Music video

preliminary music video planning

Now complete the following tasks:

1) State the song and genre you have chosen for your music video.

Rap/Electronica, Social Realism 

2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your song or concept and watch them several times. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene.

-close ups to domesticity

-cuts from face to face

-bright, fun, colours, irony

-concept of them playing a game because they play mental games in the relationship

-black and white

-dancing

-simple back and forth editing of close up to mid shot

-spliced in with a movie narrative

-contrast between film and cher dancing because of colours, I want to use black and white

-whole video is made of close ups and extreme close ups

-destruction, matches tone of song, I could have a cut away shot of something getting destroyed

-instead of being edited to the beat, the shoe is moved to the beat

-the timeline of shots is not chronological

3) Write or edit your treatment just to include the 30-60 seconds you will make for this preliminary exercise.

scene 1: 

woman waking up in her bed, husband sleeps facing away, gets out of bed gently to not wake him, puts bathrobe on, goes to make a sandwich, takes plate into living room to watch news (aim to match lyrics TV to shot of TV), turns news on, sleeve moves slightly to show bruise/red marks while changing channel, different shots of her in the same place? to keep movement while showing she's static, passage of time

4) Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word to set out your shot list - you can find an example here. 

-medium shot of woman sleeping in bed 1

-extreme close up of eye opening 2        

-zoom out to her turning in bed gently 3

-shot from the side of her getting up 4

-close up of her sliding feet into slippers 5

-match on action of her turning 6

-shot of empty beer cans by bed and empty crisp packets 7

-long shot of her walking to door 8

-close up of her taking her bathrobe off the door 9

-match on action medium shot + putting it on 10

-close up on door handle being opened gently 11

-long shot of her leaving door 12

-pan to her walking down stairs 13

-bottom of stairs 14

-walk to kitchen 15

-close up of kitchen handle up close 16

-match on action of walking in 17

-camera in the fridge as she opens it 18

-match on action of her bringing pate out 19

-camera in bread bin shot 20

-extreme close up of butter being spread 21

-extreme close up of pate being spread 22

-walking to cupboard 23

-getting plate out of cupboard shot in cupboard 24

-bringing plate back to sandwich POV 25

-close up of putting sandwich on plate 26

-close up of chair being pulled out 27

-zoom out of hand to sitting down 28

-opening laptop POV 29

-close up of typing in BBC news 30

5) Plan your mise-en-scene: what iconography are you including to ensure your audience understands the genre or narrative? Plan your cast, costume, make-up, props, lighting and setting. For this preliminary task, use just one location to keep it simple.

cast: 

       Mum and Stepdad

Costume: 

        Stepdad- Bed sheet

            mum-Primark Pyjamas and a bath robe

Make up: 

        Bruising and red marks (eye shadow could be used)

Props: 

         Sandwich stuff (Polish ingredients, contrasting with BBC news), laptop

lighting: 

          in the dark, so yellow domestic lighting

setting:

          In my house, Bedroom, stairs, kitchen, living room (?)