Props

Here is the prop list for the items used in my music video

These are the props used for the performance side of my video:

Here are the Electric and Bass guitars that were used in filming, however they did not have straps on unfortunately so this is why I have chosen to do some close up shots of them playing so as you could not tell the players were sat down (it was awkward to play the instruments stood up).

This is the drum kit I used in the performance, however we could not find any drum sticks so we had to adapt to using pens instead - hopefully this is not noticeable!

Below is the microphone used by the lead singer, again for realism.

These are the props used for the narrative half of the video:




This and another photograph were used, they were not stuck into the album so as the singer was able to interact with them.
These are supposed to represent past memories and again the singer not being able to let go of what he's lost.




This was the album used in filming, it originally was to demonstrate a metaphor of the couple breaking up however this was too tedious to achieve and instead I chose to use it as a suggestion of memories.




Here is the phone used in my video to also demonstrate the singer cannot let go of the girl as he is ringing her.

Filming Schedule

I found my downfall on this project to be the fact that my filming schedule wasn't very solid, this often resulted in me rushing about trying to film when I could without any thought to it.
Next time with filming I will make sure I plan and know what I'm definitely doing way in advance, resulting in less stress and I will enjoy what I'm doing more.

However from what I filmed this was my schedule:

Day One:

I decided to start filming the narrative to experiment with shots and decide what would look best.
I used Sam and Maddie for this part as they were of course the couple I used in the narrative.
I had to explain to my actors what the song was about so they knew how to act around each other in the right scenes, I feel this went well and we managed to achieve love scenes as well as break up ones effectively.
I enjoyed directing my actors with how to act in the scenes.
However I feel time went too quickly here and I didn't fully know what I wanted to film, I ended up with less filming than I would've liked.

Day Two:

Today I managed to get a loan of instruments (Guitar, bass, drumkit, microphone) from the music department in school and I started filming the performance side of my music video.
This time I used Maddie, Sam, Jodie & Jakub as the constructed band and I decided to use my school stage as the setting because it looked more realistic and represented the target audience well.
We ran into trouble from the beginning of filming as both guitars had no straps and were awkward to hold, and the drumkit had no drum sticks so we had to make do with using pens and hoping that no one would notice!
We overcame the problem of having no guitar straps by getting both players to sit down and play the guitars instead.

Because the singer didn't know the lyrics entirely we often had to reshoot the miming scenes, I played the music in the background so as it was easier for the singer to know when to mime.
I felt the drumkit shots were the best of the day as even though Jakub couldn't play the drums at all he did a pretty good job!

Day Three:

Here I planned what narrative to film and went out to do it as it was a nice sunny day and was perfect for the silhouette shots I wanted.
I felt more comfortable with filming as I had planned ahead and I got a lot more done with shots I preferred.
Overall today I felt I had enough filming to finish my video entirely.

Third Day of Filming

Today I decided to film the remaining amount of narrative I needed to make my video more interesting to watch.

Here are some examples of shots I was particularly pleased with:

Second Day of Filming

Today I started filming the performance side of my music video.
I found it particularly hard to get my band members to mime playing the instruments as well as sing to the lyrics because they didn't know the song very well, however after a few plays of the song we managed to replicate a decent miming of the song.

I also found that time went very quickly during setting up and filming all of the performance, so I found I ran out out time and didn't film as much as I could've. But I am happy with what I have filmed so far, I just have to make sure the props are the same next time to keep continuity.


Here were some accepted shots of the day:

First Day of Filming

My first day of filming I chose to film the narrative first and get it out of the way, if I were to refilm any of these shots I will make sure they are wearing the same clothes so as continuity is achieved - this may eventually become a problem.

Here are some clips I will be using in my video:



Shot one displays a happy memory of the couple that the singer will reminisce about, it is more colourful in comparison with the bad memories they have together so as to show a contrast in emotions. I am happy with this shot as it demonstrates a happy teenage couple (target audience of the video being teenagers), this is emphasised by all the focus being placed on them holding hands.

Shot two is the shot I will be using to demonstrate the singer picking up the photo album, I prefer the angle on this as doesn't show exactly what the singer is picking up until the next shot - this would provoke curiousity in the audience.

Shot three and four follow on from shot two to display to the audience exactly what the singer is doing/looking at so as the narrative is obvious.


Rejected Shots:

Here are a few of the shots I rejected or redid later on -



Shot one I rejected because I felt the couple looked more like good friends than romantically involved, I redid did the shot to make them look more intimate whilst still keeping the happy feel to it.

Shot two I rejected because I felt the angle I used in the other shot of the photo album was a lot more effective in displaying what is happening, this angle to me feels flat and boring so I decided against using it.

Shot three was rejected for the cat appearing in shot, brilliant timing!

My Music Video Animatic

This time round we worked on our own animatics to represent what our music videos would hope to look like - a starting point.
I edited some of the shots slightly to represent zoom-in shots and tried to get the pictures to reflect the change in music.
Looking back on this animatic I notice how much I've change my final video in comparison, however the use of most of the shots are still the same as I liked the ideas (they are just not necessarily in this order!)

The shots I decided to change were to help the end product have a wider variety of shots than my animatic displays.