P4 - Pre-Production planning

Treatment

Production Team

 As I joined into this group at a later date as originally I was going to work alone, I had to work out with the rest of my group what role I would play in it. Creating a music video will require us to take on a lot of roles. Most importantly, we will need actors to perform, someone to film the video, a person to set up the lights, an editor to edit our music video, a set designer, costume and makeup artist. We may also need a foley artist for any foley effects we may need or include in our music video for diegetic sound.

Faith's roles: Cinematographer, foley artist, joint editor

Liam's roles: Actor, costume and makeup artist, set designer, joint editor

My Role: Lighting, Cinematographer, help with editing (arranging footage)

Concept/idea:

For our music video choice we are using the song Nightmare by Set It Off to demonstrate our cinematography skills. We will look at using amplification with themes of narrative in our video. In the music video, our character is going to be running from their darker self through different nightmare sequences. The types of nightmares we will include are Running from a shadowy figure in a dark alleyway at night and being in school again. We will also include a prologue and epilogue to help enhance our storyline.

 

Target audience:

We are looking at targetting 13-25 year old explorers with our video. Pop-Punk used to be a very popular genre in the 2000's and although it is no longer as popular it has a solid fanbase within its community.

Distribution:

Due to globalisation and social media, we can distribute our music video quickly and globally through the internet. YouTube will be the main focus for our distribution, and we could distribute through other social media channels. Music videos can still be seen on the TV too.

 Genre:

The song Nightmare by Set It Off is in the pop punk music genre. Therefore, our music video will follow the genres of pop punk music videos. My Chemical Romance is a famous band in the genre. Some key parts of their videos is they wear dark clothing etc. They regularly desaturated the colours in their music videos especially their Black Parade music video. This fits the conventions of the emo/ pop-punk genre. In their I'm Not Okay music video, they used dark humour to entertain the audience.

 Themes/setting location:

One key thing alot of Emo/Pop punk videos do is they tend to have the band performing in a main location and they use various other locations as part of the story they tell. To start and end of the video will be set in a bedroom. The second scene location we will use an alleyway near Hungerhill School. The next scene will be based in college. Being back in school is a nightmare some people have. 

 Legal and ethical issues:

Copyright protects an artist's work (video, audio, graphics, books etc) from being used or copied without their permission. we will have to make sure that our music video isn't similar to others out there, so we do not infringe the copyright law. Libel is a false written statement and slander is a false spoken statement that can damage someone's reputation. We will not be slandering or being libel towards anyone. The victim of these damaging statements can sue them for it. Because our music video is going to contain some darker tones, we will need to be wary of the BBFC rating we give it. We will also need to create permission forms for the actors, so they agree to be in the music video.

Violence and promoting crimes (drugs, murder etc) is very unethical and children would not be allowed to watch this content. Discriminating against groups of people is also very unethical and wrong. We will need to be mindful of the violence ethical issue the most since we may contain a or reference to violence in our music video; this fits the conventions of the pop punk genre.

Production Schedule

Risk Assessment

Costume Item	Scene Used	Sourcing from
Cloak	All but both bedroom scenes	Classmate
Trad Goth Makeup	Choruses	Classmate
School clothing (white shirt, black trousers, black shoes, tie and maybe a blazer)	Lecture theatre and school scenes

Name of Prop	Scene Used	Sourcing From
Prop Knife	All but the opening scene	Classmate
Microphone and stand	Performance scenes	College
Tic Tacs	Opening scene	A local store

