Risk Assessment

I have conducted a risk assessment for our camera shoots to help make us more prepared for anything that could go wrong during the filming process. This means that we will have all the essential pieces of equipment so there is nothing to delay our filming. It also means that it is all written down so I can double check that everything so nothing is left behind or forgotten ruining production time.

Risk	What could happen	Chance of happening	How to stop this
Camera.	May break/ damage the camera.	Not very likely.	Always keep in its case or war safety belt around your neck if it’s out of its case.
Actors.	Could become ill.	Not very likely.	Look for a backup actor who can take them over in very short notice.
Weather.	Could rain whilst filming.	Not likely.	Bring an umbrella to help make sure the camera doesn’t get wet and check the weather so you know whether it’s meant to rain or not.
Walking through the fields.	Could slip over.	Not very likely.	Look where he’s going and make sure he isn’t being filmed anywhere that makes him struggle to balance.
Car.	Could crash	Not very likely.	Wear a seat belts and drive safely.
Camera.	Battery could run out.	Likely.	Bring a spare set of batteries.

Audience Feedback - Survey Monkey

I conducted some research creating a survey through Survey Monkey to help get other people's views on the music industry and the genre I am planning on doing for my main task which is Indie Pop. I have shown the questions that I asked and then shown the results that I was given after this for my questionnaire as shown below. A lot of people have listened to Indie Pop before because from 37 people who answered my questionnaire only 2 people said they haven't heard of Florence + The Machine.
   This shows that the genre I am choosing to create my video on does have a fan base meaning people will enjoy it if it's made properly and to their individual needs. I will be publishing the music video through Web 2.0. (YouTube) which is free to do as longs you have internet, this is good as 3.2 billion people had access to the internet in 2015 and 70% of people who answered my questionnaire watch music videos through their phone or laptop which means this is the best way to broadcast the music video as I can also share it on my Facebook and other social media networks.

Andrew Johnson Filming tips

This man is called Andrew Johnson who came into school and held an hour lesson out of his own spare time to help teach us more about filming and editing. He has been in the filming industry for 20 years and has traveled the world filming in a variety of different places which is why he was such an asset to listen to and ask questions to about filming as he has such a wide and professional knowledge about cameras and filming. He's mainly worked for the BBC and taught me a lot, mainly about the equipment which has helped Olly and I for our music video as we now have a better insight about camera's and how to use them to our advantage when we film our music video. 

Audience Feedback - Rough Cut Video

Last week Olly and I showed our rough cut of our music video to our Media teachers as well as 15-20 Media students at AS and A2. We had a lot of great feedback about how well our music video looks at the moment for the amount of the video that has been filmed and edited. Some of the improvements that we were asked to make on the video include to be:

• New font for title, one that links more to an indie genre.
• Mise-en-scene, linking more to indie genre as well as more emotions to the main story line.

Positive feedback given from the music video:

• A good story line alongside the music video, it works well with what we're trying to achieve.
• The dog is well suited to it's role of the video and fits in.
• There is some good shots and editing from what has been made of the video so far. 

Overall  we're happy with the feedback that we have been given because we haven't completed the music video yet which shows us that the work we have done for the video so far is on track and could be completed to a good standard if we keep up to date with the work and get enough camera shots. 

Animatic Storyboard

Here is a storyboard that I created with Olly for our main task, the song we have chosen is called 'The Fray - How To Save A Life being set around an Indie Pop genre. we've used post it notes and stuck them to an A3 piece of paper giving it a better structure and if we want to change a frame we can easily do this by using a new post it note. This allows us to know exactly what part of the music video each shot will be edited into so it's a quicker process giving us more time to do filming as well as knowing what frames we need to film when we go to each location. We've said how long we plan each frame to be so the video is 3 minutes long, I know this should be accurate because we did this for our Preliminary task and that was done effectively.

Audience Feedback - Briefing

Here is a photo of Olly (My partner) and I as we give a short briefing to a class of students from the year below about what our A2 media music video is based on and what we are trying to achieve. They all liked the idea of our music video which we have set out to create and all of the students we asked apart from one said they liked the Indie Pop genre when we explained it was artists like Florence + The Machine and Ellie Goulding. This meant that we weren't given much creative criticism to add more to the planning process of the music video.

Lighting Workshop

Here is a range of different photos that I took on my phone and asked other people to take of me for my A2 lighting workshop that I was taught in my A2 class as well as there being an As media class to help show us all the importance of lighting being used within filming when done professionally. They showed us a huge range of different lighting techniques which is why I have added a slideshare of images showing different lighting features. One of my favorite effect that I was shown was a 'reflector' because it is a very basic method of adding more light to a certain position (normally someone's face) within a dark scene to help capture the attention of that specific part of the image adding more depth and meaning so the audience knows exactly what they should be looking towards.