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THE FINAL MUSIC VIDEO

THE FINAL MUSIC VIDEO

Planning folder docs...

An example of one of the four recees I did in the locations I was intending to shoot. These were useful in finding how suitable the location would be as well as allowing me to think how the scene would be in my head.

 Part of the story board. This was very important and was crucial when it came to editing. I split each scene with a green line and highlighted where the performance was in order to make it easier for myself. This also gave me small targets to work towards which seemed to make the task easier.

 This initial run through of what I wanted to happen was useful as it allowed my to put my ideas down on paper and formed the basis of my storyboard.

 Planning schedule for my original actress although it wasn't used when I became the actress as it wasn't necessary.

A webite analysis. I did 5 of these individually for each artist similar to Alicia Keys. The website pictures are posted earlier.

Working on my own...

So at the beginning of the year, I made the decision to work on my own, rather than in a group. I made this choice because I generally work better on my own. In addition to this, last year I felt it hard to work in a group for numerous reasons:

1. The majority of the students live in Nottingham, whereas I live in Derbyshire, which made it hard to meet up. especially when it snows and all the transport stops.
2. If you work in a group it is sometimes hard to make sure your ideas are heard and used, and I had a very strong idea of what I wanted my video to be this year.
3. Working on my own meant less time working and more time getting on with it.
4. I knew that the grade I get is mine and mine alone. I will feel like I have achieved more.
5. I find it hard to work with new people a lot and i would take me a long time to fit in and concentrate.

Therefore I have done all the planning, shooting, directing and editing myself.
his has been hard because I obviously have 3 peoples work to do in the same time. However, if I had the choice again, I would choose to work on my own again, as I believed I have worked much better than I would have done in a group, and I am pleased and proud of the work I have produced myself.

Changes, stress, complications, holdups...

A lot has happened since my last blog., before the christmas holidays- both good and bad I suppose.  Firstly, due to other commitments, it was hard for me and Sophie to get together a lot, so I finally decided to continue the music video with me as the main character. Obviously this posed the initial problem of having to re-shoot the parts I had already done, but on the upside, I feel the emotion between me and Seth will have benefited from this change as we are a couple so there is no embarrassment, and we can easily show the love :) This left me with a short amount of time to shoot and edit, but thankfully, my organized preparation paid off as i found it much easier to shoot what I needed and shot my whole film in a matter of days over the christmas period. The hardest part was setting up the camera myself, for me to also be in the shot. However, I believed it has worked well.
Now, for the not so good things. Firstly, after editing the majority of my video, the mac I was working on unexpectedly closed imovie meaning that all my work was lost. This happened on numerous occasions which lost me a lot of time, and there was obviously nothing I could do as the technicians had tried to fix it numerous times. Following this (like I needed any more bad luck) the camera that i was using for a following shoot apparently needed 'cleaning', resulting in all my work to have grey lines across it. As this was down to the camera and tape, it could not be fixed which meant that I had to re-shoot all the work again, and more importantly, lost a lot of valuable time in the editing suite.
Relating to this, as we share macs throughout both years, it is extremely hard to get any time on them out of lesson time.
So after all this trauma I am finding it difficult to finish my work on time but am trying my very best, waiting in the mac suite for any possible chance of editing.