Planning: Performance shoot

Me and partner have discussed when we are both available to shoot are performance part of are sequance. This involves filming a friend of ours DJing in his shed. This will give us good performance footage to input around are narrative. The date we have set for this is Sunday 11th of December as this is the closest date where me, my partner, and our DJ are free. In this day we aim to complete the shotlist previously shown in the blog.

Planning: Stage Direction

During our performance section, we will be filming a DJ, Sam Sawtell, who will be scratching and playing records. We will be filming this in our friends shed. In order to complete are set shot list, we have come up with stage directions. These are a list of where we will require the DJ to stand whilst filming our shots. We feel this will be necessary and highly useful whilst filming as it will help the shots be filmed without mistakes. However, we have also decided that we want Sam to act as normal when he DJs to an extent as we want the performance to look natural. A balance will therefore need to be produced.

Planning: Car Crash Storyboard

Recently me and my partner discussed the how we were going to go about filming the car crash scene to be shown at the end of are sequence. We thought that including this scene would give the sequence increased excitement for the viewer. We wanted to make the car crash convincing to the viewer even though we did not have access to things such as special effects or other various useful resources that professional media institutions who create music videos may have access too. Nevertheless, me and my partner put together a storyboard for the scene which sets out are plan on how to film and edit the car crash scene with the resources available.

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.

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

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.