When it comes to constructing a music video, a lot of time is put into making a video to ensure that it will be as good as it can possibly be. The majority of music video sets will include a wide range of different people that all have a specific job to ensure that the music video is going to be as perfect as it can be. As this is my music video, for my own A level, I will mostly be doing everything myself - however, if it comes to it and I need some assistance with some things then I could, for example, have people help me with filming if I may need more than one person to do something at once or I can ask for advice from others to ensure that my music video is the best it can possibly be. Even though I know I won't have a massive group of people behind me, helping create my video, I still decided to do some research and find out what type of people are involved in the creation of a music video and by doing this it will allow me to understand and plan out what things I will do because I will essentially be playing all of the roles. Here is a list I have created of the different jobs roles that are usually seen pre and post-production:
By looking at this list you can see that there are an array of different people that are included when creating a music video and as I previously said, I will not have all of these different people as I will be doing all of this myself - however, by knowing about all the different roles that are associated within a music video has helped me because it allows me to know if I am doing everything that everyone else would be doing in a professional and high end music video. The amount of people that are included in a video usually depends on what is occurring in the music video. For example, if the video was just going to be someone standing in a room then you wouldn't need choreographers or stunt performers and probably wouldn't need a lot of people on set either because the production will not be as big as others and won't need a lot of people to be involved. Nonetheless, some roles like cameramen, producers and actors/actresses are essential as they are what are needed to create the video. Regardless, all of the roles are important and will have a big part in the creation of a music video. I have the impression that making a production with a range of other people would be very interesting and enjoyable - however, for now I will be doing the mass bulk of everything on my own which will allow me to see what I am capable of doing when it comes to creating a music video.
Since I am making a music video I decided to watch some videos on how people actually create music videos and what tips they provide to people like me who are creating a music video for the first time and what I can do to make it look the best it can look. I feel as if I am at an advantage as I did create two short music videos clips over the summer which allowed me to understand this process a bit more as I knew how storyboarding would work, what my organisation skills need to be like and also what clothes and props will need to be used. Nonetheless, I have still watched a few different videos and two of those videos I have watched are shown below:
After watching these videos I feel as if I have gained a lot of knowledge and have a better understanding on how to make my video look the way I want it to look. There are a range of features in these videos like lighting and equipment which I already knew was essential to make a good music video, but there were features like different lens effects on the camera which I didn't previosuly know about and which I will use when I begin creating my music video. From the two videos I have shown above you are able to see that the majority of the work goes into the post-production - however, the filming stage is extremely important as this is what the audience will see, but when you are editing the video you can make it look the way you want it to look to appeal to the audience in the correct way. I personally enjoyed watching these videos because I am looking at working with cameras and media production in general at higher education and I find that knowing all these different techniques is very interesting as something so simple can be made into something that looks very complex when in facts it's not. I am going to use the tips from these videos and hopefully create a professional looking, interesting and appealing music video for my target audience which will hopefully also meet a larger mass audience.
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