The document outlines the process of creating a music video for a class project. It discusses researching music videos to understand conventions. The student chose to make a video for "Sorrow" by The National after analyzing lyrics. Planning included coming up with an idea of flashbacks to the subject's past. Resources used were internet research and camera equipment. Areas for improvement included getting more footage, characters, and better shot linking. Overall, the student felt they improved filming and editing skills through the project.

2. What was your project brief?
• Our project brief was to create a short film
(music video, short film, documentary) and
plan the development and to edit footage and
to have a complete product.
• For the project I chose to create a music video
as it seemed the most suitable one to create.
• We could chose any song for the music video
at this stage I didn’t know what one I was
going to use.

3. Planning and Research?
• After deciding what I was going to create for
the project the next step was to start planning
and do research for the project.
• The research included looking to what are
music videos, why were they first made, what
the main aspects of them are etc.
• From this I learned such things as three act
structure etc.

4. Research
• The research included looking in to music videos and
finding out the main conventions of them and what
you expect to be in them.
• Whilst doing the research I looked at the most
expensive music videos ever created, to compare them
to lower budgeted ones to see the differences.
• I looked at a couple of websites which had there top 10
music videos of all-time.
• As from this I was able to look the music videos from
there list and see why they thought was so good about
them

5. Research
• A important part of the research was looking
at examples of music videos and doing
technical analysis of some of them.
• In the research I done technical analysis on
songs by The Kooks and Arctic Monkeys, this
because at this stage in the project I was going
to use a song from one of The Kooks or Arctic
Monkeys.

6. Research – What song to use?
• After speaking to my teacher I decided to use
a different type of song for the music video.
• As the songs I was going to use weren’t the
most interesting, which I mean by the lyrics
and the concept of the songs.
• I chose to use a song by The National called
Sorrow, it’s a very different to the songs I have
going to use.

7. Lyric Analysis
• By doing a lyric analysis for the song I could
break the song up in to different sections.
• The song could be about a few different things
such as a break up, a person remembering
there past etc. The lyrics express different
types of emotions in them.
• An example is “Sorrow the put me on the pills.
It's in my honey it's in my milk.”
• The pills referring to drugs or medicine they
didn’t need.

8. The idea
• My idea for the music video was to try and
relate it the lyrics in the song.
• Which I mean a person in the music video
keeps seeing there past memories. E.g. by
seeing objects from there childhood.
• I did come up with other ideas but his
seemed the best one to use at the time.
• I also had to choose suitable locations to film
the music video.

9. How well did you manage your project?
• I think I managed my project reasonable well,
there were a couple of occasions were I could
have managed it a bit better.
• Trying to find someone to be in the music video I
found was very hard, I asked many people and
could find anyone who wanted to be in the music
video.
• If I was a bit quicker with the planning and
research I could have filmed earlier which could
possibly have meant I would have finished the
music video earlier than I did.

10. What resources did I use?
• The internet was my main resources using
websites like Youtube for looking at examples
of music videos this was for the research and
planning.
• I also used the internet to research about
music videos and for the lyric analysis.
• Other resources were the HD camera I used to
film the footage for the music video.

11. Develop and realise?
• The idea for the music did change a few times
from the early stages of the project to even
when I was filming the last few shots for the
music video.
• But by going to film more footage when I done
the first edited helped massively.
• This was because the first edited didn’t look
like a music video and it needed more footage
and wasn’t suited to the original idea of the
music video.

12. Narrative
• The narrative of the music video was about a
person who is walking through a location from
his past, where he keeps seeing flashbacks of
his past childhood.
• By seeing objects/items from his childhood
and different memories.
• I came up with narrative for the music video
to try and relate it to the song.

13. Review your project?
• I thought some of the shots were filmed quite well
compared to previous time when I’ve filmed and they
haven’t that successful.
• The lack of characters/people in the project is a weakness
as normally in music videos you would see more
people/characters than just the one in my project.
• There were many thins I could improve on such as more
footage as the music video wasn’t the longest only just over
three minutes long.
• Another improvement could have more of a range of
different types of shots as this would have made it look
more a real music video.

14. Areas For Improvement
• I mentioned in the previously slide some areas for
improvement for the music video if I made the
music video again.
• Another improvement could be using another
location which would have meant I had used
three very different locations in the music video.
• One of improvement could have been trying to
get the shots to link in with one another.
• As in the music video they didn’t link in that well
which in music videos are normally do.

15. • Whilst making the music video I think I have
improved filming and editing because previously I
wasn’t that good at either of them.