Pete went through his tips in order for us to succeed and told us about the things to do and to avoid for us to get top marks. I found this really useful as he highlighted really obvious points which reinstated them and made me remember in time for shooting our own music video. He told us to plan for everything, especially to shoot extra, this seems obvious but it reminded me to keep shooting everything and to aim to shoot early and not against a deadline. He reminded us to make sure we know our equipment in order to avoid any delays or mistakes when filming. He suggested we do test shots to experiment with different effects and to check any quirks of the camera as this may become useful to us and enable to get some shots we didn't plan for but still fit in. He told us that he recommended that we shoot the performance at least 10 times with different set ups to create a different effects and this enables us to change it around when editing and allows space for mistakes or wonky shots. He also said to experiment with extra angles and different lighting as this can vary our shots and make them interesting. When editing our music video he recommended to edit a rough cut and upload it to our blog so that we can receive feedback whilst we edit the final cut. Whilst editing he suggested we that we sync up the performance first so that we know if we're missing any shots or if any shots need to be re-done, then add effects in last. He gave us some links to a few really good student blogs so that we can look at theirs and take some inspiration and learn from theirs. He reminded us that we need to have constant evidence of learning and improvement and we can do this in the form of other photos, student videos, real music videos, real album covers and test shots.
We then had a talk from Jake Wynne about his journey through the media industry. He explained his initial interests in directing films and music videos. He then got his first job in the industry running at Rushes Post Production House and learned how to cut on non-linear editing systems. After working his way up through post-production and editing award winning commercials and promos at Final Cut in London for the likes of Robbie Williams and the Spice Girls, he joined up with fellow school friend Jim Canty to direct a video for Sony Music's Nojahoda in 1999. In December 2006, Jake and Jim went their seperate ways to explore new projects, with Jake joining Blue Post Productions as Director and senior Avid offline editor. In February this year Jake was lucky enough to win a number of awards in both New York and London for a Shelter charity film that he directed. Below you can see one of the music videos he edited.
In the afternoon, we got the opportunity to be directed by Jake. We used 5 cameras to get different shots and we had 5 performances. We had to wear dark clothing and paint our faces so that we looked similar to Robbie Williams in his 'Let Me Entertain You' music video. We then had the chance to perform the song several times through but with different people doing different roles. Jake made it clear to us that you should always run through the whole song rather than just filming the line you want and that you should have more than one camera filming at any time to capture the different angles. 
