What I Learned From The Preliminary Task

Locations:
I learnt that the location you choose not only has to fit with what you are shooting but has to have suitable lighting and you may have encounter difficulties such as when shooting outdoors we had to stand in mud and the weather wasn't always the best - but we had to carry on regardless in order to film our scene. I don't think we always got the lighting right with our locations (some of our indoor shots are a bit dark) however, overall our outdoors lighting isn't too bad. Next time, I would ensure that when shooting indoors I would use somewhere with good natural lighting or have access and use artificial lights.

Planning:
We planned the parts of the video the were not the memories because we wanted the memories to be spontaneous and natural as they would be if they were real. For the parts we planned we printed out the song lyrics and wrote what would be happening for each line - we did not story board this piece and should have really but as we wanted the memories to be spontaneous we couldn't have really drawn out what would be happening so would have had an incomplete storyboard anyway, I would however story board for the final piece as this makes what I want to be happening much clearer. We also did not write a script for this piece as like I said the memories were improvised as was the fight scene and so we didn't want to script this - again next time I would write a script if I chose to do a music video with some speech, a film trailer or a short film as this would be vital

Organisation:
As I worked in a pair for this piece any filming and editing that would be done together had to be worked out by comparing our school timetables (and also the timetable of the person who featured in our video) for when we were all available.

Teamwork:
We  both agreed o all aspects of the video (the music, locations and content) We also both filmed parts of it and edited it together - having to both agree on the clips that would be used and what effects and transitions that we wanted.

Editing:
We decided on using quite simple transistions such as fade to create a more professional look. As for the colour of the clips we decided that the 'memories' should be made brighter as these would have been when the people n the video wuld have been happy.  The present day clips were made black and white to show that they would be feeling down.

Final Product:
I am reasonably happy with the video and think that it is good for a first attempt - but I can however see many faults with it, such as some of the footage being in portrait whereas the majority is in landscape and some of the footage that isn't supposed to be amateur and handheld is quite shaky and doesn't look very professional. But I do however particularly like the rewind section and the idea of the clips of the girlfriend being like 'memories' filmed by the boyfriend.