Key Shots

We decided that in the time we had we would plan several key shots that we could potentially use. This was to give us a guidance on the day of just a few ideas that we could use. We will be adding a lot more shots when we go out and it will depend on the weather and the different locations we could use that could depend on what shots we use!

Just a few key shots we could use:

INTRO

Duration/  13 seconds

Description/ Camera pans around, various camera angles and shots. Just before end, Model enters. Rougghly 5 different shots.

Slugline/ Woods- Day

Camera Movement/Pan, Track, CU, LA , MS, LS

Figure Movement/ Shuffles feet through leaves.

Edits/ Cut edits.

Soundtrack/

-No Music at intro

-Diegetic sound of birds and running water.

-No Dialogue.

Shot 2

Duration/ 7 seconds

Description/ Leah moves feet through dried Autumn Leaves.

Slugline/ Woods - Day

Camera Movement/ HA Track along side feet.

Figure Movement/ Walking gently through leaves.

Edits/ Cut

Soundtrack/ "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/  Bare feet in Water

Slugline/  River - Day

Camera Movement/  Fixed HA MCU on feet in water.

Figure Movement/ No movement.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot “You go your way and I'll go min”

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ Holding hands and then release with the lyrics.

Slugline/  Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  CU using selective focusing on hand.

Figure Movement/ Release grip after 2 seconds.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot “And what better time than now”

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/  Pocket watch swinging around neck-

Slugline/  Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  MCU on chest

Figure Movement/ Walking

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ sat on chair on the other side of the river, facing the other way (enigma) Acoustice guitar propped up next to the chair.

Slugline/  Riverside - Day

Camera Movement/  LS fixed

Figure Movement/ Sat still, looking at pocket watch.

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ Umbrella dropped open upside down in the river and begins to drift down it.

Slugline/ Riverside - Day

Camera Movement/ Pan as the umbrella passes it then MS to LS as the umbrella gets further away

Figure Movement/ No figure

Edits/  Cut

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Key shot

Duration/ 4 seconds

Description/ silhouette of Leah’s head

Slugline/ Woods - Day

Camera Movement/  No movement, MCU LA.

Figure Movement/ No movement

Edits/  CUt

Soundtrack/  "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

Here we sketched out some ideas of the shots and how we wanted them to look;

 

Location

 When we made our first video we filmed a video just with nature shots in it. We decided that having the nature setting looked really effective and would be a great place to shot our actual video.

We first visited several locations that we thought could be good for the shoot but found that we thought the best place for it would be the place where we shot our preliminary task in Carrwood Woods in Bramhall which is just round the corner from my house.

 As it is Autumn time the leaves are turning golden and are falling off the trees, the atmosphere is quite cold and the woods are always empty, so when we visited to woods we knew it was the place we wanted to shoot and this would be the perfect location for the video. 

Here are a few images of the sorts of location we would be using

Our Character

Here is our character leah. Leah has been a best mate for many many years and we decided that she would be the perfect role for the part we needed. when we mentioned that we might need her for a model for our music video she was excited to get involved. This was very good for us as leah has had past modeling experiences meaning that we knew we could trust her and we knew she wouldnt be shy to do anything and wouldnt mess around. As you can see from the photo, Leah is a very pretty and photogenic girl meaning we would be getting some extra photo's of her to use for out ancilary products. You can also see that Leah dresses quite indie and the outfit she has is fairly vintage. This is good because it shows that she has the right fashion sence to match what we want on the video. We decided that we would let her chose her own outfit for the shoot, knowing she would dress in a vintage fashion, and this is what she wore. She came wearing a pair of high waisted jeans, converse allstar shoes, a cream jumper and a white blouse/cardigan, with a big fur jack and scalf. This is the perfect image we were looking for.

The Track

The Song that we will be using for our final video is is "What better place than here - Chris Barratt"

The lyrics are

"

It's not that easy being true to yourself
It's not that easy when you're getting older
It's not that easy being true to yourself
They grey hairs on your head in the mirror


You go your way and I'll go mine
What better place than here
And what better time than now


It's not that easy being true to yourself
You can't deny that you take advantage
It's not that easy being true to yourself
I gave you all I got, you wouldn't have it"

Preperation

Now we have finished all our research for our music promo video we are now practically reaqdy to shoot. We have booked our character Leah in for our shoot and now a shoot date of the 25/10/2010. As we managed to give Leah notice in advance it meant that we had the time to work out exactly what we would be doing on the day.

My friend has now sent us a draft of his song that we will be using. This means that we are now able to storyboard what our plan of action will be as we still have time before the shoot date so we are as prepared as we possibly can be. We will have to gather up our props and costumers for the day. From listening to the song and looking into the lyrics of it we got an idea of the perfect image that we wanted our character to have to fit in with the genre of the music.
The next step is the planning section!

Preliminary Video Analysis

Preliminary Video

Me and my partner decided that we would get out with the cameras to find ourselves a good location for our music promo video. We plan to have a character in the final music video we make, but unfortunately she was busy when we were venturing out. Even though we didnt have our character we decided whilst we were out that we would practice taking some shots that could look good and would help us think of more ideas when producing our final video. We ended up in Carrwood Woods in Bramhall and liked the locations that we found. Whilst we were out the weather was a bit unreliable but we managed to use it to our advantage and caught some good shots when practicing different camera angles and effects. Here is what we caught: