Personal skills audit

From doing Media I will gather a range of skills that I will need in order to create a succesful music idea. I gathered a lot of these skills from doing AS media this will help me in my A2 project but my skills will need to be improved as they are not quite up to scratch to get the grade I aspire to get from  doing this A2 project.

The skills i will need are:

• Camera skills - I will need skills in order to take different shots to put in my video i am producing. 

• Editing skills - I will need to have editing skills as i will need to edit the shots i have taken to put them together at the right time in the music video.

• Creativity - I will need to be creative when I am producing this so when i come around to making my video it will not be boring and will show elements of my creativity in there. 

Photoshoot Planning

On this page I will be explaining what I intend to do when I do my photoshoot. When i get my photos from my photoshoot it will not only be for my photoshoot but i will also be taking shots I have taken to use in my Digipack and my music video advert as this it will be easier to take these shots at the same time and will be time efficient for myself. What I intend to do with my photoshoot is have several individual shots of each member of the band, in the photo of Peter (The singer) I would like to have a picture of he from the side whist he is holding the microphone with the drums behind him but edit the camera lens so that the drums are blurred. i would also use use a spotlight to emphasise on Peter so that would put less emphasis on the drums. I would also put the name of the song where the blurred drums are, I will do this by using photoshop to put the text over the top. I would also like to do the same shot of Peter doing this but facing the camera.

As for jake (the drummer of the band) I would like to take a shot of him with a drum stick in his mouth with his hood up I would like to do this as it would look good as part of a digipack for the band, I could also use this "drum stick in the mouth idea" to do shot where he appears to be writing song lyrics whist doing this. To do this i use a spot light in him and do a close up shot of the thought he is putting into writing the lyrics. I would also like to do a shot where he is leaning against his drum set and the drum stick is in midair and jake is about to catch it i would use lighting from the side of jake and use a medium shot here.

The idea I had for Jerome (the guitarist of the band) would be have a picture of him playing the guitar and have lighting coming from right to left, I believe this would make a more professional look for the digipack. I will also have a shot of him stood up playing in front of a microphone to show him doing backing lyrics this shot will be a close up.

For the bassist (Alex) I would just like to take several different shots of him, mostly without the his bass as if I have all the band playing their instrument it will not show much creativity and will not look like I have put much thought into the photoshoot as everyone will just basically be doing the same thing.

Photo editing software

When I do my photo shoot with my band for my Digipack, album cover etc. the software I will be using to edit the photos when I upload them to the Mac will be Phostoshop CS5 extended edition as this would be the best program I could use to do this to edit it if there is something i do not like in the photo or i just need to change a few things such as reflections etc.

Video editing software

The editing software i will be using is Final Cut HD i will be using this program because it has many uses in editing videos which will come in handy when i come around to editing the shots i have taken for my music video. This program offers a variety of techniques in which can be used to edit videos as you will see in the production of my music video.

Rough cut 2

This is my second rough cut as you can see from this there is quite a lot more shots have been taken than in the first one and there is some elements of editing in there also, this is not my final product i am still looking to get a lot more shots for this music video and do more editing as i know can produce a product that will be a lot better than this one.

Costume Planning

In my music video my actors/band members will not have precise costumes such as costume etc. but i have told them to all wear zip jackets so, this will make them look more like a band, however the singer of the band does not wear a zip jacket and will wear a plain white shirt when the full band shots are taken this is to emphasise the fact that he is the lead singer and when the band plays most of the attention will be around him.

Other than this in the acting scenes/ playing instruments outdoors i just asked the people that will be appearing in my music video to dress casual. The reason i asked them to dress casual for these parts of the song is because it will seem more realistic the things they are doing and i don't want scenes in the music video i am making to be to out of the ordinary as i believe the audience i am making this for may not agree with this idea.

Band name

In doing my research in this genre i discovered that the band names in this genre are not generally just one word so when I was discussing with the band what the band name would be we had to had to think long and hard bout it. Eventually we came up with the name "One Time Only" this seems somewhat fitting to the band as the band do not ordinarily play together, they are all from different bands, this band name is also easy to remember and sounds good and catchy just like other band names such as "Panic! at the disco" and "The red hot chilli peppers".

This name will also look good on the album cover and the digipack i will be making for the band which would be good as it makes them look more professional.