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Skills needed:

Decision Making

As a director, I need to have to be the person to make the final decisions. Although a director usually gets the views of the others in the team. The views may be divided so I need to be the one to make the final decision.

I feel like I need to work on this soft skill as I’ve always been indecisive.

Creativity

This is another skill that I already have as I’ve always been very imaginative and I can easily think of how to do things

Management skills

I think I need to improve on this skill as I currently struggle to set goals, however I also know the skills of my group very well so I know what things we as a group need to improve the most

Adaptability

I can adapt to situations quite easily, however, I am very influenced by other people as I don’t want to disappoint anyone. However, I also get stressed when things don’t go my way

Analytical skills

A director needs to be able to analyse scripts, music, books and so on. In terms of analysing what I need to do to make something looks good or accurate, I’d say that I’m good at it.

Emotional intelligence

In terms of understanding others emotions, I can read faces and movements really easily to know if someone is happy, sad and angry

Interpersonal Communication

This is one skill I know that I need to improve on as I know that I struggle to explain things, but this is also a very important skill as without it, the video is guaranteed to come out bad

Problem solving solving skills

I’d say that I have very good problem solving skills. A director would need to be able to quickly come up with solutions such as bad weather or people not showing up or being sick or missing equipment

Leadership

A director is usually the head of the production, they have to be able to tell everyone what they want and need them to do, plus without leadership, it would be very chaotic. I think that this is a skill I already have

Organisation

This would also depend on all the other team members. As the director (or a designated person) would need to plan out the schedule and if someone in the group suddenly can’t make it, then they would need to move around the schedule to make sure that everyone who is needed to be there is actually there. Also so that it’s easier for the editor to put everything together, it’s good to stay to a plan and write down what shots were caught in the plan.

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Here is a video of us going through the final part of the music video. For this video, I decided the exact location thinking of lighting and how convenient it was to shoot there when keeping in mind of passers by. As director it was my job to decide the camera location and actions. Although this is just rehearsal footage, I was still in charge of saying when to start shooting and when to stop.

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This is just a quick voice description of what I have been doing since I started and what I was focusing on the day of recording this.

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To be a good editor, I needed to choose the best possible software I could in order to get the best results.

My top option was Premier Pro as I know that that is a professional editing site that is also being used to edit many movies and music videos. It has a lot of features which can ensure I get a good and acceptable result. However, it can be expensive if you pay for it yourself, and for a while it was free through my college but after, for some reason it was no longer free so I knew I needed to find a good replacement.

After talking to some people, another option for me to use was IMovie however, I was not very confident with it and I knew that I would need to go though many tutorials once again.

Another option was CapCut for desktop and this ended up being the option I went for as I have a friend who works as a professional Editor and a I have seen him work with Capcut and I knew that I could directly ask him any questions I had so this ended up being my final choice and the software I finished the video with

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Here is some feedback from my groups production manager

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Here is some feedback from my groups production manager

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Feedback: Did well at helping organise our rehearsal shoots. Came with me to scout locations and gave lots of feedback. Helped make sure we were in time for dance routine. Sometimes I found your instructions slightly confusing but also I might be stupid but when I ask if you could clarify you always did and I understood. Had really creative solutions to filming problems we had such as the first person camera idea you came up with , really added something cool to the music video. You also did lots of research on how to make a music video

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This is the shoot for one of the black and white scenes. I borrowed some electrical tape from one of my teachers so I can map out the camera for the shoot which you can see on the floor. I specifically went through this route step by step while also telling the camera person the speed of each thing and what to focus on. As soon as she semi understood, I gave her the camera and turned on the song and directed her using the music telling her what parts and actions to look out for when moving. Right after, I also explained to the main actor in the scene her exact movements and what to listen out for at certain points so that she knows exactly when to move and what actions to do.

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Clip of me showing the camera person the  route

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Due to Premier Pro's settings, it for some reason didnt film the actual video screen, only the effects panel and all the video's I added in.

This is a sped up video of me editing the video as my group got the first few clips done. Throughout this time, I was watching multiple tutorials about how to do certain aspects such as zooming in and out or even how to block out objects as there was a point in this where I realised that in a overly good shot, 2 of the lights were showing, therefore I looked at many tutorials to figure out the best way to block them out as well as overall just experimenting with how to make it even more realistic.

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Computer skills

This is one of the most important as an editor works completely on a computer. But they mainly need to have skills with an editing software. I have some computer skills but I know I can get better especially with editing

Organisation skills

An editor must be able to organise their schedule so that they can submit the video on time and maybe even leave extra time just in case something may go wrong. I have organisation skills however, I’m not very good at following them.

