Below is a roughly edited portion of my music video, with simple transitions and all lip-synced together and edited to the beat.

The main singer is Caleb Vinning and the guitarist is Nattaliya Besser and they are performing the song Humility By Gorillaz

What went well:

• The start of the music video with the split screen is a simple but amazing edit.
• the warm colors of the video
• good close-ups
• great background

what could have gone better:

• the background quality in the shot of the main singer
• the length of the guitar close-up clip
• the timing of the camera looking up and down is out of sync
• not many unique camera angles (all mid-shot and close-up)

For the Shoot, I’m aiming for the quality of the shoots to go well, with the filter I have over the whole video some effects can cause the footage to look worse. my cover story for the narrative is about a teenager who gets in an unfortunate accident and becomes a ghost. I need my ghost to at least look like a traditional ghost.

Where did you go? How did it go?

My actors and I when across the road to an empty field where the grass was about knee high and was a nice yellow color in some areas, and overall the performance went well with only a few hiccups along the way, we got a good amount of good footage that was useable at some really good points

Reflect – what went well? what went badly?

we got a few good shots that made a really nice intro as the song starts, for both of the band members I did a verticle pan that went in the opposite direction for each of them, and for some of the lip-sync parts we lip-synced really well by my main actor, but I didn’t get all the footage I wanted or enough of the camera angles I wanted.

Focus forward – do you need to pick up shots? how does this help represent your star image?

we will need a few pick-up shots as I didn’t get all the shots that I wanted to do, for example, I wanted to get some long shots of the guitarist at different ranges, and I would have liked to get a super close-up of the actual guitar being played.

Having a production meeting agenda is by far one of the best things to have when creating a large-scale project like this, it’s a physical agreement between group members to follow the guidelines and avoid any issues that may happen such as a disagreement on outfits or props. if written down and discussed properly it can be a perfect tool to ensure your group follows the guidelines of the star image and Mis en scene. using this sheet saves tonnes of time as well as shows the conventions in a quick and easy-to-understand way.

Here is an image of my Student Risk Assessment, this consist of anything that could be a risk during the filming of the performance, for example: since we are filming in a field there could be rabbit holes that he cannot see or sharp rocks to trip over.

Using a risk assessment is incredibly useful and will be useful in the future, it’ll allow me to plan for the worst to happen and to avoid any injuries, and it also shows others where we would be when filming.

This is a previous A-level Media Student’s music video.

I love this music video because the song they chose isn’t a popular song compared to other songs listened to, and the music video’s narrative is really quite fitting to the song as it sings about ancient aliens and such. The timing with the video cutting to a new angle or scene is ideally on beat with the song and the lip-syncing is basically perfect and the singer has a voice that suits the actor.

The narrative and performance ratio is about 3:1, there are parts where you see instruments being played in time with the song. the narrative seems like it’s supposed to be some form of FBI/MIB theme to it with the detective board of notes and sheets with parts that are blacked out or say CLASSIFIED, this makes the main star seems mysterious, in the song the star sigs about aliens, and time machines so they seem like the type of person to believe all these conspiracies.

The video switches from the star sitting in casual clothing in front of a large wall covered in sheets that are covered in redacted paragraphs of writing to the same background. Still, they’re now wearing a black suit with a white shirt and the camera cuts from a mid-distance to a close up of the mouth or eyes of the star.