Planning: Locations for shoot (narrative)

Me and my partner have now decided on locations at which we will film the narrative part of the music video we will make. The first location is my own bedroom. We chose this location firstly as it fitted with our narrative, it offered a reasonably large room so we are not limited in the shots we want to film (ie. could not film a mid/ long shot in small room) and also it offered sufficient lighting.
The second main location we will be using is one located along a motorway. We feel when dark we will be able to produce some good shots filming the motorway lights. A birds eye view is of this location is provided below.

Research: Analysis of music video Skream - Listenin' To The Records On My Wall

This music video who was released in 2010 by Tempa Records / Blink Productions and directed by David Wilson explores the formulation of the Garden of Eden and re imagines the creation of Adam and Eve.
At 0:35 in the video until 0:45, the video shows 'Adam' rolling around as if restless. The angles and cinematography used in this section has given us ideas on how to film our character waking up restlessly in our music video.

Planning: Car Crash Scene

In our music video for Skream - Where You Should Be, we have decided to include a car crash. This will add excitement to our narrative giving it a twist. Me and partner have been discussing possible ways in which we could film and edit this sequence in a way that looks realistic but would also be exciting to watch. The clip we found which was produced by students at Syracuse University, New York.




This clip is somewhat similar to how we plan to to film our driving scene, as a POV shot of the person driving. The fast cuts back and forth just before the crash build up tension and finish with a cut to black when the crash occurs. We like the idea of cutting to black when we show the car crash as it leaves it to the imagination. Also, we would be unable to film and input into our video a realistic car crash that would be believable as we are limited in recourse's to do this. This video that we have found on the video hosting website you tube has made us think about our car crash scene and was useful in helping us generate ideas.

Planning: Storyboard (Narrative)

The storyboard shown below outlines what we plan our narrative part of our music video to look like. We have also included extra information such as the type of shot we will use and also the amount of time each shot will be held for. This will be useful when filming and editing but is only an outline and not set in stone.

Planning: Item List

Me and my partner have produced an item list which we will be including in our music video. The Item list is as follows:

Item List (Narrative)

-Bed

-White Sheets

-White Pillow

-Clothes (Jeans, Sweatshirt, T-shirt, Trainers)

-Black Fiat Punto (keys)

-Rizla etc

-Lighter

-Phone

Item List (Performance)

-Records

-Decks

-iMac

-Headphones

-Speakers

-Keyboard

-Mouse

Planning: Shotlist

Me and my partner have produced a shot list which includes every shot that we want to film for our music video. It has helped us organise our ideas and will help us when we film. The list is as follows:

Producer Performance

-Close up of record being put on decks

-Close up of producer on mac – reason

-Close up of mac screen

-Close up producer on mic

-Mid Shot of producer on Mac

-Mid shot of producer on decks

-Mid Shot of producer

-Mid shot/side on of vocalist singing

-Mid shot of producer

Narrative

-Arial shot down on performer singing

-Arial shot of them tossing and turning

-Close up/side on of performer singing

-Mid shot of performer throwing clothes on

-Long shot of performer walking down stairs

-Close up of performer putting shoes on

-Long shot from outside of performer leaving house

-Close up of performer opening car door

-Extreme close up of key tuning in ignition

-POV of driver shot throughout journey

-Long shot of car parking up

-Over the shoulder shot of performer sitting in car performing lyrics

-Close up of performer rolling up

-Long shot of traffic on motorway

-Close up of performer performing lyrics

-Close up of performer lighting up

-Mid shot of performer smoking/performing lyrics

-Long shot of car against background of motorway

-Close up of receiving text

-Long shot of car driving off

-POV driving

-POV crash

Research: Joker - On My Mind music video analysis

I am analysing this music video as it fits into the same genre as the song that me and a peer are creating a music video for Where You Should Be By Skream. The music video contains both narrative and performance elements which is what we plan to do in our music video. Here is the music video streamed from youtube:

The cinematography and camera movement used in the sequence is effective. Throughout the sequence various camera movements are used when the singer is shown lip syncing the track. This keeps the viewer interested and makes the sequence more watchable. For example, at 0:41 in the video the camera slowly zooms out and also at 1:24 in the video the camera is shown tracking right. In our music video, I would like to input camera movement during the lip syncing to make the sequence more exciting as done in this video.

Research: Music Video Practice

Recently me and a group of 5 others filmed a live band the 'Strangers' in the hope of creating a brief live performance of their song 'In Chaos'. We chose to give each of us a task during the filming process. We had a director who told the rest of us where to film and move during the filming of the live performance. We then had someone filming high angle shots, they were situated on a balcony above the performance. We had someone filming the band at mid to long shots. We had someone filming close up shots of the singer and drummer and then my task of filming mid to close side on shots of the singer and keyboardist. This worked out well and the director done a good job at keeping the camera men out of each others shots.

Research: Chase & Status - Hitz ft. Tinie Tempah

After researching various music videos, me and partner came across the Chase & Status music video of the song Hitz ft. Tinie Tempah. This video is one of a similar genre as our music video as they both fall in to the category  In the music video the artists are shown travelling to the studio where the is song is supposedly being recorded. We have decided to incorporate this narrative into our music video. Our music video will therefore show our artist travelling to a studio and then be filmed recording the vocals which will sync in to the track. Here is the music video Chase & Status - Hitz ft. Tinie Tempah...

For this we would therefore need to to find a suitable studio where we would be able to film. At the moment me and my partner have come up with 2 possible places. Option 1 is a studio at a college called Cambridge Regional Collage located. Option 2 is a studio located locally in Saffron Walden at a youth centre. We will make are decision on the basis of the relevant availability of the studios and also to the extent at which the studios meet our requirements.

Research: 30 Second edit for Golden Earring - Radar Love

Me and my partner recently embarked on producing a 30 second edit of the dutch rock band Golden Earring song Radar Love. We decided only to input performance only into the edit and leave out narrative. This would help us practice syncing instruments in tempo with the song and also the difficult task of lip syncing.
Here is he video completed:


Me and my partner are pleased at how this has turned out. Although it does not conform to the standard conventions of a rock music video we thought it offered a more modern alternative.
Making this music video was beneficial as it helped me practice editing on Final Cut, it allowed me to play around with layering particular shots on one another as seen in the sequence, it allowed me to practice lip syncing to a song and it allowed me to practice using a new video camera which was previously unfamiliar too me. Everything I have learnt is good practice for the creation of my final music video.

Planning: Label Permission

Recently me and my partner emailed the independent record label Tempa asking permission to produce a music video for a song that was released by them called Where You Should Be by Skream. The song was released in 2010 and was taken from the album Outside The Box. It was necessary to do this because of copyright issues that are present. We found the email address on the record labels website and sent them the email below making it clear that are use of the track would be for primarily for academic, non-commercial purposes. We will now wait for a reply which will hopefully allow us to use the track.