Skills Development - Production

I have approached the planning of this production than my AS thriller production in two completely different ways. 

To begin with, as my AS work was a thriller opening to a film, its codes and conventions are different in terms of camerawork, and editing. 

To plan for our music video, we had to firstly find a song we were going to use, claim copyright clearance, find locations and request permission to film there, get performers, create a filming schedule, costume, lights, risk assessment and leave enough time to re-film if necessary. We also had to plan in advance whether we wanted our video to have slow motion or a fast speed so we can prepare to have the song itself sped up or slowed down for our performer to sing to. Thankfully we didn't have to. 

In terms of  planning this production, we had to do a detailed storyboard so we knew what shot types, angles and locations to film once we had got there. 

Planning is 100% essential before going out to film a music video, otherwise, once we had gotten to our location, we'd have no idea what to film or whether or not the space was available or not. We also had to plan carefully around the weather as this time of year in London, the rain could have mad an appearance.