Group 51 Anthony, Tash and Helen's Music Video Blog 2008/9: Shot List

Monday 15 September 2008

Shot List

We plan to film in one big sequence from start to finish. This is due to the fact that we can't film our end sequence without using footage from the previous shots for our final part.

To begin we will film the main girl character in the middle of a forest looking around confused and looking lost. She will then walk through to the chalk pits and the song will begin.

Then on the first "aye aye aye" we will have the main male character with a 360 degree shot with his face at the center of the shot. This will be relatively easy to perform and give a good surreal effect to the shot whilst in keeping with the upbeat tempo of the song.

We will film the words being mouthed the whole way through by the singer 3 times from different angles in different situations. This is to ensure that we have the actual words being sung and so we cut and edit the sequence for the different parts of the song. For example with the lyric, "burn, light up the sky" we can have the male singer mouthing the words surrounded by candles in a poor light to represent the "burn" and then pan upwards to the sky with a light effect, or have the camera looking up at the man and the candles and through to the sky. The singer will mouth the words in different locations one will be sitting on cliff singing.

On the lyric "pressure of a pound sign" we will have two bankers dressed up one of which is holding a giant pound sign to represent the lyric.

The next shot we will have a tent with people standing round and a sign with 'Glastonbury' then we will ave a thief turn up with a SWAG bag and have him steal it to represent the lyric of "stole your Glastonbury".

We will then have the male singer singing with a background of the chalk pits with some rocky parts and just a generally good background to create good lighting and give effect to the shot.

We are trying to create a really surreal look to this video so are going to have a lot of running around, and for the next shot we are going to have the main girl spinning around in confusion to help to achieve this surreal look.

On the next lyric "so burn, light up the sky" we will have the male singer surrounded by candles to help visually represent the lyric and get it across a lot more successfully.

Next we are going to have the two main characters dancing, ballroom style, for the "verbal song and dance" and as the lyric changes to "bleed into your guitar strings" we will have the man push her away and the shot pan to an emo dressed kid bleeding into a guitar with fake blood. This is a very strong visual representation of bleeding, and puts the lyrical message across very well.

At the end of the song we are going to have a panning out shot from the band that will then appear on the front of the newspaper with a point of view shot as the main girl walks out of the shop.

On the lyric "I'll see you in the morning" there is a "ding" at the end. This sounds just like an old shop bell so we decided that we are going to have the girl walking out of the shop on that noise and meet up with the main boy like they are boy friend and girlfriend and the whole thing was a dream.

For the last shot we will have them walking away and then repeat the end part of the song and on the last beats have their clothes change to the ones they were wearing in the whole video an then have them turn round and wink at the camera.

The middle of the song wil be filled with shots of singing by the male and general filler such as everyone running about etc.

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