Filming Structure

Filming Structure

This is my music video structure which outlines what is going on during each shot with some notes of what I am trying to represent. This is helpful as I could show it to an audience to help them understand the narrative and to make any editing or shots easy to find and change if need be.

Audience Feedback from first draft

Production Log 16

I have now completed my first draft of the video.After looking at my first draft through again, I feel that it appears to be more like a short film than a music video, and that it is missing diversity, even though it is narrative based. To make it better, I think that it might be worth involving a small performance based part to the music video. I think I will get the main actress to mime some of the lyrics to the song and put them into parts of the video inbetween certain scenes. To do this I will use the drama studio as it is dark and use lots of lighting to create an effective look. I will also have these shots in black and white to add to the sorrow of the video and detail. To make sure that my video really attracts the right target audience, I have created a sruvey which I will publish to find out what other people think of my first draft. i will then look at this information and see what I can do to improve my music video.

Medicine First Draft

Production Log 15

I have now filmed in both locations for my music video. Filming went well and I have maintained all of the footage that I need. I have now put together a rough cut of some of the footage I got. This is where I have not used any editing and have simply placed the raw footage onto a time line and incorportated the soundtrack into it.  This is to give me a rough idea of the timing of the scenes and the general feel of the idea. My next task is to create a first draft using the basis of the rough cut and then see if there is anything I can alter to the first draft to create a final video. I will asses the first draft once it has been completed. This is what I am currently working on and wish to have completed fairly soon.

After looking at the rough cut, I think I will need to alter a lot of the colours of the footage. I want to make it look darker so that it has a more sad feel rather than bright and in your face which would resemble being quite happy. This would emphasise the song and create a better atmosphere suited to it.

During editing the video, I will also be trying to complete my digipak and magazine advert.

Rough Cut: Medicine

Raw Footage: Behind the scenes planning

This is the behind the scenes footage of the middle of the video. This is preparing for the scene where my actress goes to meet her boyfriend and he begins to worry about her with the amount of alchol she drinks and her secretive ways. To make sure that the actors knew what to do, I gave them a run through of the sort of shot I wanted to achieve.