Equipment...

Risk Assessment of Filming Locations...

Shown below is a risk assessment of each of our filming locations which I created. As the director of the group, I will make sure that the whole group have read and understood the risk assessment before we go out to film to make sure we are all covered just in case anything did happen that would be a risk to us.

Final Storyboard...

Show below is a powerpoint which features the final storyboard for our music video which we produced as a group:

Music Video Storyboard from Joshua East

The powerpoint shows my final storyboard, which consists of a frame by frame image of the shot and camera instructions.

The length of each shot is shown in seconds (approx) On the draft storyboard each shot was 5 seconds in length, however when we watched some footage which 5 second shots we realsied that it felt quite long in length. This made us change the shot duration to roughly 3.5 seconds per frame.

The camera instructions are including alongside each frame, these may change as we begin filming but at the moment it cleary shows what we plan to do for each shot. 

Casting...

In our music video we have decided that we are only going to use 2 predominant characters. A male - which the narrative will be taken from his perspective and a female who is his partner.

We have had a few changes to our initial casting ideas since we originally discussed our cast. This is due to different people being available at different times. This meant that we needed to reconsider who would feature in our music video production.

The male character was originally going to be played by Casey Deeks but due to his availability not suiting what we needed we have discussed as a group that the male protagonist in our music video will be played by Alex Newbold. (Alex is a member in our group - therefore he will easily be available for when we need to film.)

Name: Alex Newbold

Age: 17

From: Bridgend 

Availability: Flexible - can do most days.

The female character in our music video was originally going to be played by Rosie Pope, however, as Rosie attends a school in a different area from where we are it would have meant that organising filming schedules and days to film would've been rather challenging. Therefore, we had a bit of struggle casting a female as we wanted to ask someone who was highly available for filming, this would mean that we wouldn't come across much problems when it came to filming. We finally decided that Jade Evans, a pupil who attends our school who also studies Media but is in year 12, would be featured as the female in our film.

Name: Jade Evans

Age: 16

From: Pencoed

Availability: Flexible - can do most days apart from Thursdays

Group Roles...

Director - Josh East

I will be the director of our music video production. I will have the responsibility of taking charge of what we are filming and how we are filming it. I will also be faced with the responsibility of making sure the actors are present and they know what they need to do in each shot. I have had experience directing people in the past, therefore, I am confident that I will be able to carry out this role effectively. I also enjoying the role of a director as I can have quite a clear idea of how I would like things to work out and how they can work at the time with the people I am working with. 

Editor & Equipment Manager - Oliver Bontempo

Oliver has excellent editing skills as it is something that he is very interested in. He has had lots of experience editing in the past with being in charge of editing his AS Level, Thriller opening last year. Ollie often has a very clear vision for how he wants the final product to look and he knows exactly how it will be edited together. This year Oliver is especially interested in editing as we plan to have the lyrics edited into our music video, therefore, this is a challenge which he is yet to experience so editing our music video will equip him with further advanced editing skills. 

Cinematographer & Co-Equipment Manager - Rhys Jones

Rhys will take control of equipment along with ollie but he will also be the cinematographer. Rhys has a very clear idea of how he would like shots to look like and how we will each other specific shots. Within our music video production, we are using his drone which has given us the opportunity to be able to get some really interesting shots, patricianly the high angle pans over the cliffs and sea. 

Producer & Actor - Alex Newbold

Alex will be the actor in our music video along with being the producer. similar to us all, Alex also has a very clear idea of where he would like the narrative of our music video to go. He also didn't mind being the actor in it either. This has meant that filming can commence much easier as our main character in the music video is already in our group, it is only the female character we will need to schedule carefully for as she is not in our media group/class. 

Location,Location,Location...

After brainstorming ideas for our theme we made a list of locations which we wanted to visit to see where would be most suitable to film our music video.

Loactions so far: 

• Southerndown
• Ogmore-By-Sea 
• Porthcawl (pier & Seafront) 
• Ollie's House

Southerndown

Southerndown was one of the first locations we went to. Immediately, we liked this location.

