One of the biggest problems I faced during this project is how hard I found it to document my ideas. I knew I couldn’t just DO my work, I had to find a way of showing how I did something (which is also why I’m having such a hard time writing my research blogs). That being said, one of the most difficult tasks I faced was trying to decide on whether to use a script format or shot list format to document what I needed to film for my video.

In most cases, a script would make more sense to use; it looks more professional to start with, as well as being the more popular to way to explain what is needed of the actors in certain scenes. Not to mention, in more first draft of my proposal, I stated how I wanted to write a script for my opening dialogue.

However, I didn’t take into consideration how useful a shot list would be to my final production. Firstly, it didn’t take anywhere near as much as effort to format correctly: no need for fancy fonts or specific formatting, nor much need for it to be in chronological order. A shot list would mean I can keep the dialogue ambiguous, and it also means I can just jot down any ideas that come to my mind.

Practically, in this case, it made more sense for me to do a shot list as there wasn’t going to be much speaking, due to it being a music video (UPDATE: there ended up being no dialogue whatsoever anyway due to my terrible memory and bad time keeping)