Month: July 2025

Shoot 2 Reflection (Narrative)

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Here are some behind the scenes photos from our narrative shoot.

What went well:

  • Good location
  • Good variety of shots e.g track, high angle, low angle, wide shot etc
  • Good costume
  • Shots where all pre-planned which was very time efficient
  • Experimented with a GoPro and came out with some really good shots
  • Good props

What Didn’t go well:

  • Facial expressions are a little boring
  • Could have some more close ups of her face
  • More side on shots
  • Should’ve experimented more with framing of the shots
  • Could’ve had more interesting hairstyle
  • Could’ve had simple natural makeup & more jewellery

This narrative shoot was made a lot easier than our previous performance shoot because we took the time to plan all our shots and scene ahead of the shoot, so we simply had to film them and tick them off. We wanted our artist to wear a bold and bright red jacket in order for her to stand out and add some variety from the all-white dress she wore for the performance shoot. We want to represent her star image (Dyer) in the narrative as self-assured yet still reminiscing and feeling down about not being friends with her childhood best friend. The setting is a wide-open field and a pathway, we want to portray a sense of freedom, individuality and a focus on nature. We used a really wide variety of shots and angles that cover every aspect of any action our model does. This ensures the end scenes are visually engaging and not one boring continuous mid or wide shot. This aids in fulfilling the viewers need for entertainment (Blumler & Katz). Our props came out really well and emphasise the childlike mannerisms of her and her younger best friend. We included friendship bracelets, birthday cards and drawings in the ‘best friend box’ to make sure the audience clearly understand what she is reminiscing (lost friendship).

This shoot was much better than our previous shoots as we took the time to plan and think ahead. This is something we will continue to do for all future shoots as it worked for us. Having something we can easily look at and tick off ensures that we get every angle and shot we need to be able edit it into one scene that grabs the audiences attention and hopefully reinforces their desire to join our artists fandom (Jenkins).

Test Shoot – Narrative

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This is the unedited ‘boring’ version of our narrative test shoot.

 

 

This is our edited version with a much wider variety of shots and angles.

WWW:

  • Interesting variety of shots
  • Variety of angles
  • Experimented with a POV shot which ended up working really well
  • Good low angles of her stepping over camera
  • Engaging and entertaining to watch

What didn’t go well:

  • Better focus on continuity of shots as some don’t line up
  • Could’ve used more of the first shot as it is visually engaging and entertaining to view
  • Try to edit to the beat more
  • Match on action doesn’t line up
  • Track shot looks like someone’s following her – we don’t want that

Filming this test shoot gave us an insight into how many different angles and shots go into one action in order to make it interesting and satisfy the audiences need for entertainment (Blumler & Katz).  For each action we film we need to make sure we use a variety of angles and shots to cover all sides and views of the action. The POV shot made it feel quite personal and helps to represent our star’s image (Dyer) as ordinary.  We tried out best to do match on action but found it was quite tricky and needed a little more planning which we will keep in mind for our narrative shoot. The movement through the frame provides something fun to look at that the audiences can follow along, it also helps to move the scene along and build a link to the next shot (where she is walking to) – this all helps to build the narrative.  We used a tracking shot however upon reflection it looks a little like someone is following our model – which isn’t what we want to portray/ suggest is happening.  It isn’t very conventional of the alt/ indie genre so we won’t be using it for our narrative.

The ‘boring’ version feels really empty and plain, it’s missing everything it needs to be attention grabbing and entertaining to view. Our edited version feels much more thought through, professional and engaging for the audience. We will make sure to keep this in mind and take a wide variety of shots and angles for every action in our narrative.

Production Meeting Agenda For Shoot 2 (Narrative)

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This is the Production Meeting Agenda (PMA) my group filled in together.

