Producing a music video
So when I was first tasked with producing and making my own music video to a pre-existing song, my initial thought was to look for inspiration in order to collect ideas. I searched through different music genres, artists and songs until I remembered a Nike advert I once watched which I particularly enjoyed. The song in the advert was Ice Cube's "Today was a good day" and the video consisted of my favorite skateboarder cursing through the streets of Los Angeles, meeting up with friends and landing some very difficult tricks. I decided that I could use some of the same ideas in my video considering that is basically my day to day life anyway, so I set about creating a story board and planning with friends how we would shoot each angle and skateboard trick. So the filming day came and we started skating, we had multiple cameras filming at all times through the evening, collecting different shots of skating and just general B-roll of all of us. We used a gimbal to s...