Top Tips

On Friday the 2nd of October 2015 Pete Fraser and Jake Wynne visited our school and gave a talk on tip and experiences in the music video industry. I found this very useful as Pete went into detail about what we needed blog wise to get a good grade, he spoke about all the things we should do in preparation for final draft and afterwards. Jake also gave us feedback on our initial ideas.
Pete Fraser's tips included:
Plan for everything
- Storyboard (even if you shoot extra scenes after)
- Plan who, what, where, when and how (make sure that everyone is organised and has everything you need)
- Aim to shoot early so that you can always shoot more and its not up against the deadline.
- Make sure that everyone has rehearsed everything (performers and crew)
Know your equipment
- Do test shots so that you can test the effects that you are going to use
- Check any quirks of the camera
- Make sure that you have a tripod and a shoe
- Make sure that you will have enough memory if not bring back up cards
- Experiment with editing before you do your final
- Make sure that you have an audible source of the song so that not only the performer can hear it but the camera as well.
The shoot
- Shoot the performance at least ten times with different set-ups
- Make sure that you have plenty of cutaways
- Experiment with extra angles and light changes
- Dont forget: lots of close ups!
- Enthuse your performers - they must give it plenty!
- Shoot more than you think you will need.
The edit
- Sync up the performance first
- Get the whole picture rather than tiny detail
- Cut cut and cut again
- Aim for a dramatic piece of work
- Do any effects work last
- Upload a rough cut to your blog and get feedback
The blog
- Evidence of whole journey
- Research, planning, construction of all 3 products
- Evaluation
- Finished products
Good house keeping
- Tidy desktop
- Storage of footage
- Labeling files
- Tidy blog
Evidence
- Real music videos
- Real music videos (of your genre)
- Any visuals that have influenced you (films, TV, adverts, music videos, photos)
- Steal o matic
- Costume photos, location photos, test shots.
- Real album covers
- Real band websites
- Early exercises designing album covers
- Changes to your design-screengrabs
- Show how it is a 'package'
- Student music videos, digipacks and websites with comments
- Jake's videos and tips from today
- Photos and clips from today
- Storyboard and animatic of your video plan.
- Feedback from your peers
- Rough cuts of your video
- Screengrabs of your edit in progress
- 'Behind the scenes'
- Regular commentary on what you are doing
When to do digipack 
- In parallel, NOT at the end!
- Taking photos for later use
- Having lots of extra ideas
- Can do more than one design within the group

Jakes tips:
- Emphasising the 'performance bed' which means you have a layer of a few performances of the band/artist singing the whole song so that you can then add all the other stuff on top but at least you're covered and get an idea of the whole structure.
- The website where you can make music videos for peoplehttp://www.radarmusicvideos.com/home/about-us
- Dynamism and not giving away all your tricks early on, build slowly and make everyone want to watch more.