Music Video 'Falling'
Soon after
the meet and greet show, we went straight into a new aspect of studio
production and this to my delight was producing a music video. With having
being musical in the past and having a keen ear for music this production was
straight up my street. Before we got started on the project, we first had a
lecture on music videos and how to count beats and bars. This lecture was so
interesting for me as I know how to count beats in a bar but putting it into
making a music video was really intriguing for me at least! At the end of that
lesson we had no say in what we wanted to do but more what our lecturer wanted
us to do.
During that
week we found out that it was a first year commercial music student called
Gabrielle Larkin along side second year music student Craig Medlin and the song
was called ‘Falling.’ The next week I find out that I am on VT and grams. At
first I had no clue what grams consisted of however I have had experience of
rolling the VT before.
What is a
VT and Grams?
A Videotape
Operator plays in pre recorded material for rehearsals and recordings and then
looks after the recordings. They also make the VT clock for each rehearsals and
takes. Music and effects are played out by a gram’s operator.
When
operating the VT and Grams it became clear to me that these two roles would be
normally operated by two different people. Although it wasn’t the most
challenging job of working off these both, one aspect that I found was to start
the music video, it became a bit of a rush because everything was depending on
me pressing record, then starting the clock and further on playing the backing
track into the studio floor. For that part I did feel a bit of pressure, as
that was the only important part of my job role to make sure the show is being
recorded, making the countdown clock correct for each rehearsal and take and to
play the music in on 3 seconds exactly.
Although
this job wasn’t necessarily a big hands on part of the production, someone has
to be on the case. What I liked about being in the gallery was the atmosphere,
and I think I prefer the gallery to the studio floor as I like being able to
see what is being done behind the cameras. But not only that, I feel like being
in the gallery lets you see what the finished production could look like and
with each aspect of working in the gallery you can see what your work is doing
to be put into the production, as for me I can see my VT clock on the big
screen and can hear the backing track being played into the studio floor.
Although I
was a bit sceptical at first of what the job role included and thinking I
wasn’t that involved with the production, I realised that actually without me
the production most likely wouldn’t have been able to happen.
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