Location shots

 This is where i am partly going to film my video this is where part of the running sequence will take place. I like the way that the tress create darkness and shadows.

I want to include a section of footage so that it looks like the character is panning upwards towards the sky.

Some of the footage will be of the character running through the trees, the trees are signified as obstacles in the way of her.

Weather For The Running Sequence Monday 28th November

This is what the weather forecast is doing for Monday the 28th of November. I will be shooting the part of the running sequence in west hill, the time of the shoot will be roughy around 1:45- 3:30. The weather for these times looks dry and cloudy which is what i want so that it adds to the atmosphere of the shots.

Costume ideas

Here I have generated ideas on pinterest to how i would like the main protagonist to dress for the filming. I have thought of the ice of maybe using a cape to help show the movement and speed of the running. I could use a red one so that it signifies danger, I was thinking that if i was to do this i would have everything in the background black and white then i could make the red cape stand out by cutting it out allowing the colour to come through. This idea was taken from the film schindler's list. Another idea I've had is if they dress in dark sort of rough clothes big puffy jacket to show the atmosphere as being cold and isolated.

Risk Assessment

When filming my music video I had to carry out a risk assessment so that I knew what the risks for the people and the risk for the equipment were. The table below shows the risks and how much of a risk they would have been.

Student Music Videos

 After I had researched students short films i then went on to looking at student music videos. I found this gave me an insight into what I had to do.


I firstly looked at a student music video for Faded- Alen Walker, I thought that it had a really good narrative and thought that the concept of the past and present footage was really good. It was about a boy that had lost his girlfriend. At the beginning you are a bit unsure on whats happening I initially thought that they just split up. I think that the way that they have staged it really makes you want to carry on watching and watch til the end. This is very important especially with the way that they have shown it because you don't know the real reason of whats happened until you get to the end so they had to make sure it was interesting enough to watch till the end.

I then went on to looking at a Sia- Breathe Me music video, I thought that you could clearly see some similarities to some of the other Sia videos in terms of using a dancer in an empty room. I think that it works really well and I really like how they have edited on the beat. Its a bit harder to understand this storyline I think. I like the idea of the dancing happening then other videos of the narrative and storyline. 

Animatic

This is the animatic that I have made from the photos of my storyboard. I think that this has given me a clearer view of how the music video will look. I think this is a valuable part of the planning and is very worth it because it means that you can sort of see what it will look like before you go out and film it and it allows you to change things before you go film it.

Feedback From Pitch

So on Friday 23rd September I pitch my idea for my music video to an audience ranging from 17-18 year olds. I think that my pitch was very beneficial to find out what the audience liked and disliked about my video ideas, and this gave them time to give me advise and tell me what I could do to improve my idea.

 From my feedback I found that the audience really liked the idea and the concept of my music video, they really liked the idea that I was going to use a black and white theme and then have a red cape. I showed the audience some of the inspiration  that I found from other music videos such as Sia' 'The Greatest' music video and explained how I liked the idea of the group of dancers and wanted to use this in my piece so that the main protagonist was shown clearly in the middle and then other dark characters were there almost as if they were fighting her within a dance routine.

Some of the feedback that I got given was that overall it was a really good idea and that I should think about editing on the beat because there is such a big drumming noise in the song the said that if I was able to edit to the beat to make it very fast pace then it would make the music video really good.