Call Sheet for Test Shoot

This is the call sheet for the test shoot I completed on the 16th of October

Production Log - Feedback

In todays lesson I filmed five people from my class, all of which fit within the target audience of my music video, to give me some feedback on my idea. This way I will be able to get an understanding as to whether it would appeal to them, and if not, any changes I could make that would change their views. I found doing this extremely helpful as some people also gave me ideas on possible shots and editing techniques I could use that will enhance the video to the maximum. As they fall within my target audience it also gives a good opinion from someone it is aimed at rather than someone that isn't.

Production Log - Test Shoot Footage

I conducted a shoot for my music video which was solely 'test-shoots'. This allowed me to play around with the lighting to find out which ways looked best and also the settings on the camera; after editing the footage it also then taught me things I would have to change for my actual film shoot and things that looked good and things that didn't. After filming I edited it all together and used the song 'High Hopes' by Kodaline. Although it was not the actual song I am using for my music video, it is still by the same artist so fits with the theme. I experimented with the positioning of the lights which I found quite difficult to get it just how I wanted it to look. Doing this made me realise I need more of a black background in order to get the effect I would like. Also, I need to move the lights about behind the artist so her face isn't too bright which is what I found some of the shots came out like; also, this turned out to be a certain setting on the camera that made all the shots extremely bright- I now know this for my actual shoot so the shots are as good as they can be.


Whilst editing I found that some of the shots I did, I'd prefer them to be slowed down to fit more with the music so in order to do so I will have to change the camera settings to a faster shutter speed so when I slow it down on Premiere it would still have a good effect rather than looking quite jittery and jumpy. I then decided to create a black and white colour overlay once i'd finished editing so I exported both a colour and black and white copy; the black and white will create the authentic 50's style look that I am going for so when I create my actual music video I will be able to compare both of them and also compare a more sepia/vintage colour overlay as well to see which has the best effect.

Production Log - Presentations of Coursework so far

In class we were set a task to create a presentation of our progress within the course so far under 4 different headings:
1- Our blog
2- Concept of our video
3- Planning so far
4- Next steps
I did this within a powerpoint form so I can have images and some text on the screen and then I could present it and talk in deeper detail to the rest of the class rather than just reading off of a sheet of paper or the actual slides themself. In order to do this task I had to carefully go through my blog, the planning and research tasks required and see what I had left to do- this suprisingly made me realise I had done much more than I thought I had.





In one of our lessons I then presented to the class- I found this a very good oppertunity and was very beneficial. Firstly, I got a much wider range of feedback on my music video idea from a whole class compared to just a few people who I initially asked. Most people really liked the idea and thought that it could work as a music video. I found getting feedback in big masses very helpful so because of this I plan to do it more often- possibly get more people from my target audience age range to see what they think, whether it would appeal to them etc. However I'll do this in a more multi-media form such as filming people on one of the media department's cameras.

Production Log - Planning for video

This week I have mainly been focussing on any extra work I could do that will benefit me before filming but isn't within the specification of work we must complete. To start with, rather than creating my album cover straight away I decided to sketch out some possible ideas which I then scanned in. This also gives me a hard copy of ideas that I can always refer back to whilst creating the album cover. I find drawing and writing things out much better for me when doing a project like this however I always ensure that I can upload this somehow so in this case I could scan in my drawings.

I created four different possibilities and even still I am unsure whether I will use any of them; I decided to create two landscape and two portrait. This way it gives me lots of different formats and then I can get audience feedback on what they think will look best- even still, I could create two different versions of the same in my final product. One landscape and one portrait; I would do this because of all the different places you can actually put an advert nowadays such as busstop (portrait) compared to a large billboard down a busy road (landscape) so my advert would accomodate all purposes.

I then decided to create an 'essentials list' whilst filming which I did on Prezi. I split it off into four different sections:
Equipment
Props
Costume
Stylling
This way it is easy to read and see the different elements I will need- I can then refer back to this just before going to film to ensure I have everything as that would be one of the biggest problems for example if I went to film and had forgotten both of the actor's costumes and this would put a big back-lag onto the production of my music video.

Whilst creating my risk assessment this is then something I have considered that I need to make sure I am 100% prepared and ready to film and have everything sorted when I do film or it will not benefit me at all. Because of this chance, I will make checklists for different people such as myself, the crew and also the actors to ensure I have everything I need.

Risk Assessment

I have created a risk assessment so I know everything that could go wrong whilst shooting my music video and things that I could do to minimise these problems from happening.

The Essentials/Props List