Planning the video

Our final idea that we are going to attempt is to utilise as many distinctive settings as possible and link them together when editing. In order to do so we are going to go to a number of locations, and shoot individual parts of the video at those locations.

Locations needed: 
A park (or a similar suitable area with grass and trees)
Garages
Shops
Play parks
Pathways
And any other distinctive settings we may come across while filming.

We need to have the people playing the band members who aren't singing in motion or doing something interesting while they are on camera to keep the scene looking interesting to the viewer. Other than this, they can distract from possible errors with the film, as the viewers would be watching the band members. To ensure our video uses the best shots we will take a variety of takes of the same shot, and we will need a lot of shots as they need to be quick shots to keep up with the tempo of the song we have.

Planning the video

As you can see from the screen shot we got from BBC Weather, the forecast for this weekend in London is sunny, a benefit for the scenes we want to film, which we have planned to do on Sunday, as we do not have to contend with the weather. The weather looks fine throughout the rest of the week, meaning we could film throughout the week if needed.

Planning the video

In our group we have decided to each be in charge of a certain aspect of the production of our video. We have assigned jobs for each member to focus on while we are creating the video. My job was to find locations and people to appear in the video, Frankie's job will be to control the camera work and Ahmed, will be tasked with constructing the sets for our different shots in the video. 

Despite having individual main jobs, we will alternate them between us so that we all have the opportunity to develop our skills from each different practice. This will give us a better overall understanding of the processes that go into creating a music video.

Conventions of a Music Video

All music videos contain different plots, stories and meanings.

Performance- When the band or artist is playing or performing the song for the camera. It could also be footage from a tour.

Narrative- This could be where the meaning of the song lyrics and the song is played out and acted out in someway so the video tell a story.

Mixture- This could be where in the music video the musician is playing as well as a narrative storyline occurring and the camera would cross cut to each scene and different shot. 

Cameo-where the musician features in the narrative but is not actually part of the storyline and does not perform in it. A great example of this would be Kasabian's 'Vlad The Impaler' which starred Noel Fielding.

Animation-Some music videos have a mixture involving animation that is edited in, this adds creativity and originality to the video. An example of this would be A Ha’s ‘Take me on’ video.

Planing our music video

For our video idea we are going to rely on having different settings to switch the band into and possibly having them switch their outfits. This is vital in creating our video as viewers will lose interest in our video if it begins to be repetitive.

We narrowed down in our search to use a couple of base locations for our film. Our main search criteria was to look for places that have a gritty look to them, with a splash colour. but mainly that they have distinctive characteristics about them.

The local park fits our description for what we are looking for. And parts of it will most likely be used in our filming process. Along with the distinctive colours of the tress at this time of year, it has a slightly darker look that is brought about by the colours themselves.

Audio Clip

                               

Here is an audio clip of our chosen song which we have received permission for. When we emailed the band asking for permission they also sent us the mp3 file of the song.

Animatic

                              

This is the animatic created from our storyboard. The animatic shows a rough idea of the outline of the video including camera angles and length of the shot.