Planning Of My Music Video

I started planning my music video by first deciding what song I wanted to use as choosing a song was one of the most important things to do. I chose my song which is Rihanna- Take a bow. I could then start thinking about idea's what I could do for my music video. I decided that I would use a narrative instead of having my music video as a performance. I could then start thinking about my narrative which I can use throughout my video. I chose my narrative to consist of a boy and girl in a relationship but the girl finds out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her.
I then looked at other music videos that could relate to my music video to get some idea's. I then started to create my story board, my story board took a while for me to create as after over a minute I couldn't think of anything which I could do but after looking at other music video's I got a few idea's and eventually finished my storyboard. After I created my storyboard I took photo's of all of my images and uploaded them onto the computer so that I can create my animatic.
On the 7th November I booked a camera from Ray and took the camera home to start filming for my music video. I decided to use my best friend Jess for my main actress as I know she is reliable and only lives a few minutes away from me and also I wanted to use Jess as I used her for my AS work when taking photo's for my music magazine. I knew that Jess would be a good actress as she is confident enough to sing into the camera which I needed as lots of my shots in my video involve her singing into the camera. I also decided to use my boyfriend James as I also know that he is very reliable, he will be the ex boyfriend of Jess who has cheated on her. I also took a camera on the 10th November to film as it was too dark to video on the 7th as I left it too late to video because it got dark very early which means that I wouldn't be able to get good video footage as the camera's that I am using do not work well in the dark.
I watched my footage on the computer and realised that my footage was not good quality as my clips were not long enough so i could edit them. I also realised that the lighting was too dark on some scenes so next time I film I will get lots of lighting so that my footage is not dark.
I filmed again on the 22nd November, I decided to re-shoot my shots of Jess just singing straight into the camera as the ones I did before were too dark so this time I decided to re-shoot these shots in my bathroom as it had lots of lighting, I also used lamps to make it brighter and it worked very well. I also shot the image of James laying on the sofa checking his phone but it has no messages. I also had to put all the lights on and get extra lightening to make it brighter. I have not been able to carry on with my filming as it has been snowing which is stopping me from filming as I have to shoot my video outside and I have already shot some of my video outside. Since I have not been able to carry on with my filming I have been doing research, I have been analysing album covers which will help me when I will be creating my digipak.