Research & Planning

(A) Organisation Of Time & Equipment

When organising our time and equipment for the Foundation Portfolio, we started off by making sure that we had decided ont he days that we wanted to film so that we knew exactly when we were going to go out with the cameras to ensure that we had time to refilm any scenes if needed afterwards. This also meant that as we knew exactly when we wanted to film, there were no problems with taking out equipment at the same time as any other group. Our planing for the project turned out to be succesful as we filmed when we planned to and had no problems when we needed extra days to film again as we left ourselves time. However, planning for filming in our Advanced Portfolio proved to be difficult due to our choice of outdoor location and bad/winter weather which meant that we were unable to film on a couple of occasions. This meant that we then had to change location and try to arrange a time when it was okay for the artist and ourselves to be able to film. As we both had knowledge from filming our Foundation Portfolio, it meant that we knew that if we didnt make a quick decision to change our location for the music video then we would waste a large amount of time.

(B) The Efficient Choice & Organization Of Actors, Settings And Props

For our Foundation Portfolio task, as there was three of us in the group we felt that it would be easiest to use Toby as our actor, one of our group as it meant that it would be easier to arrange when we filmed and could discuss this in lessons. Toby was also appropriate for the character in film as he wore dark clothes and fitted the part more than anyone else we knew. However, as the three of us lived in different places it meant that we had to film during lesson times which did end up being a problem because our actor would not turn up to some lessons, this also meant that we had to choose a location which was easily accessible and would not allow us to be let down by the actor for the distance of it. The difference in choosing our Advanced Portfolio was that the music video project meant we were unable to use ourselves in the video, so we had to choose an artist that we trusted and would hopefully be reliable if we wanted them to be in the video. Luckily, our friend was talented and willing to both record a song for us and be in the video with another friend of ours so they were willing to meet on a day that was easy for all of us to film on.

(C) Scripting And/Or Storyboarding

When coming up with an idea for our Foundation Portfolio, it was fairly easy to create our storyboard as we were quick to decide on what we wanted to film. When we came to film, we used our storyboard as a guidance and as it was our first project felt more comfortable more or less sticking to our storyboard throughout filming and only needed one draft of it. The difference between the scripting of our Advanced Portfolio was that we started with a draft, which then was changed due to our change of location and was then changed once again for our final storyboard as throughout filming and thinking about ideas for our location we changed our mind on what we thought would work. The problem with doing a performance based video was that we had to think  of many difference shots and angles to put down on our storyboard to make it interesting and original. Therfore when shooting we did not stick to the storyboard as much as in the Foundation Portfolio because we had more confidence to think outside the box and do things differently to how to first intended.

(D) Initial Target Audience Research