Jasmines presentation

On tuesday morning we were given a presentation on music video making by Jasmine Blackborow.

She had submitted a music video she made with her class to the BBC BLAST competition and won. This meant she was given a £5000 bursary and a whole crew to make another music video.

There were several stages to the process. First there was the treatment, this is where she had to write out and pitch her idea to the producer "Margo". She had to have a pitch which described almost everything that would happen in the video. Here is a snippet from what she wrote.

When planning for the shoot she had to name and link every prop that would be used and exactly how she wanted the actors to be dressed. This would be down to exactly which site and shop where these costumes and props could be found. Like for every video Jasmine had to create a mood board, she seems to go with the youthful tacky look mixed with old nostalgic pictures.

Although before all of this she had to have some initial idea of what she wanted her video to be like, much like the process we go through as a class she drew out several spider diagrams outlining her ideas.

All of this was always cc'd to the producer as she had to overlook everything and to see if it was of possible to accomplish. Before shooting a shot-list had to be made. At first a shot-list was made outlining basic ideas of what Jasmine wanted for each shot. Then she needed to make a perfectly detailed list so the cameramen and cinematographer knew exactly what to shoot.

At last the shooting of her video happened but everything had to be run to a strict schedule so as to fit everything in on one day. If any shot overstayed the allotted amount of time of which it was to be shot in, it would have to be stopped as the schedule had to be followed.

I really enjoyed her presentation, it was very useful to hear from someone who had worked right in the industry and probably has a high chance of working there again. Of the two videos she made (college video "taking it over" and professional video "Lets dance to joy division") i actually enjoyed her college video more. This isn't her fault as when it came down to editing she had no say when it came down to editing the final piece when she worked in the BBC.

Here are the two videos