Risk Assessment

We decided to put together a risk assessment so that we could understand the actual dangers when performing a music video. When we put down the dangers, we could then see how we can resolve the problem and how we prevent some of them from happening. We also wanted to know if something did happen, then we would know what we would have to do if this had ever happened. Here shows each potential danger, potential outcomes, how to avoid potential outcomes and further comments in which we could further prevent the dangers.

Final Idea

This is an overview of our final idea as it has been changed slightly over the couple of weeks. Firstly, we have decided to keep with the idea of documenting the journey to our destination. We have decided to show how common troubles which our audience may have to face, for example breaking down, they will have to know what to do. During the journey, the performers will sing within the car showing all of the cast. We thought that we would also relate to our audience as they regularly take road trips as it is a new thing for them.

Relating to my 'Mood board Recreated' post, I had previously explained that we had changed our idea to camping rather than the beach tripped which we had originally planned. We chose the woods to go to as it is close to our home location. Here, we are going to film the Narrative and performance part of our music video. We thought that by being in the same location for both, that it will flow better altogether. he main focus here, will be setting up the camp-site and filming around this all things which would relate to the target audience and what they would do. The last scene to our music video will be travelling back to the car and driving away. I feel like this would create a good ending as it gives a sense of closure to the whole of the music video.

Location

Moodboard Recreated

As a group, when we looked back at our pitch feedback we noticed that the recurring comment came up when we asked how realistic our idea would be. The comments mentioned that it may be unrealistic to film at the beach as it is quite far away from our home location. They also said that it will be hard to film in a short day as we may forget a clip and will have to return. As we are driving there, it may be costly if we have to keep going back to the beach location. We therefore decided to alter our plan slightly by picking a nearby location where we don't have to travel as far to film, so it will be easy to go back if we forget any clips or decide to change our idea slightly. We have decided to chose camping as our feature for our music video. We decided to keep the car journey as we still think that this is a good idea for our narrative in the music video. They still all link together as a music video.Our music video is all about how a group of friends take a journey up to the woods and to camp just as teenagers do. I feel that this will fit in with the Indie Genre as this is a popular hobbie for students to do. This is a redundant feature for the Indie genre overall, because of the car scene and the camping scenes which are involved within the music video.

Filming Update

Today, we have officially started filming our music video. We have started off filming our Narrative part of our video as we felt that this is the hardest part, as we need to piece our storyline together so that it will flow through, then we can record our performance as it is the easy part. We had altogether around 2 and a half hours to film. We decided to film from the first point where Matt (Singer) is driving to our destination. As it was a clear and sunny day, we thought that we should film in High Vinnalls as it lowers the risks which I had previously stated in an earlier post. Today was successful overall because it gave us as a group an insight into how much we can get done and if we are on target with our progress for our music video, which we are. Here are a few photographs which I have took whilst filming the video to show the different camera shots which we have done today.

 This is a group shot which we filmed today, which is commonly used in the Indie genre to show the popularity of an individual. It also brings the shot together and allows the audience to see the whole of the scene. In this particular shot, you can see that it promotes the band by having the actual two artists in the shot too. We chose this shot in particular as it really shows the location off, which has the indie vibe also which relates to our target audience. The reason we chose the behind group shot is because we wanted to show the props which were involved including the sleeping bag and rucksacks. This lets the audience know what they are going to do already which is important to ease into the storyline with the use of different camera angles shown. 

We then did an opposite shot to allow the audience to see the front of the audience. I also think that this is an important shot to see what the performers are doing with their facial expressions. This show also promotes the artists due to the strong eye contact which the performers have with the camera. With the long shot, it helps us to establish where they are which leads into the storyline. With the use of the empty space around them, it makes them look quite vulnerable which is what most teenagers are at this age. This way, the audience can relate to the music video, which is important so that they would be more interested. Overall, it is quite a redundant feature shot for this music video as this target audience are known to be in groups when camping so they can instantly relate.

This is a sign in the woods where we felt would be a good camping spot for us to use. We wanted to capture this so that it shows where we are going, relating to our journey idea. I feel that this shot is redundant as these type of shots are commonly used when documenting where the group or individuals are going. The mid shots are also commonly used to help establish the main view point for the audience to concentrate on. We also felt that this would help the audience know how we got to each point. It also brings the audience along with performers on their journey to the camp-site, which shows more of the documented side of the music video.

Due to our time management, we have next planned to film on Monday 12th November. Here we will plan to film the most of the performance as we have around 2 and a half hours to film. We felt that this would balance out the performance and narrative part filmed so far.

Time Management Update

As it is a new month, I have created a Time management update. This shows the filming processes and how I am updating my blog regularly. This month, we are planning to start editing near the end of the month as we have had around 8 hours of filming to make sure we have more than enough to start our editing process.

           

Performers and Casting