Track and Permissions

The song (press play)

I chose this track because I like the sound and lyrics of the song. The first time I heard it I could imagen the scene of the performance, and what the band would look like.

Permission to use the song

I emailed one of the memebrs of the band from the email that was given on Unsigned.com

Mock-up of digipak

Mock-up of advert

• Layout - The layout of my advert will be simple and visually apealing by the use of colour and information.
• Colour -  I have desided to make the theme colours for my advert light blue and pale yellow. 
• Image - I will have pictures of the filming and a image of front of the digipak.
• Font - The digipak will have readable font, as I want the audience to have a good understanding of the name of the band, the album and the information about digipak.

Including:

• Name of Band and album
• Digipak front cover
• Digipak information
• Release date
• Buying locations

Shooting schedule

Before filming the rooms have to be arranged to the story board and planned specification.
Times of filming			(While shooting the music video I will be taking pictures for the DigiPak and website.)
From		To	Information about shooting
Day 1 - 1 actor/performer
12:00		14:00	Shooting inside house (Waking up, looking out the window and going out.
14:00		15:00	Shooting in the park (waking along looking round –different shots)
Day 2 - 2 actor/performer
12:00	14:00		Filming in a room with instruments and coloured lights. (Shots of instruments and lip-syncing.
Day 1: Location - House and park  Props needed - Alarm clock  and laptop computer Equipment needed - Camera, tripod, lighting    Day 2: Location - A room black walls.  Props needed - guitar, drum kit, microphone.  Equipment needed - Lights with coloured film, camera, tripod

Camera angle positions for performance video

This is a birdseye view plan for my room, the location for the start of the video and the performance intersectons.

This plan shows the placements of the performer, props and initial camera position.

Actor 2 at the top of the plan is holding a acustic guitar and Actor 1 is infront of a microphone.

The Camera position is an indication of where I am going to film from but the positioning is changing after each take of performance.












Low Angles: Low angles are going to be used in the video as this gives the video have a dynamic edge and low angles give the performers dominance over the scene.

High Angles: High angles are going to be used to used occasionally in the video this gives an effect to the audience to have alternate shots, this netralises the shots between low and high.

Pan: Pans are not going to be used too much in this video as its not common in music videos but in indie video used a bit.

Close-ups: Close-ups of the lead performer is going to be used as he is lip-sincing and moving his head.

Long-shots: Used in indie videos but in the perforamnce scene of my video will not be used for too long in the video but changing with mid-shots and back would be a good effect seen in many music videos

Location permission

Permission from the owner of the property to use the location to film there.

Risk Assessment

Risk?	Who/ What is at risk?	Risk Level?	Prevent risk?
Breaking camera whist filming.	Camera		Use the handle on the camera and be careful when using the tripod. When filming and it starts raining cover the camera and stop filming if necessary.
Breaking the tripod	Tripod		Carrying the tripod when in the case carefully and when using the tripod hold on if it is windy.
Stolen Equipment	The equipment		Keep the equipment close and keep in a safe place.
Damaging equipment	Instruments		Us e the equipment softly and use with care.
Crossing road	Actors		When filming on the street being careful of cars.

Risk Level:

	Low
	Medium
	High

Props preperation

-Guitar

The use of the guitar suggests the the actor is playing the song.  













-Microphone
Suggests the singer is actally performing










-Alarm Clock
The use of the alarm clock is significant as it suggests that the person needs to wake up for some reason.





-Bed
Suggests its morning.

Costume planning

The bands costumes are common for a indie band as it is smart and casual. The effect is to show there it is a professional band, that know how to perform live. The costumes create a effect of changing the scenes as the other actor and the band.

The person that is in the main parts of the video will be wearing a hoodie, jeans and trainers, this is common wear for teenagers and young adults. The effect I want to create is a sense of loneliness and show that the performer is acually thinking about things. The use of the casual wear also seperates from the band.  

Actor / Performer decisions

I will have 2 actors each doing something different

Actor 1- Tom H is going to walk through a field, lip syncing a bit.


Actor 1- Singing/ Lip-syncing

Actors 2-  Joe Mayo is going to play the acustic guitar/ also lip sincing in parts



- The actor have to know the lyrics and know how to perform.

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Storyboard

*Animatic storyboard*

• Include voice over to explain ideas.

Treatment

500 words that gives a clear outline of narritive/performance ideas.

Thought Mapping

Preliminary Task

Task outline and real video
The Preliminary task involved reconstructing 1 minute and 20 seconds of the Britney Spears music video 'Hit me Baby (One More Time)'. Shot for shot filmed in college for two weeks, before the research from the music video project started. The entire class had to be involved in the different parts of recreating this music video in front of the camera acting (dancing and lip- syncing and behind the the lens (filming and directing).

The task involved:

• Lip Syncing
• Learning Dance Routine
• Getting Costumes
• Having Props
• Filming different shot

This is the video from YouTube.com of the Britney Spears - Baby One More Time



Planning

For planning we needed to create a storyboard of each of the shots in the video, we did this by taking screen-shots of the Britney Spears video on YouTube and then paste it on a word document labeling the time of each shot. Also we needed to make a list of costumes and props needed for the part of the music video we created.

<<<< This are the sheets we created with the storyboard and some description at the side as in the time, what is happening and the type of shots.




Filming
For filming everyone in the class took part in the filming of the music video, filming a section each of the video. Some people filming parts of the dancing, the first scene and the sections in between in front of the lockers when lip-syncing. To film we had the song playing in the background from another room and the person filming was telling to start the music from the specific part.

Editing
For editing everyone had to be involved in producing the whole start 1 minute 20seconds , we are paired and each group go a 20 second section to edit to then be joined together. Editing involved joining and cropping the video clips and then planting them on the timeline and placing the actual sound to make the video in time, by looking at the actual video and matching the actions to the song.

(Below is a screenshot of editing the section in Adobe Premier)









My groups part of the editing (below)





Final Product

The final product is linked from the different groups come out well because the shots were almost accurate and the lip-syncing and the music synchronisation was accurate and was in time with the track.


(Above) This is the video from the final product.



My Contribution

Everyone in the class had to contribute in every stage of the task and I contributed in this task for the three parts of the production of the music video, some parts in front of the camera by lip-syncing in front of the lockers for two sections in between the dancing and was involved in the dancing section in the hallway and in the first part. Also I was involved in filming a part of the dancing scene in the hallway, I filmed in close-up, mid-shot and long-shot. At the start I was involved in some of the planning I was in charge of identifying the props and costumes we had to have to make the video look like the Britney Spears video.







This is the part of the film that I filmed


Evaluation

Overall I think that this starter task came out well, a part of the success of this prelim task is that we had to work as a team, with different members of the team had to be in charge of roles in the production and construction of the music video, this was effective as different input and for different members of the group as the locations and the lighting.
This small task was a good indication of the process of making a music video, like the stages and some of the conventions. And for me this was important as I did not know the differences between a thriller and a music video, as in the shots, the speed and duration and an indication of how many different shots.