Over the next two weeks we will be both finalising our pre-production and doing our filming. Here's a reminder of the video we watched in class that might help with making a no-budget music video:
Music video pre-production: blog tasks
Create a blogpost called 'Music video pre-production'. You may want to look over the original AQA brief here.
Work through the following four tasks:
1) Create your music video treatment
2) Write your full shot list
Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film for your music video AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word or Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example here for a student film shot list. It makes sense to write your shot list by scene or location rather than a huge list of every shot in the music video in chronological order.
3) Plan your mise-en-scene
What iconography or mise-en-scene are you including to ensure your audience understands the music genre of your artist and song? Plan your cast/performers, costume, make-up, props, lighting and setting. This can be simply completed using your blog or Microsoft Word - the key aspect is to have planned all the critical details. Remember the mise-en-scene mnemonic: CLAMPS.
4) Write your shooting schedule
Plan a shooting schedule for your filming over the next two weeks. Include when, where, who is required and what shots you will complete at each time/location. Again, this can be on Word or Excel or you could simply use your blog. The most important thing is that you've planned it!
1) Create your music video treatment
A treatment is a like a script for a music video - it will give someone a very good idea of what the final product will look like. To write a treatment, you need to make sure you have the basic details for your music video. Remember - this will hopefully be the same as your preliminary exercise so you already have a good idea of what you will produce.
Artist and song you have chosen:
Two-minute section of song you will use:
Style of music video (narrative/performance etc.):
What will happen in your two minute music video:
If you want to take this further and write a professional music video treatment for your project, have a look at this example for Alt-J and Breezeblocks that we use for A Level Media.
2) Write your full shot list
Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film for your music video AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word or Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example here for a student film shot list. It makes sense to write your shot list by scene or location rather than a huge list of every shot in the music video in chronological order.
3) Plan your mise-en-scene
What iconography or mise-en-scene are you including to ensure your audience understands the music genre of your artist and song? Plan your cast/performers, costume, make-up, props, lighting and setting. This can be simply completed using your blog or Microsoft Word - the key aspect is to have planned all the critical details. Remember the mise-en-scene mnemonic: CLAMPS.
4) Write your shooting schedule
Plan a shooting schedule for your filming over the next two weeks. Include when, where, who is required and what shots you will complete at each time/location. Again, this can be on Word or Excel or you could simply use your blog. The most important thing is that you've planned it!
Deadline: on Google Classroom
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