Mr Wynn

Today we had an arranged meeting with Jake Wynn, an established music video director who's worked with big people. He went to a film school in Staffordshire and then went into the business as a runner before becoming an editor and working his way up and building up favours as he went along before being signed up to a major company.

He also told us that when he first started budgets for music videos were much healthier and have gotten increasingly low as the time's gone past.

He taught us that we should have a 'performance bed', one or many long shots of the artist performing rather than only recording what you had planned to be seen. This would mean that when working we would never (in theory) have to get them to perform the song again and you wouldn't run the risk of having gaps between your performance and your narrative. He also said that narrative can be used to hide 'weak spots' in the performance, which I think is a little sneaky.