Making Music Video

1. Session 2
Making MusicVideos
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2. What does top marks look like?
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4. why top marks?
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6. Why top marks?
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7. Do one idea very well!
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8. Keep to a simple narrative, concept or vignettes!
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9. Control your environment!
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10. ‘the look’
beats
‘the idea’
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11. How do we make it look good?
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12. Get your kit sorted!
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13. D-SLR
• manual focus
• think about depth of field
• set frame rate to 24 (film)
• get online tips on DSLR
cinematography
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14. Grip
• which grip suits your project?
• be innovative
• practice shots and edits!!!
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16. Grip
• which grip suits your project?
• be innovative
• practice shots and edits!!!
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17. Lights
• controlling light is key to
the ‘look’
• lights don’t have to be
expensive
• use grease proof paper
to soften and colour gels
• experiment with shots
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18. Fans/bubble/balloons/
confetti
• fans create movement
• USB mini fan is portable
• test it
• whats going to move?
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19. Sound
• ‘Playback’ is more
important than sound
recording
• record and sound
separately
• don’t get side-tracked
making long intro &
outro!
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20. 10 step
to making your video
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21. 1. Assess you resources
• start with performers!
• technical kit
• locations? or studio
• props/costumes
• timeframe
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22. 2.Warm up
• lip sync - film and edit!
• remake video & ancillary
• photo shoot
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25. 3. Recce
• limit locations
• photos and footage
• floor plan
• access to lights and power
• initial risk assessment
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26. 4. Pitch the whole package
• treatment
• mood-board
• technical
• production solutions
• ancillary tasks (digipack, advert,website)
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27. • NO IDEA? Don’t get stuck
• ITS ALL IN MY HEAD? Just an idea
• GREAT IDEA? Still just an idea
5. Planning beats Ideas !
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28. Plan your way out of trouble!
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29. 6. Plan everything
• storyboard/animatic
• people, places, props, costumes - in advance
• shooting schedule - get everyone’s numbers
• technical prep - batteries, SD cards, grip, lights
• shoot early, not up against deadline
• make sure your performers have rehearsed and
know the words
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33. 7. Shoot
• at least ten times with different set-ups
• make sure you have plenty of cutaways
• shoot extra angles and lighting changes
• don’t forget: lots of close-ups !
• motivate performers
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34. 8. Edit
• synch up all performances first (save)
• paper edit
• get the whole picture rather than tiny detail
• cut and cut again
• upload a rough cut to your blog and get
feedback
• grade & effects work last (plan them)
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35. 9. Evidence whole process
• research (everything from today)
• all pitches
• photos
• behind the scenes
• screen grabs
• all test
• save versions (video & ancillary)
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36. 10. Evaluation
• evaluations starts now
• make it exciting
• ‘directors commentary’ & ‘DVD extras’
• ‘interviews’ & ‘press release/pack’
• ‘directors website’ & ‘showreel’
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37. Case Study
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38. What would you do?
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39. The ‘live brief’
• 4 hours with the artist
• access to studio
• have to pitch to artist
• 2 weeks planning
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40. Group 1
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41. Video 1
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42. How would you have made it better?
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44. Group 2
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45. video 2
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46. How would you have made it better?
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49. TASK
• pitch the video in 1 minute!
• use lyrics and timeline.
• Each school choose idea to pitch!
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52. See you at 1.30pm
ready to pitch!
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