Group: First Shoot Plan

Having experienced some problems with our location over our half-term holiday, we are unable to start filming next week. Having had an idea about how to create more action and filler shots, we have decided to include some flashback shots of our protagonist being bullied as a child, or suffering some problems with his parents. In these shots, we will make sure that something sentimental is shown in the shot, such as the boy holding a teddy bear, which we then be shown being destroyed i.e. burnt or something  similar to that effect.

We will show this as POV shots which we will project into the room we are filming in, and shoot our protagonist as if he is watching them. Due to this location problem, we have decided to shoot all of our 'outside' footage, i.e. all of the shots not in the dark room, during half term to make sure we can start our production process.

Group: Location Reccie

For our production, we want to create a simple, symbolic atmosphere which we think would be appropriate for our concept. Having decided this, filming in a studio would be best suited for us. We then took some practise shots in this drama studio to give us an idea of some of the angles and distances we could use in our music video.

We want to create a whole black space, but as the drama studio we are going to use is only partially black, we will have our lighting facing the black wall; therefore when the camera pans around the artist's head, all the camera will show is a silhouette with the background obscured by bright lights.

Group: Concept Development

Today we were working on our storyboard and animatic as part of our planning process for out music video. Below are some examples of our initial moodboard drawings.
 

Group: Storyboard

Group: Pitch

 

Constructive Criticism:

• incorporating lots of filler/meat shots is a necessity to make sure that our music video is full of action and is exciting to watch multiple times
• uncertainty of filling the song time, so more action shots are needed such as the smashing of glass etc
• more location reccies should be carried out due to the studio we wanted to use possibly being too small to fit our intended cast size into

• however, when we presented our pitch to our teachers and peers, they all agreed after listening to our chosen song that our concept fully matches the audio

Group: Concept Development

• first shot: split screen with one screen showing a male teenager sat on the floor of a dark room on his own and the other screen showing the female singer standing in the same room with a microphone. The first narrative of the boy is in a coloured gradient, whereas the female is shown in greyscale. Atmospheric lighting e.g. spotlight and candles.
• The word 'nightcall' shows up over the top of the split screen.
• As the lyrics begin, the female is shown in the same room on her own singing the lyrics, as the narrative switches between her and the boy.

Issues:

• actors - getting people to volunteer to act/perform is difficult, and arranging times where everyone involved including cast and crew are available to film at one time is also a difficult task
• location - finding the 'perfect' location is difficult as the blacked-out drama studio may not be suitable enough to fit all of our cast in, so we may have to choose another location i.e. a barn or something similar
• action - our concept is simple yet symbollic, which means that the visuals may lack in action, so we may need to include an extra narrative, or include more of a back-story to the boy