Construction

Role Allocation
For our music video I worked in a team of two, (including myself) but I came up with the choice of song and the idea/storyboard. My partner did some of the filming while I did the majority of it (because of timings) and we both did the editing of the music video.

Casting
For the casting of our music video we only needed one character to perform in the video, so it was quite simple in terms of numbers. I then arranged a friend to act in the video as she fitted the criteria for what I was looking for. As she was able to portray the characters feelings of sadness and misery. Our character was a female aged 17 who was Caucasian.

Filming
For the location of the music video we filmed in West Brom at my friends house in her bedroom, and outside so their was more then one location. We produced a production schedule which features the location, dates, props and scene descriptions so there wasn't any confusion. We also created a logging and capturing sheet so that it would be easier when capturing the footage on the computers.

Problems did arise when filming as not everyone was freely available, we then had to abandon our original idea due to cast not turning up, this presented us with our second idea for our music video. So we had problem meeting up and setting dates. Our location was also very far away from both me and my partner so getting to and from West Brom took a lot of time, which meant the majority of the day was dedicated to travelling. This meant that filming was split into several days.


Editing
For the editing process I learned how to capture footage from the Mini DV camera and put it onto the computer, I then learnt how to use Final-Cut-Pro. As I did the majority of the editing I learnt numerous skills such as piecing a sequence together by cutting down shots, I learnt how to superimpose shots by layering the shots on top of each other and by changing the opacity, I learnt how to crop different shots by having four separate shots on one screen, I also learnt how to use colour corrector, tint, emboss ect.

The editing Process went well as I knew what I wanted and was able to edit my music video without difficulty.

Props
These were the props that we used in the music video;

• Photo frame
• Photo of character
• Phone
• Headphones
• Bedroom