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We made a storyboard with images and a range of shots we are going to include to help us out with our shoot for our narrative. This will be useful as we all know what is happening and when, but in more detail then the production meeting agenda. This storyboard was created so we are all clear on what we are trying to create in our video and how we are planning on doing this to create narrative sense.

A list of thing we will make sure we include in order to create a succesful narrative half to our music video is:

• sequencing
• narrative structure
• narrative themes
• cut to close up
• reaction shots
• variety of shot distances

These conventions will help us to not dissapoint the audience and give them what they are expecting for our music video.

In order for us to be able to go out of school on thursday for our shoot we needed to complete a risk assesment to minamise or eliminate any dangers or hazzards we may come across.

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This is our final risk assesment signed and completed by us and our teacher. This means we cannot change anything on this piece of paper as the stuff written is there to protect us on our shoot.

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For our first narrative shoot it is important we have a PMA as this keep us organised and lets the team filming, acting and supervising to understand where we are at what times. This also helps everyone understand where they need to be and what they need to bring incase they forget or have had recent absences that leads them to not know what they need, when they need it and where thye need to bring it to. This would also help us as if our teacher needs to get hold of us we have the school phone number to gain contact easily.

After our shoot had completed we moved onto our post-production stage of editing and making our music video clips fit together to make a music video with the normal conventions. To edit our music video we are using PremierPro.

Upon reflection here is what we did well and what we need to work on:

What we did well:

• Aswell as doing mid shots and other essential shots we tried interesting transitions as shown above
• Our editing was done to compliment the music (edited to the beat)
• We made sure we didn’t randomly cut to different locations we recycled and reused clips to compliment our genre
• We all had a go at editing clips to help us gain a deeper understanding of how the softwarae works
• We managed to craete a music video that is interesting to a certain extedn just absed on performance

what we could’ve done better:

• Used more close- ups of the instruments to add a sense of dynamic and a change to midshot and longshot angles
• Make sure there are no unwanted people or objects in the back of our shot as this will create a new place for people to look and attract their attention away from the main star
• Made sure the camera angles complimented with the positioning of the band in certain shots and angles
• In order to keep our audience engaged we could do a different transition shot or swap between clips quicker and more efficiently to gain interest and attention from our target audience.

This will help my group when it comes to filming our narrative and editing our music video alltogther as we know what works with our genre and also have key factors we know we have to work on for example taking more angles then needed incase we cant use a previous shot. This will cause us less issues as we won’t have to reuse any clips that rae blurry or that have been disrupted.

On the day of our first perfromance shoot everything was successful due to our planning and organisation we could easily get the shots we needed as well as the angles to fit with the perfomrance style and type of band we created. We arrived and started filming at our first shoot at 1pm as this was the time everyone was avalible from doing other shoots and transport. This was also the time we had access to all of the equipment we needed. The timing was also planned around popularity of our location shoot. From location 1 we then had to go home and wait to have permission to use our location number 2 which was an undergound car park. We had to wait due to the undergound car park being near an office building and we didn’t want to disturb the people working in the office.

While shooting we gave Kai the key filming as he wasn’t in the band however Josh and I were, knowing this we will make sure to credit everyone for everything and give everyone a chance to film during our narrative shoot.

What went well:

• we had done a production meeting agenda to make sure everybody was organized and ready for the shoot
• We shot the whole song in long-shot and close-up first so we alwasy had extra clips to add in
• We tried a range of different shoots including a transition from location to location
• Mes everyone looked together and we looked like a band
• used multiple locations

what we could’ve done better:

• figure out some more interesting shots to accomodate our genre
• More close-up shots of the instruments
• high angles and low angels could’ve made the shots more interesting