Yasmine's presentation

Today Jasmine, the winner of the 2007 BBC blast competition with her A level music video, came to talk to us about how she made it. it was helpful to hear her talk about her music video as she must have put so much effort onto it and she told us the differences between the experiences of directing the BBC blast music video and doing her own. The main thing she saw was that in the BBC blast video, everybody stuck to their roles, as each person was a professional in their area. As a result she had to find a way to communicate as a director to show what she wanted. It also meant that she couldn't criticize the editing of the video, which she wanted to be more upbeat. She also had to make a lot of decisions on the spot when people came to her for advice so there was a lot of pressure on her.

Here is the A level music video she created with a group of 5 girls:


Here is the BBC blast video she made with £3000 and a crew of professional music video creators: at the black dog company:


She had to do a lot of Pre-Production work for this video. Firstly she had to create a treatment. This was a rough version of the ideas she had. She told us not to go into detail on all the camera shots in particular, but to describe in brief the storyline and the mood you'd like the video to have. Also to give references on exactly what you want in the video. For example, not just 'a boy' but more like 'a boy wearing this exact shirt and who is 12 years old. Or not just 'an inflateable toy' but gives references to which toy exactly. She describes the treatment like a 'paper version' of a music video.

Here is her treatment:




She also made a more detailed shotlist to outline her ideas. This had to be updated 4 or 5 time until the final was made, but it's all a part of the process of refining the ideas.

Here is her shotlist: