My progress

Since the start of my music video project, I have not only developed the locations, I have also gained a better understanding of editing pace and scene choice. The location choice in the beginning seemed as though it would suit the style of the video, however after creating my first anamatic, I found that the setting wasn’t appropriate to the chosen genre of music video and gave me a limited amount of room to film in. The shoot in a more urban location developed the authenticity of my music video and allowed me to progress other ideas on location. One of these ideas was to change the time of day, the second scene was no longer filmed in daylight as the location may not have fitted well with the codes and conventions of the rock genre, so being filmed at night made a significant improvement.

From this my ideas for the plot of the music video progressed slightly. I realised that with the new settings and lightings, the video was becoming more serious and for the narrative character to realise that the whole video was a dream wouldn’t fit with the rest of the video anymore.

Getting a band together with a crowd took a lot of organization with people, however not enough preparation was put into it on the day, so I ended up with no drum kit and the location not looking as it should have done therefore making little progress. From this I learned to give more time to the preparation on the day of the shoot so that I don’t have to waste time re-shooting it to make it look more professional. In the process of editing my first band footage, I realised that the frames weren’t fast paced enough, therefore slowing the video down and making it look less like a rock video. After re-shooting and getting more footage I was then able to shorten the frames and use a larger variety of shot choices which was a great success in bringing me up to the stage where my rough cut looks more professional.