Aaron and Amar's talk.

Planning before shoot as much as you can. Making the location of the video go with the genre e.g hip hip - the streets or the ghetto.

Making the video different e.g film backwards.

The more different the video the more successful and memorable.

Making a timetable for your day so you can be organised. Making sure all locations are as close to you as possible.

Checking the location before filming, making sure there is enough room for everything you need to do.

Digital storyboard.

Blocking out your scenes (testing your scenes) BEFORE the filming day.

Think what cuts you could make in the editing process to help make it more interesting, there will always be advantages and disadvantages.

Having influences helps aid your own music video, have varied conventions.

If you want a location e.g Grafton Centre call up before hand to check for availiblity, or if you're veen allowed to shoot there.

FIRST 30 SECONDS CRUCIAL

Recce shots (location simular to our official location)

 

This is a similar location to what our official location is.

Mise en scene ideas

Costume.

We have decided that we should have a contrast in the costumes for out characters; in order to do this we have decided to use 'stereotypical' characters; and to use characters which would never normally talk to one another; again creating a complete contrast between the characters.

Character 1

Character 1 is going to seem the well spoken and intelligent character who has had a good education and also has a good job and in general has a very high quality of life. He/She will be dressed in extremely smart clothes perhaps a suit with shoes rather than trainers; the characters will perhaps have props such as a briefcase or handbag depending on the gender of the character. in general the character will seem like a stereotypical businessman/woman who is always tidy.


Character 2

Character 2 is the complete opposite to character 1 due to the fact that this character is going to be seen as a stereotypical 'Chav' who may be considered to live on a rough estate and to have no money and have a lower quality of life and not be able to afford the same things as character 1 can. Character 2 will be dressed in more casual clothes such as a tracksuit with high top trainers and be carrying an ipod and constantly texting.  This character will be seen to be very untidy and in a sense scruff.


Overall because there will be an extreme difference between the costumes of each character it makes the other seem more stereotypical. For example because character 1 is very well dressed it will make character 2 look scruffy and very uneducated in comparison to character 1. Creating the perfect comparison that we want to achieve.

Possible location.

   We feel that this would be a suitable location for part of the song as it's a more quiet stretch of pathway which would help make it easier to do stop put animation. As it also has a tall bare fence/wall which would help in adding small bits of stop put animation that have no relevance to the song, however we feel it would help maintain the audiences attention to the video, giving it a quirky edge that may be easily recognizable.

Second Option For Music Video