Research and Planning

 One of the very first things we did when starting to plan our music video was to divide up all planning tasks between us, everyone had their own individual job, wiether it was storyboarding, or writing the shot list, or casting the video etc. I personally helped with the storyboarding, which because it was the biggest job, had 3 of us working on it. Counting the number of shots, writing down what each individual shot was, and then putting all the shots in a storyboard took a lot of our planning time, but it was defiantly worth it. When it came to filming, we knew exactly how many shots we needed to film, and from each angle they needed to be taken from.

 We also had to create a risk assessment, and assign someone to be in charge of looking out for risks on the day of filming, to prevent any health and safety dangers.

We created a shot list, and put all the shots into categories according to when they would to be filmed to help us make sure we filmed as quickly and as efficiently as possible. This shot list was a great help, and after we had filmed each shot we ticked it off on the list, to keep track of what had to filmed and what hadn't.

It would have helped to plan who's computer all the clips were going to be loaded onto, and choose on person to be responsible for loading the clips at the end of each filming session, because when it came to editing, we couldn't find the shots from the very first day of filming. We then had to re shoot those particular shots, wasting time. 

In the A2 year I expect to have to create; a storyboard, a prop list, a cast list, a shooting script, a health and safety risk assessment, a schedule stating where and when everything it going to happen, and a shot list.