Addition to Location Recce

Tour of music video set

Behind the Scenes of Day 1

Over the weekend I shot more of my music video, I named this 'Day 1' as this is the first day i have brought another camera with me to document my movements. On this particular day my main aim was only to film cutaways, which are short clips inbetween the narractive and performance! These clips occur at times such as the chorus ect

Asking permission to use basketball court

For one of my scenes I will be needing to use a basketball court to take some camera shots. I therefore emailed someone to arrange this.

DSLR Camera's as apposed to Big TV Camera's

In recent times, music video's, tv shows and even some films are now being shot using smaller DSLR camera's as apposed to big shoulder mounted tv style cameras. This is for many reasons, first of all it is much easier to carry around lighter weighted equipment, secondly the quality can be better as different lenses allow different types of light to be consumed and frame rate can constantly be changed.

To shoot my music video, I will therefore be using a combination of two camera's, these will both be DSLR. One is the Canon 550D and the other one will be the Canon 5D. It is usually not reccommend to use two different types of camera's however in this case as the two models are almost identical with only slight differences, I believe that the 5D will be better for some shots and vice versa.

To get my head around this new style of filming I had to first play around with the DSLR. These camera's have a main purpose of being photography camera's and can shoot some amazing imagery. I therefore firstly took some photographs while changing settings on aperture, then changed things such as frame speed to see differences and what works best.

I later used these settings on video mode as this is what my main intention in using the camera.




The first picture shows where the appeture is very low and clearly the background of my model (reece) is very blury and allows him to stand out.

The second image however is of Reece with a very high appeture setting, here, everything including the background is in focus.

Diary Entry

So recently I have been planning to shoot my video with all the plans that I have completed. I had planned to shoot the first scene of my video last friday, however due to unfortunatley falling ill, I had to cancel on my artists and the shoot. However I will be shooting this week my first scene and other scenes that include the artists lip synching.

Hopefully, by getting these scenes done this week I will still be on time and will not be behind on my work. Planning wise, I am compelete and ready to film. I have only got minor adjustments to make now.

Photo Session 1

Diary Entry 7th October

Recently, we have been working on planning our album artwork for the digipack and the designs. I have sketched some ideas for the digipack which I have uploaded on the blog. I also done one photoshoot to try out some photo's with different angles and locations in order to play around with them on photoshop and see what I could possibly use for my cover. A video of this will be uploaded once I have finished exporting it.

I then went out to film and test different angles and shots. I also wanted to test some lighting effects such as natural sunlight and where its best to stand in relation to the sun. I then edited these shots to test reverse shots, split scenes, extreme slow motion and more.

I will be ready to shoot my music video with in the next few weeks and am very excited to do so!

Summer Holidays Diary!

Bonjour! This is diary number 5 and I now have had 4 weeks off school and all i have to say is...
Wow! Well what a summer it has been for the music industry. Wretch 32 has gone number 1 with his single 'don't go' - this artist has been around in the underground music scene for years and has finally made it to number 1 nationwide, nobody thought it would happen! I really like the video he had to offer for this as it went so well with the song and lyrics itself:



On saturday I will be going to film someone as they have asked me to come along and help them, I will also be editing it. I can't give away too much right now but what I can say is that it will be amazing experience before my media project and I will post the video on here when it is complete!

Diary week 4

Diary Week 3

Bonjour! This is my third week of A2 Media Studies and I feel that I have been very productive this week! I have been undertaking auditions for my music video as I have chosen the genre of song I will be doing, 'UK Rap'. I will be posting images of the auditions very shortly on to my blog.

I have analysed even more music videos and covers which can be seen below, also I have experimented with other forms of uploading my projects and research onto the blog such as scribd, slideshare and more!

I have also subscribed to many youtube channels and blogs such as Vevo which show the latest music videos as they come out so that I can find inspiration.

Diary Week 1 & 2