Preliminary exercise: Research and planning

Preliminary exercise: Research and planning

1) State the song you have chosen for your preliminary exercise.

I have chosen Panic attack by Dave for my preliminary exercise.

2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene.

Dave - Streatham 

https://youtu.be/mkMQNRYlVAQ?feature=shared

• Kaleidoscope edit effect at the beginning of the video & constant use in video through transitions
• Stereotypical rap clothes e.g. tracksuits 
• Locations set in the story of the music video e.g. streatham 

My story - Workrate

• Interview style music video 
• Flashbacks to important scenes and times
• Lots of zoom ins and cuts

Pozer - I’m Tryna

• Tour around the area he grew up / audience pleasure 
• Day in life of being a rapper
• Stereotypical clothes 
• Lyrics matching life

3) Write a short music video treatment for your extract (this is basically a script for your music video). You can find an example of a treatment here. If you are making your real coursework then feel free to use the treatment from your summer project.

Scene 1 - 2 people are waling on the street when they shouting in the distance and of the person in the group of 2 gets shot. This makes the person left alive run for his life.

Scene 2- the man runs into a bush to hide and the scene fades to black

Scene 3- the man is in his room feel upset that his friend is dead he eventually snaps out as a company has reached out to sponsor him and wanted hit to wear their shoes. This gives him the idea  and starts performing

 

scene 4 -performance element then the video ends after  

4) Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing (in a music video you will find you need FAR more shots than you think, particularly close-ups). These additional shots can be close-ups, alternative angles or something more creative. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word/Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example here (this is from narrative filmmaking but the same format can be used for any video project). 

Shot List - Preliminary Exercise

Shot No.	Shot	Filmed?
1	Wide shot/establishing shot of street & lamp, then zooms into characters
2	Over the shoulder (OTS) of mo hearing shouting from behind him.
3	shot of mo turning around to see the commotion
4	Close up of mo’s face in shock
5	Close up of obaida’s face looking angry
6	Medium shot of Obadiah running at mo
7	Wide shot of whole street withcharacters in background.
8	handheld or drone shot of mo running into a bush
9	Obadia loses track of mo, close up on his face in distress
10	mo accidentally makes too much noises and baits his location out  medium shot of Obadia’s realisation with bush in background
11	POV shot of Obadia dragging out mo from the bush and beating him

5) Plan your mise-en-scene: what iconography are you including to ensure your audience understands the genre and style of your artist? Plan your settings, costume, make-up, props and lighting.

Setting will be on a streeet in London with street lamps and costume the characters willlbe wearing tracksuits or Nike. Fake blood can be used as make up for mo. The lighting will be from the street lamps e.g. natural lighting. Props could be a bat in obaida’s hand. 

6) Plan a shooting schedule that will ensure everything is filmed by the deadline. Include when, where, who is required, planned equipment and any other aspects you need to arrange. 

The people who are required are mo and obaida as the main characters they may be some extras added later. Some equipment would be a bat. Other things i need to arrange is time of filming and days that ill film and editing.