Tuesday 19th Jan - Interview with BBC Blast winner: Jasmine

On Tuesday Jasmine came to our class at Coleridge to offer her advice on making a music video. It was really good to get her guidance and suggestions on our music videos, and the processes we will have to follow to make sure we create a video of standard. Jasmine was just 18 when submitting her video to BBC Blast - the video that she complete for part of her coursework at her college. Herself, a long with a few other girls all put in so much effort to get the piece to a high standard (see below).

After winning the best music video, she had the great pleasure and chance to work with the 'Black Dog' company and directing another video with a budget of £3,000! In this process she said she realised how important it was to plan it out all properly - she refers to this method as 'Treatment' - visuals, keys lyrics/key quotes, storyboard etc. In her brainstorming process she said it was really helpful to take references from other songs, not to steal them but to borrow and get inspiration from them.

Some major advice jasmine gave us was about shot listing and storyboarding. She said it was useful to keep a shot list, as it has the times and lyrics of some points in the song, so it is easy to work out where you want each scene to happen. Also, storyboarding is all about making every key point accurate, and also to try doing these on post-its so if it doesn't work out when you come to edit, you can move it out the storyboard and perhaps put it in somewhere else.

Things I have learned:

• don't get too focused on one shot
• be in control - love it - get involved
• make it fun
• get everyone involved
• keep people up to date - email etc.
• keep any documents up to date - dates etc.