Conclusion

The planning of the music video was very successful, by planning out the music video we were able to shoot all of the shots efficiently with relative ease, the storyboard was probably the most important part of the planning process as we were able to identify the narrative shot by shot. The shooting schedule helped me to ensure that all of the shots were filmed and also helped with timing the shoot. The lyric breakdown helped me and the band (including Cara) to sync up the beats/voices to the song. By making a lighting plan we were able to imagine how the lights would look before being on set, this saved time in setting-up.

Even though setting up in the warehouse took slightly longer than what we expected, the shoot in general went really well, the hardest shot we had to film was the shot of the camera tracking away from the projection on the wall and moving to Cara singing the song with the band, this shot involved a lot of timing because we had to time Cara on the projection to ensure she was synced when she was singing in the warehouse.The rest of the filming went without hitch, the only problem with the warehouse scene was sorting the projection out and the fact that we finished a couple of hours later than we thought we would.

We didn't encounter many problems while shooting the narrative, the only problem we did have was having to stop and wait for various dog walkers and people getting into the shots accidentally, this wasn't a major problem it just set us back a bit time wise but I had allowed time for this and we actually finished that shoot ahead of schedule.

Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome of the music video, I feel as if we did a good job at editing it to the beat and I feel that the pace of the video helps to keep the audience interested in it. We worked really well as a team which I feel shows in the finished product.

I feel as if I have learnt a lot from this assignment and have gained more experience about organization, syncing, color correcting and directing. The only real problem we had was with the different camera styles but I feel as if I helped to overcome the issues that arose from this complication.