Meeting the Director

On Friday the 25th of June we had a chance to meet Jake Wynne, a British director and editor of music videos, commericals and digital online content, who later on in the year will be helping direct our music video workshop of recreating the 5ive music video- everybody get up.

We had this unique opportunity to learn about making music videos, something which would come in very useful for our coursework next year and also watch some of the videos he had created and gain useful tips.

One video which i was vastly impressed with was the Nojahoda video, as it was very excentric and strange and showcased alot of media techniques and skills all in one (such as special fx and wrapping images around faces), but Jake highly stressed that we steer clear of this for our music video, as it was just far too complicated.

One piece of advice i found very useful was that it was far beneficial to get more footage than not enough, and that you had to be very strict and brutal with time, as it runs out very quickly and you need to make sure you have the right footage to put across the whole story.

Something i would very much like to use in my music video coursework which Jake talked about was a beauty shot, one which just shows the main artist singing alone in front of a plain background with lots of lighting to mask any blemishes. This is clearly seen in Jakes Geri Halliwel music video for 'Its Raining Men'

Overall i found talking to the director very beneficial, and it was nice to gain alot of imformation about him before having to work with him on the shoot.