Even More Planning....

Mood board

Create moodboards to help visualize the thought process. Consider here your research into similar products and wider media texts such as cinema, fashion and art photography.

Make sure you consider the representation of your actors/artist and Gramsci's hegemony. Are you going to follow gender stereotypes or are you going to challenge the representation of hegemonic gender in music?

For this you could use glogster.

Shooting Script (evidence of drafting is required)

You must create a shooting script for your video. Shooting scripts are scripts used during production to shoot the video. They are written with much more detailed than scripts and may include, among other things, scene numbers, editing transitions, and camera angles and movements.

A shooting schedule cannot just say “filming park scenes”.  It must be broken up into particular shots you know you want to get.  It will normally include the day, time, shot description, location, people involved.  You could organise this in a table and then upload it to your blog.  It might involve something like this (although obviously yours will be much longer!):

DAY / TIME	LOCATON	SHOT DESCRIPTION	PEOPLE NEEDED
Tuesday 4th October AM	Exterior - Park	Long shot of lead singer running through park	Lead singer, all crew
		Long shots of lead singer singing whilst sitting on park bench
		Close Ups of lead singer singing in park on bench
Tuesday 4th October PM	Interior – Teenage bedroom	Tracking shot over messy bedroom floor	Lead Singer plus teenager girl
		Medium Shot of teenage girl lying on bed
		Long shot of lead singer singing to teenage girl on bed

Organisation of Actors

As for your AS C/W you need to show you have organised your actors. Here you can create a call sheet/diary of when they are required. It is always nice to have photos of your actors too.

Also write a detailed crew list explaining who will be involved with your filming and what jobs / tasks they will be responsible for throughout the process of production and editing.

Organisation of Costumes

This should not only show your chosen costumes but it should also justify why they are appropriate, remember to reflect on your genre. Remember you will probably need more than one set of clothing for each scene. Try to be creative; think about using images and/or short sequences with the characters in costume and a verbal explanation.

Organisation of Props

This needs to show you have considered genre specific props and are organised generally for the shoot. This should again be creative with images and written justification of how they suit the genre/characters, help reflect the narrative. Make an extensive list of technical equipment you will need for both the production, and post production part of the process.  Equipment you might need is shown below.  Choose the relevant items, plus any others you might need and make the list, for each one saying what you will use it for:

Digital Video Cameras

Tripods

Microphones

Dolly

Lighting

Digital Audio Recorder

Green Screen

Stands

CD Player / Other audio player

Mobile Phones

Apple Mac computer

Stills Cameras

Location Recce

Try to approach this creatively. You should include photographs of locations considered as well as the chosen ones, again remember that this is a music video and so more than one location is bound to be needed. Here you should also consider access to electricity/lighting demands etc. A written justification is also appropriate here.

•           Pictures / Video clips of the locations from different angles

•           Information about why you want to use it as a location and for what scenes

•           Information about access difficulties, restrictions, rules for using each location (eg lack of power points, lots of members of the public, dangerous hazards etc)

•           Information about how you will overcome any of these problems or ensure against any danger / health & safety issues etc..

Drafting for ancillary tasks

You need to show you have developed your ideas. Gaining audience feedback here would also be effective and get you more marks! Remember these ancillary tasks need to look and behave like the real thing so don't try to challenge conventions.

REPRESENTATION IN YOUR VIDEO

For this entry you need to discuss how you plan on representing people / social groups within your music video.  Obviously only discuss the social groups that are relevant to your video.  Social groups might include: men, women, teens, children, adults, ethnic groups, different classes etc.  For this it might be helpful to remind yourself about how you discussed representation in TV Dramas at AS Level.  

Discus how you will use camera, mise-en-scene, editing and other elements to represent the following in your video:

·          Conventional representations (stereotypes)

·         Representations that challenge stereotypes

·         Positive and negative representations

·         How will these representations appeal to your audience or promote the artist?

MISE-EN-SCENE

For this entry you should discuss how you are planning on using mise-en-scene in your music video.  Remember that mise-en-scene includes costume, props, lighting, colour, location, make-up etc.  You could discuss how these elements will:

·          Attract, appeal to or entertain your audience

·         Represent your band / artist

·         Communicate the genre of your song

·         Communicate a narrative or message

·         Create a mood / atmosphere

It would wise to include pictures to illustrate your ideas.

FURTHER RESEARCH AND PLANNING IDEAS

On top of all of these compulsory research and planning tasks, you could choose to include more tasks to further demonstrate your skills.  Here are some ideas for other tasks you could include:

·         Auditions

·         Rehearsals

·         Lip sync practises

·         Release forms for actors  / extras

·         Health & Safety and Risk Assessment discussions / concerns / forms

·         Moodboards

·         Costume & Make up tests