Shooting schedule for ancillary.

Moodboard.

Hand drawn drafts for digipak

These are the drafts for our digipak and album advertisement. The front cover of our digipak will feature our artist facing the camera however she will be looking into the distance, the back cover will have overlapping polaroid photos and will have the names of the 10 songs from the album as well as the name of the production company 'Caroline Records'. The CD will be made to look like a polaroid camera which then links with the back cover. For the rest of the panels we will have photos that relate to themes present in our music video, for example the swings we will try to make it look like the swing is moving by taking several shots from a variety of angles. We also use the wave projector machine again to produce the waves which again links in with our water theme. For the last panel it will be our artist standing by a bench alone, these all relate to our music video as it emphasises her being isolated. The name of our album is 'Exposure' this links in with the photography theme.

For our album advertisement we will have our artist standing frontwards, holding a polaroid camera. This links in with our digipak.  

Song Permission.

Talent Release Forms.

These forms were signed by our group (the producers) and the talents that will appear in the video. These therefore show that we have their permission to film them and use that footage to create our music video. 

Location Permissions.

This shows an email our group sent to Empire Cinema asking if we could film there, as it is one of our locations.

This is application we needed to fill in order to be granted permission to film in the aquarium.

These forms are important as it shows that we can legally film there. 

Props.

This presentation lists the props that we will be using in our music video, such as bubbles, bath bombs, flowers and a skate board. These will all be used at certain locations throughout our music video and will create a more indie aesthetic. 

Shooting Schedule.

This is our shooting schedule, it has the dates of when we're supposed to film and what shots we plan to film. It also has information of who we're filming and what they will be wearing in that particular shot. The equipment that we will need to use is listed as well as the crew and the issues that may come about and how to avoid them.

Costume and Make Up.

Locations.

Record Labels

Animatic

This our animatic that we created, it shows all the shots and our ideas that we have for our music video. We will show this during our pitch and hopefully get some feedback on our plan.

Pitch

Feedback:

We received feedback after we delivered our pitch, for one of test shots we had Robyn standing in a dark room with a tiny light behind her to create a silhouette, it wasn't as bright as we hoped however we were directed to try use more lights in order to make the silhouette more defined and so you can see more than just the back of head. This will be something we experiment with when we begin filming.

Our animatic shows that we have quite a few split screen shots of both Robyn and her boyfriend lip synching in different locations. In order to be more creative we were told to challenge the conventional straight line and maybe consider using a horizontal split screen, this could help our video to be more interesting and different. 

One of the locations in our music video is a park and one of shots is Robyn and her boyfriend on a swing set we then cut to her alone. Again to be more creative and highlight that she is reminiscing and revisiting these past places, we could experiment with jump cutting for example when they are both swinging together, it could suddenly cut to her still swinging but this time she is alone. This creates clarity as it is more obvious she is remembering.

We plan to include a mirror shot when Robyn is singing into the mirror and the camera is behind her, to help relate to our target audience more we were instructed to experiment with mise en scene and possibly decorate around the mirror with photos of herself and friends and her boyfriend. This would therefore make it more pleasing and beautiful and the target audience will be able to relate more as they see her as just an ordinary girl who has gone through a break up. 

Concept Development

Reasons:

We chose our story line to based around a girl visiting the places she went with her boyfriend as we wanted to a small narrative, however we didn't want it to be prominent. As we chose to also flash back when she is at the certain locations, we wanted to be different and wanted an interesting idea therefore we decided to show the flashblacks in colour and the present time in black and white. This will therefore help to differentiate between the different times. 

For our props we chose to use items that are significant to the artist to show they have meaning and are of high importance to her. They are also able to be linked with the locations, for example we have a skate board at the skate park they use to go to, we also have photos of the two together these will be viewed in the comfort of her own home where she can be sentimental and sad.

The costumes we chose for the artists to wear are easily relatable for the target audience as they are generic and simple. We chose for them to be relatable as it can help them to sympathise and also picture themselves as the artist. Some of the costumes we have chosen include; ripped jeans, trainers, flannel shirts, bomber jackets and leather jackets.

The locations we have chosen again are also significant to the artists as they are places she visited with her boyfriend. We decided to do this so we could show them together and then Robyn on her own. We also chose places they visited to show she is remembering. For example, the park, skate park, the aquarium, cafe, cinema. 

For special effects we chose to use split screen, to show that they are no longer together it will also show them in different locations this will also highlight the fact they have broken up. Another special effect we decided to include is super imposition to link two different scenes and objects, in this case Robyn and Luca as they will both be lip synching. We will also be using black and white for the present time and colour for the flash backs- again this will help differentiate between the two different times. We made these decisions to be more experimental and creative, this is common of indie pop music videos as they tend to be alternative and experimental.

Roles

I have been chosen to be in charge of Mise en scene for our music video, therefore I need to make sure the costume and props are in the appropriate shots and are the best quality. 

Sophie has been chosen to be the director as well as in charge of lighting, therefore she will decide whether we will use high key or low key or chiascuro lighting in each shot and she always decides what she wants Ciara to do in each scene.

Mica has been chosen to be in charge of the camera and editing, this is because her editing skills are much stronger.

Ciara has been chosen to be the performer for the music video, she was the most confident and willing to be apart of the video and will play a very convincing.

We are all well suited for our roles and believe this will help us to achieve the highest grade possible.

Star Image

Annotation of Lyrics

The visual ideas we got from the lyrics include images of the performer walking alone as she reminisces.

Our ideas follow Goodwin's Amplification idea, this is because the video is not entirely visual and doesn't reflect the lyrics. However, it does follow a small narrative as the performer makes her way to the places her and her boyfriend went.  

The overall feel of our music video is addressing isolation as she visits these places but how she is not really alone because she has these memories that she can keep with her forever and always come back to them, even though she is no longer with her boyfriend. We wanted be creative and different by making the scenes where she is visiting the places in black and white and then leaving the flashbacks in colour. This therefore highlights to the audience that she is no longer with her boyfriend and is remembering.

Chosen Song.

We have chosen the song 'Shark'by 'Oh Wonder' who are a British Indie Pop band. We have chosen this song because it fits the Indie genre, which is our chosen genre. It has also allowed us to form a simple storyline from the lyrics and the feel of the song. Some of our ideas include:

• A girl reminiscing as she visits the places her and her lover used to go
• Using a lot of water imagery show that the love she has for this person is very suffocating and dangerous.