Research and planning: My facebook group

This is a facebook group we have made so that we can post our production work on there and have people give us some feedback on it and help us with any improvements needed.

Research and planning: My pitch

This is my pitch which introduces and gives you an idea of how I want my music video and roughly the essentials that I need to create it such as the audience profile, other existing videos which have similar features.

Final digipack and advert

Research and planning: Costumes and Props

When considering costumes and props you have take into account if it will fit in with your genre and what kind of representation for example for a rap video generally has a lot of black womem being shown in a sexual nature. Seeing as our genre is indie we are going to have some key features and costumes, firstly we are going to need all the actors to wear skinny jeans and wear jackets as shown in this table below...

Costume/Prop item	Source	Potential cost	Person in charge
Skinny Jeans	From home	Nothing	Alex
Indie style jackets	From home	Nothing	Chris
Cigarettes	From shop or home	£3	Abby

As our video genre is going to be indie the video will be a bit different to everyday music videos and will have different conventions, we most likely wont have any props as our video will mostly be filmed in the woods so will be very simplistic and our shots will be based around the scenary, the video below is of 'the kooks naive' this is kind of similar to how we want our video and as you noticed its very simplistic and the costumes are how we want ours with barely any props..

Research and planning: Locations + health and safety

When considering the location of our music video, we had to take in to consideration several different aspects. Firstly, the weather conditions are fairly unpredictable at the moment, with lots of snow often followed by rain. We had to think about whether it would be sensible to film outside at the time of year we are hoping to, and if we did want to, the whereabouts of this. At college, we have a large wooded area which appears to be the perfect place to film because there is a lot of room and it is easily accessible to all performers/cast members and filming crew. We also had to take into consideration the risk aspect of filming in the woods because we had to think about what could happen. We analysed the situation and decided that there was little risk when in the woods, except for falling over or getting wet with rain. We have thought about the weather and decided the video would be fine to film in most weather conditions and are not worried about wind or rain or snow or sunshine.. As you can see by the picture below the surroundings are ideal for us to work in as it fits in with the genre we are aiming for and gives off an indie feel ...

Whenever doing any work we have to think about the health and safety issues and complete a risk assesment to assess any dangers that we may come across and figure out how we can do our best to prevent anything from going wrong. Belwo is a risk assesment i have filled in for working outdoors, as you can see there are not too many hazards but it is still essential for our well being that we do this...

Potential Danger	Potential outcomes	Actions to avoid potential outcomes	Further comments
Falling down a ditch in the woods	Getting seriously hurt	Walk on the paths rather than near the ditch	always be careful when travelling
Dropping college equipment	Breaking the college equipment	Always keep the equipment safe	Keep the equipment in the hands of someone responsible
Weather conditions	Falling over/breaking equipment	Only work in suitable weather conditions	Don’t work in rain, snow etc.
Wonky paving	Seriously harming you e.g. broken bones.	Make sure the paving is inline and not to take the route if it is not

Research and planning: Peformance and casting

These are the performers that will be featured in our production work, all of our intended actors are all suitable as they all live relatively close too each other and go to the same college therefore we will be able to meet up and plan our work together. We have not left anything to chance as we have already ditched some other actors that we were going too use as they were unreliable and unwilling to work in the environment we wanted. We will all hold regular meetings to discuss how we are going to go about doing the production work and different ideas to take into account.

Research and planning: Time management

When creating practical production work in media it is essential that you take into account your time management. This is a rough plan of my time management and how i am going to go about doing my production work, obviously this is only rough so i will be able to add on to it once i have booked up the camera and know exactly when and where i am going to be able to do my shots.