Next Steps

Now that the examination revision has finished, we can focus solely on our coursework portfolio. Reviewing what we have done so far, we have decided that we need to make a few improvements to our variety of things.

 First of these things is our shot quality, as there are some shots that need to be improved to fit in naturally with the rest of the video, as well as sync up with the music track. There also needs to be more variety, which has been caused by both lack of shots planned and some shots going missing while uploading to the computer. To combat this, we plan to film a variety of new shots, including a close up of the bassist, to help provide a whole rotation of the band, as well as effective and high quality shots of all the band members close up with their instruments. We also plan to film a extreme close up of birth the Guitar and Bass guitar, to show the band playing them, mainly for the intro of the music video. This will help provide variety to the video, and is also a common convention in the punk rock genre, as the artists play their own instruments, allowing themselves to show off their playing to their fans.

We have also planned where and when to fit narrative shots into our music video, where the performance shots are weakest, but this may have to change when we acquire our new performance shots.

After this is done, we can progress forward to film and mould our narrative shots. Before we start this operation, we should research into similar music videos, to see the different ways we can tell the story, and how we can mix in it with our performance shots, using special effects. We will then have to storyboard our ideas out to provide an effective plan, to make sure the same mistake doesn't happen, and we get effective shots first time. The storyboard should include our ideas, what shot types we can use, and what locations we can film in. Providing a variety of opportunities to film will help us film faster and filming in more locations will help us provide the most effective shots.

While this is happening, during times when we are unable to film, we can focus on our Ancillary tasks. We have to create both a music CD and a poster promoting the single. This will be the way our track gets attention, and therefore will have to have a clear message about what genre and style it is, while attracting the target audience to our track. This again will require research into other bands methods, to see what ideas we can use and mix up. We can then perform several drafts and show it to people, and see if they can tell us what genre they think the track is, and how effective is the poster in attracting interest. We can then use this to improve and make a final draft. We can then do the same for the CD track.

In summary, over th next few months, we have to complete the following

1) Re-shoot some performance shots
2) Research into our narrative shots
3) Storyboard our Narrative ideas and filming locations
4) film the narrative shots
5) Research ideas for poster and music cd
6) plan ideas for poster and music cd
7) Make drafts and show them to fellow students for feedback
8) Re-draft and finish final poster.