Production Diary: Continuing Storyboarding

 

I have continued with planning my music video by sketching the storyboards and included the type of shots and which lyrics go with which sketch. Again this will help me in advance as my music video will be more organised as it was planned before shooting. 

Production Diary: Storyboarding

 

I completed my first couple of sketches, I have included a narrative of the artist getting ready in her room as I think this is clearly highlighted in the lyrics of the music video. I have also included the shots which I will be using in my music video to make it easier for me when I come to shooting my video as I will have planned everything before the shooting. 

Production Diary: Storyboard

Due to last lesson I was already analysing the new music video and making it my own, I continued to storyboard everything roughly onto paper. Throughout the week I was coming up with more and more ideas for my music video and also got some opinions and ideas from school friends. Some mentioned types of camera angles that would look good, for example using a crane during a dance performance. The person who told me this idea has already seen an outcome of this type of camera movement and believes it looks really good after shooting and when it’s all put together. I also watched Katy Perry’s new lyric video and liked how she uses a texting way of highlighting the lyrics, I was thinking of adding that in to my music video on a strong line which is obvious to the audience. 

I hope to have my storyboard completed this time next week. So that I can start shooting my music video as soon as possible. 

Production Diary: Different Song Choice

Over the weekend I analysed a previous student’s music video which happened to be of the same artist I am doing. I watched it through many times and then remembered that my artist said that she would prefer a song more upbeat and due to not wanting to change pop artist I began to look up more of Pixie Lott's songs and decided that I would do 'All about tonight' just like the previous student. I made this choice as I thought I could come up with a better music video as I already had some ideas. I spoke to my artist and she preferred this song choice. 

In the lesson, I began to analyse the song lyrics and coming up with different routines for each line/verse. I wrote down all the ideas that I had onto paper roughly and then added a description of how the music video would look like. I managed to do this for the first few lines of the song. I also compared the new song choice with the old song choice and believe that I made a better song choice. 

Analysis of Previous Student Music Video

I analysed another students work, this gave me the understanding the creating a music video is possible if you have an idea for a narrative and for some performance.

Production Diary: Previous Students Work

In today’s lesson, I went through previous A2 students work and analysed a few music videos, some of which were of a high quality and some which had bad green screening. After evaluating these music videos I began to have more ideas for my music video. I've noticed how over the years the quality of the music videos has changed to better; this is due to the types of cameras and lightings used. Green screening has become a lot more successful and looks a lot more professional compared to how it was a few years back. There were some music videos which looked really pixelated and not professional due to bad green screening. I may use a bit of green screening for my music video but I am not 100% certain as I may go for a more narrative type of music video. 

Production Diary: Future Plans

Over the summer holiday I completed all my research tasks, I did this so that when I come back from the holidays I can focus more on creating my music video. By completing all these research tasks allows me to prepare more for my music video as I am thinking forward and gradually coming up with more ideas. After the holidays I will be storyboarding my music video and hopefully by October half term I will have shot my music video and got some of my planning tasks completed. I have been keeping on top of all these tasks so that at the end of the project I won’t be stressed over the amount of work needed to complete, therefore I have been completing all my tasks to the best of my ability so that I don’t need to go back on my work trying to improve each task.