L03, Task 4

The role I played during the post production stage:

During the post-production stage of a music video titled Runcee - Make Room, that I edited with a group, I used various editing skills to help give my final product a high quality aesthetic for the audience as I did the majority of the editing.

Contribution to our music video:

We edited the music video as a group. The role I played was doing the majority of the cutting as well as changing opacity on certain effects to give the video a trippy look aesthetic. I also added in the title and had to keyframe it to make it move in to to the clips. I also changed the colour of some of the clips as the intro clip has a slight red silhouette to make our overall production look unique. I also did some jump cuts to make our overall video fast paces, to match the hip-hop genre and the speed of the beat.

Treatment for Runcee - Make Room, music video

The Brief

We've produced a music video that promotes Runcee. The purpose of a treatment is to show the client awareness that we know what we have been assigned in order to create a music video that is designed for our target audience. In addition to this we are using the treatment in order to indicate that our  music video idea has structure in order to gain more funding from the client.

Target Audience

We will be producing a music video in the style of an independent warp style music video.

The target audience for this music video we're going to produce will be aimed at people from the ages of 18  within the ABC1 category on the demographic and scale. The reason we chose this target audience is because some of the lyrical content within this song is considered explicit, therefore inappropriate for younger viewers, however younger viewers are likely to watch it too.

Segment synopsis and how it relates to the brief 

This music video will be a performance video, this is due to the fact that we believe it would be easier to present the music video in this style. This is because I believe a performance video can truly capture the environment and the background of the artist, therefore relating to the genre of music being preformed.

Contingencies

In case something was to go wrong I have considered a few other artists that would gladly offer me their music to use for the music video, but first I would need to gain their written permission before I could use their audio.

If my actors are unable to attend a shoot, or have decided that they don't want to be in the video anymore I must first ensure that I have got them to sign a release form. The release form makes it less stressful for the production team by not having them find a new audio, just a new actor.

I must also ensure that I have a few back up actors, this will help if any of the actors decide to opt out of the music video.

 In case a location is deemed as not suitable based on environmental factors. I think it is smart if we consider different locations if our desired location is not suitable. This is because it doesn't limit us in terms of when it comes to filming.

Key Milestones

• All the planning will be done by the 5th of February
• Filming will start the 8th of February
• Editing will be the 18th of March
• Launch date will be the 22nd of March 

Equipment

The equipment we will be needing to make our music video a success will be:

• 1X Canon 650D
• Tripod
• Costumes the model is wearing, this will relate to the genre of the music because grime is seen as street type music so street clothes would seem suitable for this music video.

Locations

Millhouses Park
Matilda Street

Models/actor

Shayi Aluwoade will be peforming in the place of Runcee, due to the fact that Charles is currently unavailable for the shoot at this current moment in time. Shayi will be pretending to be Runcee for this video.

Health And Safety Consideration

-Weather conditions 

Slippery surfaces and paths could be hazardous when preforming and could result to

the artist falling over whilst preforming.

-Camera damages

we must wear the correct footware when using the cameras in order to reduce the risk of falling with it. We must also wear the camera strap in order to firmly secure the camera.

For each location we much produce: 

A location recce form. This is a form informing us on if the chosen location is suitable for the shoot.

We need photographic evidence of what the location looks like.

And we also need to produce a Risk Assessment.

Legal, Ethical, Scheduling and Certification 

We need to gain permission from Runcee in order to use his audio for the music video. If we do not seek permission from the artist be are breaking the copyright law and we could end up getting prosecuted for it.

Distribution

Our group will be releasing this music video on YouTube, this is due to the fact that it is considered a very popular site in terms of videos and music, and it is also free to use. Another reason why we decided to upload this video on YouTube is due to the fact that wqe have quite a young target audience, which means quite a lot of them use technology such as YouTube on the regular so it would be convenient for them if we used YouTube in order to distribute our final video. Another site that we've thought about distributing our music video on is Twitter, yet again based on the fact that younger people that are within our target audience will be using applications like Twitter so it would be convenient for them to watch the videos that are uploaded on Twitter. The final means of distributing the music video would be uploading the video on facebook, there are millions of users that use Facebook daily, so by uploading the video on a group page on facebook we're able to attract Runcees followers and keep them informed on other videos coming up.

The treatment helped us as a group plan our music video, and also provided backup plans, and also adds as a checklist in a way, so that no mistakes are made while editing.

Gantt Chart

The gantt chart helped me plan out which tasks that I needed to do, so that no tasks were left incomplete

Production Schedule 

This is the production schedule which helped organise the group as it told us what tasks ned to be completed, and really helped us asa group to plan out the tasks needed to be completed.

Storyboards

These are some of the storyboards that I made for our group, these helped me plan out each shot as they had detailed drawings and also stated what shots and angled needed to be taken.

Edit decision list

The edit decision list really helped us as a group while editing as it helped us decide what effects and transitions to apply to out production and what effects we did not need to apply.

Footage Log

The footage log helped us as a group what footage was useable, and what footage should be re-filmed which was vital as if we did not make a footage log it may have been to late, as we could of put unusable footage in the software

Development of my skills
While editing the production within the group I really gained experience in editing and learnt many new techniques throughout using adobe premiere, for example I learnt how to colour grade, as well as use the speed effect so slow down and speed up the clips to give it a nice aesthetic. My skills also improved in placement as I really started to learn the structure of a music video and where and when clips should be placed, to make the group music video as professional looking as possible. I also learned how to stabilize the video as the footage was slightly shakey on some clips which therefore required me to make the camera movement look smoothe

Additional roles

I also worked alongside Keenen on manipulating the sound as I had to equalize some of the audio, in order to make the music connote the video and sound as high quality as possible. I also removed the any unwanted audio frequencies and unwanted sounds on the audio track as the intro was to long in our opinion so we therefore shortened it to make the video connote the audio more as the videos intro was not as long as the songs intro.