Research and planning

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

Again & Again - The bird and the bee

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.

PinkPantheress - Mosquito

• Cuts between shots of a narrative and performance 
• direct address when performing 
• performance is lipsyncing

Mae Stephens - If We Ever Broke Up

• direct address when performing 
• performance is lipsyncing

Mikayla Geier - Paris

• direct address
• takes place outside
• lots of different outfits - shows time passing

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.

• The music video will be narrative focused with small segments of the artists performing throughout the video. The narrative will tell the story of an artist who is currently struggling to create anything meaningful and finds themselves going through the motions of life again & again, it will start in disequilibrium following them as they get up and go to their art studio during this sequence their will be multiple shots showing the logo of the shoe brand (e.g. close up of the shoe when walking). When they arrive they will be shown to be struggling with creating something and will also be shown to be doubting themselves and their ability to create something they can be proud of. During the chorus the music video will cut to a shot of both artists performing the song. The video will then repeat a similar situation to the previous one multiple times in quick succession showing the artist slowly overcome their problem culminating in them creating a piece that will serve as a title card to make the video reach the 3 minutes specified by the brief.

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). 

• (on paper)

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. 

• Settings - local areas (shows indie)
• Costume - feature vans shoes, casual outfits (indie)
• props - brushes, paint, canvases etc
• lighting - natural lighting

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.

• (on paper)