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On the 10th July, I (Richard) went to cambridge to see a Director of Photography to help me and to explain what I exactly had to do in the Music Video. When I got to the location of meeting he had also brought along a Director to help explain the feilds of being a DP.
From the meeting I found out that the DP goes through all the three stages of making the film Pre, Post and filming production. The DP is the person who makes sure every thing is fine with the lighting, camera movement, location, storyboard, and the coustumes. He/She also make sure that the film is going exatly how the director wants it to look, however if the director wants to try somthing new the DP has to decided if it fits in with the rest of the film.

The director also gave me a few pointers on the directing part and how to make shot look and how to make the actor really get into there roles.

The area that benfited me during the meeting was talking to the DP and director on shots. We spoke about what makes them intresting. This was the mainly the idea of using depth of field, and lining up the band in a way to make it intriguing. The examples they gave of this were of arranging  them so the lead singer is closer to the camera and the rest of the band is in the distance and out of focus. Like the example on the left. This discussion would benfit me in the production stages as this helped me to think of creating shots that will keep the audience gripped.