Our location recce to Brighton went very well, we were able to create a two minute music video from our footage, and we gained a lot of practical knowledge for our final piece.
-In terms of negatives, I learned that we need to have a fairly detailed plan for our final piece as while we tried to create a narrative, the narrative arc was not very clear.
-As well as this, preparation of props such as the drawings would have been beneficial as I had to draw them while I was there, wasting time.
-The main limiting factor we came across was time, since we only had a few hours to shoot the video, and our batteries had very little charge, however I think this would have been solved almost totally by a simple location recce beforehand.
-Despite all this I really liked the use of an outdoor location, because of the empty sea and the fame of the location we did not need to worry about getting people in shot as they added to the ambience.
-Also it was fun to play with different camera movements, as in a music video it is acceptable for them to be more unusual and artistic.
-We also decided to experiment with montage in this video, I think that while it did in a way detract from the narrative, it was very useful to have footage that could fill any gaps in the film and they did add to the overall sense of place.
-I thought the performance elements were quite strong and helped link the video to the lyrics, however there probably needs to be more emotion to make it truly realistic
In conclusion I learned that preparation was very important for any narrative and even performance based music video as long as there is some room for improvisation. Not having done a recce as well as not having enough batteries limited us severely but these are easily solved. In terms of technical ability we had some very useful practice with lip-syncing, use of the track and other aspects we would like to carry over to our final piece.
Good comment Dan, I am glad that you made the most of this experience.
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