot...

After getting in touch with the actors and agreeing on set days that they could all make, I hired out the equipment for the relevant dates and started to set up the location. Jo Grimshaw and her family kindly let me transform their loft for the shoot by clearing away the furniture and setting up the instruments in the correct positions. I then needed lights to drape from the walls and ceilings, but couldn't think of suitable lights. But I managed to borrow some fairy lights from Jo, and some christmas lights from James Coffey's dad. The set was now complete, and ready for shooting.

Getting My Head Around Things...

After completing my final animatic, I now had a very strong idea of what my final product would look like and the effect it would have.

I can now go away and start preparing for the shoot. I need to:

- Inform the actors and actresses of the date and time of each shoot to make sure they can make it.

- Prepare the set - props, lighting, outfits, etc...

- Hire out the equipment from school for the shoot.

Time to make my idea a reality.

Bringing the Story to Life - Animatic

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This is my animatic for my music video. I took digital still photographs of each shot on my storyboard and put them in sequence in Adobe Premier Pro to represent how my final music video will roughly look. I layed the non-diegetic soundtrack over the digital stills and edited the shot transitions and pace to match the music.

Now I have my animatic completed, I am ready to start filming. Once I have gathered a sufficient amount of footage, I can produce the rough cut of my music video, which will allow me to see if any further changes should be made.

Storyboarding: Putting Pictures To The Idea...

Now I have a firm idea of what exactly I know is going to happen in my music video, I must storyboard the entire video to show me roughly how it will look.

I will sketch each, individual shot as it would be filmed, and write notes concerning the duration and type of shot, so when I take it out to film with me along with my shot list, I know exactly what footage I need to capture,

By storyboarding our entire opening, and digitalizing it in the form of an animatic, I am able to see roughly what my final music video will look like, and make any alterations to my idea before I start filming which overall, will save time and therefore be extremely beneficial

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