There was a very good variety of heights we could reach at this location as we could stay on the rocks, as shown in the pictures, where we could be very close to the sea. We could also climb the cliff where we could gain different heights to gather a variety of shots.

We visited Southerndown when it was raining and rather windy, we initially thought that this would have a negative impact on what we would be able to achieve during our time here, however, the weather actually worked quite well for the purpose of the shots.

We were still able to climb the cliff despite the weather and we managed to get some high angle shots from looking off the cliff.

This location appealed to us all because there was a range of variety here which we liked. Each cliff was different and had various levels and ledges which meant that we could gather a variety of angles to make our shots more interesting. This area is also rather secluded, therefore, we would not have the risk of people getting in our shots, this was a massive benefit about this location to us.

One major thing we would have to consider with this location is the time of day in which we film here. As there are no street lights the area can get very dark, especially now as the darker nights draw in it can easily be dark by half past four in the afternoon. This means that we will have to carefully plan when we decide to film here. We already think that the majority of our shots will be filmed at this location, therefore, we can now think about this location and the time of day when we create our filming schedule.

Porthcawl

Porthcawl is an area which my whole group are familiar with. It is a popular seaside resort which is located about 20 minutes from where we all live. We visited Porthcawl the same day as the previous location, therefore, it had just stopped raining and was rather overcast. However, similarly to the previous location the weather conditions actually enhanced our location shots.

Porthcawl has the benefit of having both a seafront with a wall which we can stand/sit on to gain height and a pier which is what can be seen in the first shot for this location. These two areas to film provide us with a variety of shots within one location, therefore, this is a major positive for this location. However, as mentioned Porthcawl does get very popular as it is a tourist, seaside location. This is what we would have to consider if/when we choose to film here. The weather put people off visiting on the day we came here hence why the shots look very empty with no people in the background.

The shot that is alongside this writing is a P.O.V shot from Ollie's perspective, looking over the wall. We had the thought of having a slow P.O.V pan over this wall from this shot as we thought it would be really effective.

There is a long walk way which goes from the pier along the seafront in Porthcawl (this is what can be seen in the photo alongside) When we walked across we discussed that we could use this area in our music video but we were unsure how and what we would shoot, therefore, we decided that we would take a picture of the location as discuss it once we had visited all the locations which we were interested in.

Ogmore-by-Sea

The next location we visited was Ogmore-by-Sea. This location is shown through the shots on the left. This is a location we are all very familiar with as it is our closest beach/seafront that we can visit.

Ogmore-by-Sea does get rather popular in the summer, however, in the winter the are many areas that are quite secluded, this appealed to us as our filming would take place over the next few weeks.

This location is also very beneficial to us as there are many ways in which we can get a variety of shots here. There are lots of levels, cliffs and rock areas where we can access to capture a variety of angles. We decided that this would work quite well as we could almost save time, capturing a variety of shots in one location; we would not have to travel around which would take up time.

One negative aspect about this location is that it is rather windy. The area is very open to the sea and there are no cliffs or walls which act as a wind break. This means that we would have to take extra care when we film here to ensure that none of our equipment gets damaged, particularly Rhys' drone which we are planning to use, as the wind would take it from our control if it was too strong.



This is a location where we would predominately use the drone as the flat land above the cliffs allows us to easily control the drone for take offs and landings. It is also easy to access the sea from this location in comparison to the other loactions. In southerdown there was quite a risk climbling the cliff just incase one of us slip or fall. At Ogmore there is a safe path which we can use to gain height and climb the cliff, therefore, it is much safer for us to film here.

Shooting Schedule...

Starting to Storyboard...

Shown below is an example of the storyboard we have started for our music video:

We have started to piece together ideas for how we want our video to be put together and what shots we want to use in what locations. Initially, as a group, we have struggled slightly with this as we wanted to experiment more with shots and locations before making any definite plans. 

We will be producing a final storyboard once we have a clearer idea of what we would like our music video to include. 

A full draft storyboard is shown below:

We are expecting our storyboard to change as we conduct more research and plan it over time but at the moment, the above is what we are going with to give us an outline of our music video.