Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Video Planning

This was our planned concept, a narrative, of a girl going about her day to day activities while Cory follows he around playing his guitar, only we can see Cory, the girl cannot. At the end of the day she gets ready to go out with her boyfriend however he never turns up. 

However, the girls we had found to act in our music video cancelled on us last minute so we couldn't film it.

Our plan B was to do performance video of Cory and his band. First we needed to book a studio to film the band playing instruments and then a location where the band would just been seen chilling out together at a house or walking through some popular locations in London.The day we had chosen to film was the 22/12/13. I called up multiple studios in central London asking if they do bookings on Sunday, most of them were closing on Friday and weren't opening until after the new years. So we had to look away from Central London, I found a studio called Bonafied Studios in North London about 2 hours away from us which costs 120 pounds including all the instruments we needed for 6 hours. I explained to the woman that we are doing this for our media studies coursework and have little money and that we only want it for 3 hours. Luckily she was very understanding and put the price down to 60 pounds for us. 
We produced a rough blocked plan and a small story board highlighting the first few shots that we wanted to use

Blocked Plan
1)Shot of entering the studio Door
2)Close up shot of band Behind instruments
3)Close up shots of instruments-Amps, Guitar, Drum kit, Microphone
4)Out of focus shot of studio lights
5)Medium Shot of Guitarist
6)Side angle shot of guitarist.
7)Out of focus lights
8) Medium shot of Drummer
9)Medium shot of singer
10) Zoom into singer
11) Close of drummer hitting the cymbals
12) Close up of amplifier knobs being turned up
13)Medium shot of singer
14)Group shot of band
15)Medium shot of guitarist and singer
16)Fade out.

Story Board