This document provides tips for creating a music video project, including: - Planning everything in advance such as storyboarding, scheduling people and locations, and ensuring performers are prepared. - Knowing your equipment like testing cameras, having the necessary gear like tripods, and experimenting with editing software in advance. - Shooting multiple takes of performances from different angles and lighting, as well as close-ups and cutaway shots. - Editing by first syncing performances, then focusing on the overall piece before adding effects. Getting feedback on a rough cut. - Looking at other student examples online for additional guidance.

1. Top Tips

2. The Task
• Package: album (digipack), website or advert,
music video
• 100 marks: research and planning 20, video 40,
digipack 10, website 10, evaluation 20

3. Plan for everything
• Storyboard- you can always shoot extra
• Plan people, places, props, costumes
• Get everyone’s mobile numbers
• Aim to shoot it early, not up against deadline
• Make sure your performers have rehearsed and
know the words

4. MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE TASK
Using the TIMELINE SHEETS, breakdown your MUSIC TRACK into verses, chorus, instrumental parts, key
phrases and sounds - (USE COLOURS to help differentiate the parts).
Once you have deconstructed the track - start to annotate the timeline explaining
which part of the song is accompanied by what type of visuals.

5. know your equipment
• Do test shots to try out effects
• Check any quirks of the camera
• Make sure you have tripod (and ‘shoe’)
• Is the disk loaded ?
• experiment with Final Cut before the main thing
• Have you got the music and an audible source?

6. the shoot
• Shoot the performance at least ten times with different
set-ups
• Make sure you have plenty of cutaways
• Experiment with extra angles and lighting changes
• Don’t forget: lots of close-ups !
• Enthuse your performers- they must give it plenty!
• Shoot more than you think you will need

7. the edit
• Synch up performances first
• Get the whole picture rather than tiny detail
• Cut and cut again
• Aim for a dynamic piece of work
• Do any effects work last
• Upload a rough cut to your blog and get
feedback

8. look elsewhere for tips
• petesmediablog
• Cranford school wix
• Latymer school websites, digipacks and videos
• Hurtwood media
• Islington Sixth Form

9. http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2012_11_01_archive.html
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10. http://cranfordmedia.wix.com/mod20
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11. http://www.latymermediamusicvideo.blogspot.co.uk/
http://latymermusicvideo2013group2.blogspot.co.uk/
http://latymermusicvideo2013group3.blogspot.co.uk/

12. http://www.youtube.com/user/hurtwoodhousemedia

13. http://candipop12.blogspot.co.uk/

14. Choosing your track
• AVOID really famous artist or song
• Think about SUB-GENRE
• STRONG Visual idea/Concept
• Aim for 3 minutes or just under
• Needs LYRICS for Performance
• LISTEN TO ADVICE!!!!

15. finished student videos