Music Video workshop day

Nicola and Al started by giving use some tips at how to be successful this year in media and how to create effective products. These tips were provided by Pete Fraser

They were:

• Multitasking; To get all of the products done for the deadline we will have to work on the video, website and digipak consecutively to get them all done
• Blog: Keep your blog clean and ordered. Post blog titles if they need to be filled in later so that everything stays in the right order.
• Evidence everything; include examples of different of real media products and show the thought process and the way that you think. 
• Test ideas for costumes, props and test shots
• Practices with the software that we will be using in the making of the final product

This has impacted my work as it has given me golden rules

1. Use my blog as a dairy, updating it with every thought that I have.
2. Be creative with the shots that we take getting a range of shots with different angles, distances and lengths.
3. Play the music while we are filming the video. 
4. Create empty blog posts with just the titles to make sure that everything is in order
5. Keep on top of time management. 
6. Multitask so that everything gets done
7. Communicate regularly with the other members of the group.
8. Don't leave anything till the last minute.

We also recreated this music video using a range of different equipment. We set up cameras around the places that people would be performing. The lights were distributed behind them. 

We learned how to use the fig rig, the track.We also learned to best way to light the people that we are filming. The lights should be facing the camera and at the same level as the camera. We had cameras at all angles so that we had a range of shots to use The camera at the infront of the performers got wides shots of all of them together.

The main skills we got from this were

• Learning how to use the cameras, fig rig and track so that we can create creative shots
• Its best to film with a tripod so that the shots are as steady as possible. if filming without the tripod then the camera should be held as steadily as possible so the footage isn't blurred.
• We gained skills in how to be more creative with shots that we take.