Rebecca Barrett - TV Production blog

Video script: Risk assessments:

What went well? Shortly after our briefing, I went back to the messages Sebastian, which reminded me about a music video he was looking for someone to do to, and, as this was a unit where this would fit in, I decided to do it. As with commission, it was about what the client wanted, I asked Sebastien what ideas he wanted for the video, and after he gave me some thoughts about his vision, I took them further and created both a video script and storyboard. I showed him the video script at first to make sure he was happy with the detailed ideas I had come up with for the video. The story I had created was a girl who was suffering from mental health issues, who after a final straw, took her own life and ended in purgatory where she meets death, embracing him and accepting her own passing. However, we also both decided that the video wouldn't be too explicit in showing her passing away as we didn't want to video to trigger anyone. These ideas went really well with the briefi

Music video analysis: 'A narrative music video tells a story, logically or sequentially through a chain of events that are put together to run parallel to each other.' - (2014) For my music video analysis, I took a look at three different narrative music videos to help me create an idea or structure about the video I had to make. For my first analysis, I decided to pick my first video as 'Lost in the Echo' by Linkin Park. This was the video I picked as the way in which it was filmed was similar to the video I was making, in the way that it focused on performance or a story and didn't include the band singing or performing themselves. Screenshot from the video The video itself tells the story of a 'post-apocolyptic world' where 'photos don't exist anymore' (Wallace, 2012) a lone man with a briefcase walks through ruined buildings and distributes photos to numerous people within those buildings. The video then shows each of the p

Getting my commission: For this project, I initially began thinking about it back in September when our uni briefs came through. But I got a message from Sebastien Hal, who I now work for, that reminded me that he was still interested in having me create a music video for him. I was asked by Sebastien back in June 2019 by the leader and audio editor of the online animation studio, asking if I would be interested in creating a music video for him for a song he had already created. This song is called Nemophilist. This song follows the story of a young girl who has dreams of escaping from her reality as it is a nightmare, where she finds a forest, which becomes her escape. As said above, he reached out to me as he knew I was proud of advocating for mental health and wanting to change the conversation around it. I knew straight away that it was something I wanted to do as mental health is an extremely close and personal topic to me. I replied back that I was happy to do it,