Ten Steps to Success

1. Research - Before starting to plan a music video, it's best to know the history of music videos. What works and what doesn't... To do this as stated in my first blog we looked a t a variety of music videos, where they started and what they are like to this day.
2. Getting in a group - Who to work with is a crucial decision, choosing to work with friends may not always be the best idea for your own grade. - We have a strong group with each member having a different quality. This has proved effective as we are able to work together and get things done.
3. Choosing a track - It has become apparent that choosing a well known track and artist wouldn't be the best, this is because our videos will never compare to the high budgeted videos, and the use of a popular artist would cause criticism, because the people in our videos won't be like the actual star. Fortunately for us our artist Blaze Boy produces his own music, so it wouldn't have been done for.
4. The pitch - This is part of the planning towards your music video, it shows that you are planning and can give a preview to the what your video is going to look like. I also think it's best, so you can get all your ideas down, not forgetting anything.
5. Look at previous students work - This is so you can get the feel for what works best. We looked at a variety of music videos, bad and good, so that we could come up with an idea what we wanted to do, you learn which type of videos don't work as good, like the well know big budgeted videos. After this research we decided to use the hip-hop genre.
6. Planning and shooting - The timescale is the most crucial here. Like in the real music world, you have to treat it with the same importance to meet downloads. To have planning done will make the making the video much smoother, for example knowing what shots you'd like to use before actually shooting.
7. Editing - Looking at all your footage you have filmed, needs to be edited sensibly, it's better to break the work down, and get rid of things you definitely don't want then it will become easier. Again plan how you want to edit your video, a crucial thing that needs to be perfect is the lip syncing! If planned well you will recognise that it comes along easier!
8. Screening and feedback - This is the part where you get feedback from your class, this can be positive as if things need changing here's the chance to! It's good to know what people think of your video too. Ask questions on what they thought of the video and the artist. Take detailed notes on the feedback.
9. Writing -  Follow guidelines you have been given for the A level specification which you are working towards. You should write early on. Don't fill writing with excuses why it went wrong. In the blog cover the whole of your process, technical language, feedback and comments on your video, examples and influence, and include an analysis of the finish product.
10. Marking - Leave the marking to your teacher and hope you've done well! (It was easier to find this information online rather retype it all)