Rough plan for music video

 

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-Sophie

Magazine advert shot list

Here is the shot list for our magazine advert, we have made this so we know what shots we need to get, where we need to take them and what equipment we need.  One only have one location but it will still save us a lot of time and will mean we are more organised on the day of the shoot.


Tom

Digipak shot list

Here is the shot list for our digipak, we have made this so we know what shots we need to get, where we need to take them and what equipment we need. Due to the fact that we have a few different locations it will save us a lot of time and will mean we are more organised on the day of the shoot.

Tom

Our rough digipak ideas

This is my rough digipak for our music video. (I'm pretty sure I did the whole thing upside down?) But anyway, there is a picture of Ben lying in bed, which links to the music video, there are lyrics of the song so the target audience can read them if they want to. There is a bio that Ben would've written about himself so that the people who buy the single can get to know him better. The theme of this digipak is dark/black to match the feelings that Ben is feeling about his guilt which is why I have shaded the digipak to show the black background.

Sophie

This is the rough version of my digipak idea for the group. In have based it the shots of in the film took while filming. In the bottom half of the digipak I have made 3 separate pictures/frames. One is a artist profile and the other is the front cover which is based on a sunset in one of the film locations. The other half is 3 sections that make up one picture. This half is of the car driving past the field. I have decided to put song lyrics on one of the sections.

Michael

This is my rough digipak idea. I decided to feature the lyrics on the back to interest the audience. I have also included an artist profile to interest anyone who wants to learn more about Ben. The artist profile would also be effective later on in the artist's career as fans could test their knowledge. I decided to feature the car on the front cover as, in the music video, Ben is seen driving in it very often. This helps to link the digipak with the music video, creating a sense of synergy.

Nathan

This is my rough digipak idea. I have also decided to feature the lyrics on the back to interest the audience. I have included a profile about the artist to let people know about bens background.  I decided to feature just the artist on the front cover, this is the same type and style of shot as the same repeating shot in our music video, This too helps to link the digipak with the music video, creating a sense of synergy.

 Tom

Music Video Draft 6 with Feedback

Mr Bluck:

The time lapse sky shot is probably over-used, maybe use it just to signify time passing without returning to it. 

At the beginning when the artist is in bed, he is asleep... do you have a shot of him lying with his eyes open? The track is called 'Insomnia' and he is fast asleep.

There is a bit of confusion when this cuts to the flashback as it isn't particularly clear that this is a dream? Is it a dream? Or is it a memory? If the denouement is that he can finally sleep after making amends then there needs to be a clearer visual definition between the present and the past. 

Lighting

When filming our music video, we knew we would have to pay close attention to the lighting to properly connote the feelings and over all look we wanted for our music video.

For example, as in our questionnaire, we found that people associate the colour blue with sadness, guilt, night time etc.. Therefore, we decided to light and colour grade many of the shots with a blue/green tint, in order to connote this to the audience.

We also decided to have Ben wearing a blue tie when he lip syncs. The idea to have him wear a tie was originally a solution to a problem where his body could not be seen at all as he was wearing a black shirt against a black background. We did this to avoid having Ben looking like a floating head which would have been very distracting throughout the music video and may not have made much sense from a narrative stand point.


We decided to light Ben's face during the lipsyncing section the way we did because we wanted to connote the difference between the carefree version of himself before the incident (light side of the face) and the guilty side (the dark side).

When we filmed the shot where Ben walks back into his house after driving home in the evening, it was too dark to actually see what we were recording with out raising the IOS on the camera extremely high causing unwanted noise in the picture. Therefore, we decided to light the scene with two 1000w soft boxes with the diffusion panels removed for maximum light and one 300 LED panel which we used to help us light the car and act like a street light. We created this effect by putting the LED panel on a 3meter boom pole to get the needed height and we added a tungsten coloured jell in order to make the effect realistic.




Nathan and Tom

Our Favourite music videos and Why?

I have chosen this music video to call my favourite because the attention to detail is insanely good. The production cost was millions and this shows in the video. The narrative is of female badass assassins that completes stunts. It's a major girl power video which is why it is one of my favourites, Taylor has also never created a video as "harsh" as this before as her previous ones are love stories which is refreshing.

Sophie

 

I have chosen this music video because the storyline is very interesting. The narrative is about a woman who craves attention and love who threatens to commit suicide in order to get attention. It is revealed at the end of the music video that she does this repeatedly.

 

Nathan











I have chosen this music video for a few reasons. I like this video as it is a literal representation of the lyrics. Each image shown with in the music video represents the lyrics, however not all are obverse, some you have to look closer and the shot in order to work out the connection.

Tom




I have chosen this music video since I like the focus on both narrative and live performance has it has a good mix of between the two, this is due to the fact the screen time of each is similar and therefore the music video doesn't get repetitive. Additionally the video looks like it has a good production value and the cutaways keep the video fresh.

Michael



Tom, Mike, Sophie and Nathan