2. Step 0: limber up
• do some exercises with ‘found footage’
• learn to lipsynch with old student footage
• do a karaoke multi-angle version of a track for
fun
• re-make an existing video frame by frame

3. Step 1: choose a track
• Can be a mistake to go for well-known artist/
your favourite artist
• Make it short !

4. Step 2: write a treatment
• Pitch with a strong and simple idea- a clear and
‘doable’ concept

5. Step 3: Plan for
everything
• storyboard
• people, places, props, costumes
• shoot it early
• rehearse performers

6. Step 4: set up a blog
• link to ideas
• Videos that influence you (YouTube)
• recce shots
• animatic

7. Step 5: know your
equipment
• test shots
• camera quirks
• tripod
• edit program? -experiment
• music and an audible source?

8. Step 6: the shoot
• Shoot the performance at least ten times with different
set-ups
• cutaways
• Experiment with extra angles
• lots of close-ups !
• Enthuse your performers
• Shoot more than you think you will need

9. Step 7: capture your
footage
• Label and organise everything
• manageable chunks

10. Step 8: the edit
• Synch up performances first
• whole picture rather than tiny detail
• Cut and cut again
• dynamic work
• Do any effects work last

11. Step 9: screening
• Get feedback wherever you can