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Filling in this PMA is going to really benefit us as we all can refer back to this and bring it on the shoot with us. It ensures we all know what to bring and what we should remember. Photo inspiration is going to help us understand the vibe we are going for and the ways we can succeed in it. For the narrative portion of the music video we want to represent our stars image (Dyer) as very relatable and ordinary as to have a close and personal feel for the audience. She will be wearing typical teenager clothes (jeans & jacket) along with very simple/ basic makeup. We want to show the audience that we don’t have a huge production budget or team because it will make the video and model feel more authentic and something the viewer can identify with –  this is all in hopes of establishing a fandom (Jenkins) that will support and promote our artist.  Our props are also all listed/ shown with photos. We want our model to have a box of childhood memories, and for her to be going through them and reminiscing. The box will include stuffed animals, photos and old drawings. A variety of props will visually engage the audience and fulfil their need for entertainment (Blumler & Katz).

Risk Assessment

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This is a risk assessment me and my group filled out ahead of our narrative shoot.

In this sheet we acknowledged all potential risks such as stranger danger, sharp objects and tripping hazards. We then figured out how we would overcome that risk if we do encounter it. This ensures that our shoot runs smoothly and we can easily refer back if we are unsure of what dangers we may face. Both me, my group partner and teacher have signed it so we can always look back at what we agreed to if we have any issues. We also established a starting time and location which we can hold ourselves to and remind us if needed.

Narrative Photo Board & Shot List

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This is a slideshow we made that contains photo inspiration and shot lists for each scene.

This ensures we get a a variety of shots which make our narrative visually engaging and fulfils the viewers need for entertainment (Blumler & Katz). We can easily refer back and tick off shots as we do them which will make sure we have enough footage once we get to editing. We have decided to do two separate shoots on different dates. This is because both of the shots have completely different models and locations so it would just be much easier to split them over a couple days. This also helps us be able to take our time for each shoot and therefore improve the final shots. We found photo inspirations for props, camera angles, shots and just overall vibe. This helps us actually visualise how it will look and what we need to prepare e.g cardboard box, photos & drawings. The friendship bracelets are the most important and will be the most used prop for the video so after some research we now know exactly what we want them to look like. We have research common camera shot/ angle conventions for our genre and have made sure to include some. We need to ensure we are the ‘same but different‘ and use the common conventions of the indie/ alt genre but in a new and unique way that grabs the audiences attention.

Planning our shoot and shots ahead will both ensure we use our time wisely and have a wide variety of shots. We will print out this slide show and bring it to the shoot so we can physically tick each shot we do in order to stay organised. Improving our organisation for the shoot is something we are going to improve this time around as we now know what we can do and how much more footage we should be filming.

Music Video Draft 1 (The Rough Cut)

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This is our first performance draft/ rough cut. We didn’t have enough lip-sync footage to fill the whole song so we have some empty parts.

What works:

  • Editing to the beat
  • Nice setting
  • Good Mise En Scene
  • Entertaining running shots
  • Good costume

What we need to do:

  • Film more lip sync
  • Film full song lip sync in mid, wide and close up
  • Make sure model learns ALL lyrics to the whole song
  • Film a wider variety of angles
  • More interesting hair?

Once we began editing we realised we definitely did not have enough lip-sync to use for the whole song. So we are going to shoot some more performance to ensure we have enough for the final edit. We found the filming process quite difficult as our model is quite camera shy. We tried to combat this by doing small chunks of the lip-sync at a time however that resulted in us not having enough lip-sync. The editing process was much more enjoyable however also time consuming. It took some time to line up the lip-sync to the song audio but our skills improved as we progressed. We shared the workload between our group very equally and it enabled us to get the work done efficiently and both have input in the draft. We tried to edit on the beat throughout the draft as to make it more visually engaging and entertaining. Having a video that draws in the viewers attention will both help with it’s overall success and fulfilling the viewers need for entertainment (Blumler & Katz). We filled in some gaps with shots of our model running, laughing or just candid shots. This gives the video a more personal feel and represents her star image (Dyer) as more ordinary and relatable.

We learnt many new ways of how we can better approach a shoot and editing. We are going to plan ahead this time and have a list of every shot and angle we will film – to ensure we have enough footage so we don’t have to reshoot. Our skills in the editing software (Premiere Pro) have largely increased throughout this draft and we will take these skills into future drafts and eventually the final music video.