Production process

Filming 

One of the problems I wanted to take care of early on was making sure that I had enough battery power to last all day long. To ensure that this would happen, I decided to invest in a second battery so that if one did run out I could still carry on filming. This came in very useful as when the battery did run out which I predicted, I had the back up meaning the filming day wasn't interrupted. 

While filming I ran into a couple of problems one being the weather, on the day that I had originally planned to film, the weather forecast predicted heavy rain. I tried to reschedule the date but the actors weren't free any other time so I figured I would risk it. Luckily the weather forecast was wrong and it didn't rain on the first filming date. On the second filming date the weather was also fine the lighting was good as the sun was out and since I was relying on natural  light this was perfect to shoot in. All together there weren't any problems when filming my music video, the actors were great and appeared very natural on camera which was what I wanted as I wanted the music video to appear real because that way the target audience can relate to the realism aspect. 

Editing

I knew from the start that one of my key focus' when editing was going to be editing to the beat. To make sure I had some practice before the real thing I edited a small segment of the song Open Season by Josef Salvat to some of my test footage to make sure I would know what I was doing when it came to editing my real piece. 

Another aspect I am focusing on when editing is colour correction, since the narrative I am portraying is supposed to appear real to the audience, I am going to colour grade to suit this theme as this will once again add to the realism and  the honesty of my piece and will help to set the tone. 

From looking at other music videos within the same genre as mine (alternative/indie rock), I have decided to add titles to my music video. To begin with I was going to have two titles one being the title of the song and the other being directed by, however I don't think the directed by title is necessary so I decided to scrap that idea.

In final cut, there are a number of edits already there to chose from, they are great but some are quite extreme and I don't think that they fit with my piece due to the themes I am portraying.