Communication skills

An editor must communicate with the director and the camera operator to get the best results. They must talk with a camera operator to make sure that the shots can be connected and they need to communicate with the director to make sure that they are making everything the way the director wants or even better. In my case, I’m both Director and editor so I just need to communicate with the camera operator

Self motivation

Editing videos can take hours up to days and to get the best results, the editor must be motivated. And if they’re not motivated, it can take longer than needed and the editor may be brought off of the schedule. I’m very excited to do the editing for my groups music videos so I think that I’ll do quite well with this.

Creativity and visualisation skills

An editor must be able to visualise their completed projects. When a director explains the editor their idea, the editor must be able to recreate the idea. However, sometimes, the director makes another simply sketched version of the music video so that the editor doesn’t need to remember everything from memory. In my case, we are recreating the music video as similarly as we can, so we have the look of the final product already set.

Storytelling abilities

It is a director's job to figure out how to explain a story through a video, but it is an editor's Job to express the Directors idea through a cut and edited version of the many, many videos sent to the Editor.​

Ability to work well with others

An editor must work with a number of people to get the end product, to look as the director had planned.​ I am overall quite good at working with others as I'm quite compassionate.

Ability to adapt

An editor must be able to adapt in case something happens with an editing site or in case they lose some of the footage. I am somewhat good at this however, I do with to improve as a lot of the time, I tend to panic when something bad happens.

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The full pitch can only be found in the video of me and my group presenting it.

This is our unfinished pitch as the original was lost, however, most of my parts are on here.

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This is one of the shoots for a part of the music video which we ended up dropping. This edit was made by or camera operator after the first shoot. near the end of the video you can clearly see me telling the person in front of the camera what to do for a certain bit of the video. In this shoot, I was constantly telling everyone what exactly to do and according to our contingency plan, I as the director took over with filming when our camera operator was in front rather than behind the camera

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This is a green screen test which I requested from my group just for me to test my green screen editing abilities which I had recently learnt about however, after a group discussion, we all agreed to cut out a part of the video we were originally planning on doing therefore I no longer needed the green screen skills however I gained them for any possible future editing I may need to do

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Assignment Brief, Acting, MT and Dance  

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Assignment Brief, Acting, MT and Dance  

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This is part one of telling everyone my creative vision for the dance break and what I thought of in order to make sure everyone knows it and can do it as in sync as possible while also not spending hours learning each and every part of the dance. The three people who knew the main part worked their best to sync up and after I described to the other 2 what they need to do for their parts so that they're not burdened with trying to learn a dance when they're not comfortable with their dancing.

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This is one of the times when I recorded the video from my phone to send to my team so that they're up to date with everything that's happening for me and so I can make any adjustments in case they don't like something. and after seeing this, one of my group members messaged me saying she wasn't comfortable with how she looked in a scene so in order to ensure everyone was happy with the final product I decided to use another shot to entirely replace the shot she really didn't like, luckily it was only a few seconds long so it was very easy

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Me keeping up and showing my group a semi ready vid

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This video is more of when things started to go together smoothly. At one part, when someone didnt fully understand what they had to do so I decided to go through the dance first at normal speed with the music and then I step by step explained all while let the others watch me. This helped me to get my thoughts together without people around me talking to much or asking me questions so in the end I decided to change some parts of what the original choreography had to something different and easier

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Me and my group deciding final choreography

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In my group padlet there is evidence of me finding video tutorials on how to use the my first chosen software: Premier pro. I had to look at how to do things such as edit a green screen, zoom in through editing and more.

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This was the original library scene which can be seen in the music video, however it is a bit different, but for this scene, we all roughly had an idea of what was supposed to happen however, we all agreed that we wanted to make it a bit different especially since after looking at the weather, I decided for all of our safety to do it inside, but in this clip I am telling everyone step by step what they're supposed to do. for each person i tell them what to do and if needed i give a short demonstration as well and especially for the main person in the scene, to add the effect I want, I was directing the main person slowly step by step.

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This was the original plan for one of the dance scenes which I had originally thought of knowing that two of our members wouldnt be able to learn the dance in time. This whole message I sent was just me explaining to everyone how the scene would work while also making it so that everyone isnt too stressed with this work.

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This was the original plan for a section of what we were planning to do on the following day. People were a bit confused about what exactly we would be doing so I decided to set it clear and put in the time stamps of the music video that we would be doing and so that the costume designer can take a look and do her job of deciding on what we sould wear

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This is me just going through the list for the following day to ensure that everyone clearly understands. Due to having issues with people being late and complaining, I decided to take initiative and tell everyone about being late and the consequences.

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There is more evidence of me doing my job as the director in my group padlet where I went through the music videos over and over again while highlighting on the script each of our parts on camera thinking of both Camera and choreography, however, after showing my group this, and discussing things with the Costume designer and choreographer, we all collectively decided that we wouldn't be able to follow this exactly as planned due to factors such as costume missing or some people not being able to learn the choreography in time