Category: Music Video

This is our first draft of our music video, we only have performance in this draft.

I like the black and white theme/filter that we used in the lumetri colour settings, I think it looks a lot better than what the colour version does, the black and white fits our mafia/gangster theme much better than the colour version does.

I think lots of quick cuts is definitely the way to go with our music video instead of doing longer dragged out clips, the quick cuts fit very well with the pace of our song.

Shoot 1 Reflection:

In the first lesson/half of our shoot we shot in the dark drama room, we weren’t entirely sure if this room would be available for us to use but we went to try anyway and we could use it for only the first half of our shoot. This room was especially useful for our shoot as we wanted as little natural light as possible and this room has blackout blinds and these big studio lights, so we had full control over our lighting. There was also several things in the room to use such as tables and chairs. What we could’ve done better in the drama room was we left a little bit of light at the back from one of the windows which could’ve saved us time in editing and we also could’ve focused the lights on the model a bit more as some light shines onto the background.

In the second lesson/half of our shoot we moved over to the black studio room, we used this time in the smaller room to do more close up shots as in the drama room there’s a lot of space to do wider angles and longer shots. This room is particularly good for our close ups, having access to the studio lights, I think we split our time between close-ups and further out shots in the two studios well. This studio like the drama room can be completely blacked out with no light at all, I feel as if we picked the best environments for performance shoot. We did spend quite a bit of our time in the black studio setting up, maybe some more time or if we had setup earlier we could’ve got some more shots and maybe some better shots although I’m very happy with how this shoot went and think this is my best shoot we’ve done so far.

We used our shot list to try and achieve as many different types of shots as we could, however some of the shots didn’t come out as we wanted in our test such as our dolly zoom, so we didn’t try them in our actual shoot because our time was valuable in there. We are very happy with the range of shots we achieved, and feel like these well represent the image we wanted to give off.

Our risk assessment:

Drake Star Image and Meta Narrative:

http://https://prezi.com/view/2H2u6NHPFJsKbOPILvx9/

This is our visual shot list, this shows many different angles and techniques we plan to use during our shoot. This will give us a general guide while filming what we need to achieve, when we are setting up for our shoots we can follow our shot list and setup accordingly.

Permission from the artist

Our Pitch

Our final song choice is ‘Drake – Gyalchester’

We chose this song because:

• The general sound of the song fits with our music videos narrative unlike something like a 2000’s pop song.
• This song is slower than many other rap songs, making it easier to lip sync.
• This genre of our chosen song is also not common during this project and we wanted to try something different.