On Friday the 2nd of October, Pete Fraser and Jake Wynne visited our school and gave a talk on his experience and tips in the music industry. Although i wasn't in school this day i asked the rest of my class to fill me in on what he said, they all said they found it extremely useful.
Pete Fraser's tips included:
Planning for everything-
-Storyboard (even if you shoot extra scenes after)
-Plan who, what, where, when and how
-Aim to shoot early so that you can always shoot more and its not up against the deadline.
-Make sure everyone had rehearsed eveything
Know Your Equipment
-Do test shots so that you van test the effects that you are going to use.
-Check any quirks of the camera
-Make sure that you have a tripod and shoe
-Make sure that you will have enough memory if not bring back up cards
-Experiment with editing before you do your final
-Make sure that you have an audible source of the song so that not only the performer can hear it but the camera as well.
The Shoot
-Shoot the performance at least 10 times with different set-ups
-Make sure that you have plenty of cutaways
-Experiment with extra angles and light changes
-Dont forget- lots of close ups!!
-Enthuse your performance- they must give it plenty
-Shoot more than you think you will need
The Edit
-Sync up the performance first
-Get the whole picture rather than tiny detail
-Cut cut and cut again
-Aim for a dramatic piece of work
-Do any effects work last
-Upload a rough cut to your blog and get feedback
The Blog
-Evidence of whole journey
-Research, planning, construction of all 3 products
-Evaluation
-Finished products
Good House Keeping
-Tidy desktop
-storage of footage
-labeling files
-Tidy blog
Evidence
-Real music videos (of your genre)
-Any visuals that have influenced you
-Steal-o-matic
-Costume photos, location photos, test shots
-Real album covers
-Real band websites
-Early exercises designing album covers
-Changes to your design=screen grabs
-Show how it is a 'package'
-Student music videos, digipacks and websites with comments
-Jake's videos and tips
-Photos and clips from today
-Storyboard and animatic of your video plan
-Feedback from your peers
-Rough cuts of your video
-Screen grabs of your edit in progress
-'behind the scenes'
-Regular commentary on what you are doing.
When to do a digipack
-In parallel, NOT at the end
-Taking photos for later use
-Having lots of extra ideas
-Can do more than one design within the group
