Production Log - Visiting the location

I have just returned from visiting my location so decided to vlog about it. I went to visit the Rose Garden in Hyde park and took some footage/photographs of the location which I will make into a short video on Premiere.

Production Log - Refining research and storyboarding my ideas

This week I have been trying to refine the research tasks that I completed over the summer holidays and upload them to my blog, adding commentary under every post. I have used my free time to do this as I felt it would be a better use of class time to complete one of the planning tasks instead.

This week I started working on my storyboard which I will use to help me when filming my video. Having done the script and shot list before hand, it has been much easier to create the storyboard as I am literally just bringing my ideas to life through drawings.
As my art skills are not the best, I will ask one of the art students to re-draw the shots for me once I have completed my first draft. I will then go on location with the actors and take photographs to also make into a storyboard.
Creating several drafts of the storyboard will help me to understand the best way to film the video as well as making it easier as I will be able to use the storyboard as instructions for filming to ensure that I get the right shots needed to make my music video look as realistic and professional as possible.

Health and Safety

Health and Safety

This is a risk assessment that I had to fill out before commencing any filming for my media coursework music video. This risk assessment allows me to ensure that all health and safety precautions are taken to make sure that all risks are avoided or have a plan if they need to be dealt with, which will make the filming process more efficient.

Actor Release Form

I asked my protagonist, Monique Todd to sign an Actor Release form to confirm that she agrees to me using photographs and footage of her throughout my media studies coursework, entitled 'A Thousand Years'.

Storyboard

Anamatic

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Production Log - location ideas

Through my research, one thing that I have found to be very important in setting the tone and helping to specify the genre of a music video is the setting. As the song my video is set to is in the Pop genre and has a very ethereal feel, I thought that it would be appropriate to set my video outside. I would like to use a setting with several trees and bushes where I would be able to hang fairy lights. I would also use the branches to hang some of the clues that the protagonist would find, leading her to her lover.

I believe that the simple, yet embellished setting would allow the audience to understand the story without it being distracting and would militate the intimate, ethereal theme of the song too to ensure that there is continuity editing throughout the music video.