My Role

I took up the part of the director and also a producer for the film, this means that I had to organize all of the shoots and insure that all of the shots were filmed and timed correctly.

In the production process of the film I contributed a lot to the story board by telling Luke what shots I wanted and giving my opinions on the shots that would take place, I also worked with Ryan on the timings of the shots and worked on pointing out what lines of the songs went with each shot, this helped us to plan out the music video more efficiently and helped with editing the music video.

I ensured that all of the required equipment was booked for the right time and that all the equipment was ready to go for each shoot. As Ryan was setting up the cameras I ensured that all of the other equipment such as the Jib and the tripods were all ready to go as well as letting the actors know what we were filming next and what they needed to do.

I created a Shooting schedule that would help me to plan out what time of the day each shot will be filmed, the shooting schedule ensured that all of the shots were filmed on time this helped us to make the shoot more efficient and get more filmed in a shorter amount of time, this also ensured that no shot was missed and everything we planned to film was included.

Ryan created a document that showed the timings of all of the lines highlighting at what time they started, what time they ended and the duration of each line, this was very helpful to me as I used it a lot to find the part of the song that Cara needed to sing. Playing the song from my laptop she could sync herself to the timings of the song, ensuring that syncing her voice to the song in post would be a lot easier.

While on set in the warehouse I was the one that was telling everyone what shot we were filming next, what they had to be doing and what part of the song it was. I was responsible for ensuring that all of the shots were filmed and synced correctly so that in post we could easily choose the shot we wanted and sync it up to the film. I came up with a lot of shots during the actual filming of the warehouse scene such as, a shot of Cara starting from her feet and rising up the length of her body, this shot was really effective a looked really good. Another shot I came up involved Cara moving from the mic stand to the lead guitarist and dancing back to back then moving over to the Bass player and start to sing at him, this shot also worked really well as it looks very natural and fun.

In editing I gave a lot of opinion towards how I would like it to look, obviously the music video had already been planned out which meant the editing would be easier and go faster,  we all looked over it many times and gave our opinions on whether or not a certain shot worked or if we thought that a shot needed to be replaced etc.

I helped a lot with the color grading of the music video, this turned out to be a lot harder than we thought it would be myself and Luke worked on color grading the music video, we discovered that there were differences in the styles in which we filmed, meaning that a lot of the shots looked very different when it came to color. This made the color grading a lot more time consuming.

As well as color grading I also contributed to the making the small videos and the credits at the end of the video, these small videos were added as we thought that they would make the music video a bit more light-hearted and was a fun way to end the music video.