Planning; Props

Props can be very important to any video if they are used in a good way.

For my music video, I am doing a break up video so I believe the use of a mobile phone could help. I could have the male character texting or calling the female character, as I feel this may be able to help the point of the story come across better to the audience. I believe that a mobile phone would be a good prop to use in my music video because it is a common thing that people use, so it will come across to the target audience.

Planning; Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is a very important part of planning.

Costume;
The costume, as previously mentioned, will be a casual look. This will include the artist wearing jeans, a casual t-shirt and jeans. The casual look will be taken for the female character as well, as this is how I want both characters to look.

Props;
I haven't got any confirmed ideas about any props, but I have thought about using a mobile phone. This would be for the male character to text the female character.

What I will have done by Tuesday 21st January

By next Tuesday I will have done the mise-en-scene for my music video

Planning; Storyboard

As a class we were asked to create a storyboard for our music video. This will show the following things;

• It will show what number the shot is. So this means that it will show the shot order, and whether it is the first or last shot for example.
• It will show the location of the shot, for example a park.
• It will show what shot it will be, for example a mid shot.
• It will show the camera angle or the camera movement, so for example tracking.
• It will include drawing of what will be happening in the shot, drawn by myself.
• Finally, it will say what will be happening in the shot, so for example saying that the actor is miming the song.

Below are images of my storyboard.

Planning; Costume

I have 2 characters in total. One is a male character and the other is female. Costume is very important as everything has to fit with the artist's genre, which in my case is soul/r&b.

Male;
The male actor will be wearing jeans, coat and trainers throughout the majority of my music video. I will be going for a casual look as I believe it ties in with the music genre. I wouldn't go for a tracksuit because that may be interpreted to fit with the rap sort of genre, so it would be important to get this right. At some points I may have indoor scene, so they would lose the trainers and a coat and would have socks and a casual t-shirt on. The male is the main character and will be portrayed as the artist, it is very important that his costume is sorted.

Female;
The female actor will be wearing around about the same thing. They will also be going for the casual look of jeans, coat and trainers. Similarly to the male character, when it goes to an indoor scene she will lose the trainers and coat for socks and a casual t-shirt. As the female isn't the main character and isn't the artist, her costume isn't as important.

Planning; Location

My plot is to be a relationship breakup, so I plan to use different locations that I can show the couple in and then show the male character in the same place by himself.

My first idea is a park;

KLV park- There is a park in Kettering Leisure Village that I feel will suit. There is a swing and a slide, which I will show them using looking happy, and then show him at looking sad. I feel this location will suit because a park is usually a happy place for people, which I feel will work well with my plot.
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Another idea is the field near this park, KLV;

Next to the park is a big field. I can show them leaving the park and just walking over to the park. I feel that this is a good idea because it can also show them looking happy here, and then show him looking sad.
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A third idea I had was inside a house;

I think that this is a good idea because it would show them inside, maybe watching TV, happy, laughing etc, and then he would be able to sit there by himself.
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Planning; My short edit of Adele- Rolling in the deep

Above is my short edit of Adele's song Rolling in the deep.