Before our narrative shoot it’s vital we plan all our shots we want to achieve at each location. This is to ensure we get a variety of shots, framing, angles and camera movements so we have enough footage to cut between too to overall achieve an interesting, engaging narrative.

For our narrative, we are filming a party with an air hockey scene, pool table, dancing, beer pong and jumping in the pool to overall represent a fun party to reflect our song lyrics making it an illustrative narrative.  To ensure we reflect this fun, wild party we need to make sure we have lots of different shots like hand held shots and pov to create a narrative sense of the audience also being immersed within the party creating a visual dynamic and a connection to the star.

Furthermore, it’s also important to remember you are filming for edit therefore we have to think about any transitions we may use when it comes down for editing so camera movements like whip pans have to be planned so we can successfully create transitions. The media language of camera and editing both work together to represent a story and create meaning so when planning I kept in mind on how I want the party to be represented as well as the star. For example, to reflect the fun nature of the party we needed lots of shots so when it comes to editing we can cut between them making a quick paced edit which connotes a busy, upbeat party.

Now we have planned our shots, we should be ready and prepared to begin filming the narrative which due to having to film in the dark we are limited with time so we had to split between two nights. If we follow this guide we should hopefully have a variety of different shots and enough footage so the party narrative looks exciting. This should help us stay on track as well and prevent us forgetting any important camera movements and shots.