Blog Reflection - Week 15 - Completing and Finishing Products

Blog Reflection - Week 14

Blog Reflection - Week 13 - Adapting / Improving our idea

Updated Shooting Script

During the Production of our music video many things changed and needed to be updated and we adapted our shooting script.

Blog Reflection - Week 12

What have you been focusing on this week?

This week we recorded the footage in London such as the graffiti shots and some London Eye shots that have the extreme depth of field. We went out to London to get some sunset based shots but the travel to get into London took much longer than expected and it got darker much quicker so we had to improvise, and I had brought an LED light for backup, with multiple batteries for a longer charge.Many of the shots that were recorded came out much better than expected and had a heavy prominence in the final cut. The shots flowed well with the theme that we wanted to portray and this became very useful for our music video as we wanted to project our artists goals and backgrounds. During this day out we recorded lots of footage to have more than we needed. We got many landscape shots but we decided to not have many of them in the music video.


What key concepts have you been focusing on?

This week the main key concept was mise-en-scene as we needed more diversity and more pleasing shots for our music, so having the lots of graffiti on the walls and getting some other various based shots for the music video. While we was out there we got lots of different vibes beacuase of london being centred around many different ethnic cultures and this is shown through the use of art and graffiti in the walls are the filming location.

What were the main decisions and revisions you have made?

Filming in London was a huge benefit for our music video and brought with it many advancements with our product as the locations and visuals make the music video much more appealing and this was chosen by us to go this location. Another huge benefit was that the noise in the shots were kept to a minimum and had no huge direct affect on the final product making the footage much better than expected.

Blog Reflection - Week 11

Blog Reflection - Week 10

What have you been doing this week?

-Shooting Script finalisation
-First filming shots

This week we have been fully planning and typing the shots that we want to have in our music video in our shooting script, we spent a lot of time on the shooting script as its the main -part of the planning that contains most of the information of our music video, we want other many different alterations and choices for our music video such as the use of actors and what we want the artist to be doing in the shot. We also decided where to shoot exactly as well such as in London for some London  and forest shots. After palling the duration of the shots and what it contains we filmed some of the first shots later on the week such as some of the street shots and the filming and the shots were ok, some parts will be replaced and changed but it was decent.

We went for a gritty sense for the street shots that link to the artists growing up and beginning phase and we also went for key typical locations such as underpasses or walkways or alleys to suit this mood and iconography at the beginning.







What Key concepts have you been focusing on?

The main focus we have been focusing on is the use of having a visually pleasing shots in our music videos such as the use of the forest shots that would juxtapose our main artist. We also liked the use of lost of effects in our music video so we have prepared for that as well, similar to our first test shots at the beginning of the year. We also have been including lots of cinematic shots in our music video as we want to have a film type look to our music video similar to Kendrick Lamar's DNA at the beginning.

What were the main decisions and revisions you have made?

The main choices and decisions we made was to have more pleasing shots so we changed some of the location's to suit the music videos vibe much more. We also wanted to change some of the style of shots to better fit with the actor and pace of the song as it would flow the song much more.

Shooting Script

Blog Reflection - Week 9

Production Schedule

Location Reccies