Video recording Recce

Prepared by		Faith Smith		Date				14.11.2022
Location Details		We are going to film in Doncaster UTC, hopefully Cast if we have permission and in an alleyway near Hungerhill School and in someone's bedroom. This adds up to two indoor and one outdoor scene.
Scene/Purpose of filming		In our music video, the character is going to be cycling through lots of nightmare scenarios. They will be in their bedroom to start with going to sleep. These are going to be walking through an alleyway by themselves, a school nightmare and a lip sync scene where the character sings to an empty crowd.
Site Contact Name			Doncaster UTC			Site Address			College Rd Doncaster  DN1 3BF
Contact telephone			01302 976515			Point of access			Front doors
Permissions			As we are students at DUTC, we will not need permission to film in an office there.			Availability			Our college can be busy at times so we will have to film when it is quiet such as lesson times. Also, if we cannot film in cast, we will use the lecture theatre for the lip sync scene which we may have to book.
Points of Interest						Suitability/Possible shots			Close ups, extreme close ups...
Safety Issues			Tripping down the stairs or because of equipment			Electricity Supply			We will have electricity from the plug sockets and if we decided to use batteries.
						Light			Sun from the windows and overhead electric lighting unless we decided to turn the lights off. We will use our own lighting too.
						Windows			There are some windows throughout DUTC.
						Noise			Other students talking, when the lessons change over and noise throughout the building since it can echo. This won't matter though since we won't need sound for our music video; our sound is the Nightmare song by Set It Off.

Here is our set design for Doncaster UTC and where we plan to layout our camera equipment when we start to film our product.

Site Contact Name		Sandall Beat Wood		Site Address		Doncaster
Contact telephone		N/A		Point of access		Gates
Permissions		N/A since it is a public location		Availability		24/7
Points of Interest		Woods		Suitability/Possible shots		Wide angle, establishing, medium, close ups, panning...
Safety Issues		Other people general safety, animals, items thrown in the woods, branches etc...		Electricity Supply		Batteries will be needed for the camera since there is no way we can charge them in the woods.
				Sunlight		From the sun.
				Windows		N/A
				Noise		Animals in the woods, trees, other people…

Story Boards

Shot List

Video type/ SD card Number	Shot type	Description	Quality/frame rate	Time code in	Time code out
MVI_9489	Establishing shot, panning	Forest. pans left, right, up and down to music beat.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:07	00:00:09
MVI_9494	High angle	Character walks.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:10	00:00:13
MVI_9496	Medium shot, pan left	Character looks scared and looks around.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:13	00:00:18
MVI_9497	Close up, pan shot	Someone taps the character's shoulder, and they turn around in fear.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:18	00:00:23
MVI_9498	Dutch angle. Medium shot	Character puts their hands on their head, they think they are losing their mind.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:24	00:00:28
MVI_9491	Establishing panning shot	Shows how there is no one else in the forest.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:29	00:00:32
MVI_9500	Ground level panning shot	Can see the character walking, view from the tree.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:32	00:00:35
MVI_9505	Medium camera shot, pan left	Character is getting really scared "Breathing gets faster"	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:35	00:00:43
MVI_9448	Pan up, close up shot	In theatre, pan from feet to face.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:43	00:00:48
MVI_9437	Medium camera shot	Character sings in theatre.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:48	00:01:15
MVI_9452	Medium camera shot	Character sings in theatre.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:00:48	00:01:15
MVI_9507	Close up, pan around subject	The character runs into shot, camera pans around them.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:15	00:01:26
MVI_9508	POV shot	Character looking at their hands.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:26	00:01:27
MVI_9509	Ground level shot	Character walks.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:27	00:01:29
MVI_9511	Medium camera shot	Character walks past tree to show transition of time.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:29	00:01:30
MVI_9512	Medium camera shot	Character walks past tree to show transition of time.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:30	00:01:33
MVI_9513	Full shot	Character falls to floor and screams in anger.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:33	00:01:37
MVI_9452	Medium shot	Character sings chorus.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:37	00:02:00
MVI_9441	Establishing shot, pan left	Shows empty seats in the theatre to show how alone the character feels.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:42	00:01:46
MVI_9453	Medium shot	Character sings chorus.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:01:37	00:02:00
MVI_9518	Medium shot	Character feels weak.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:00	00:02:05
MVI_9519	POV shot	Character is looking towards the floor.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:05	00:02:09
MVI_9522	Medium	Character plunges to the ground.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:09	00:02:12
MVI_9520	POV shot	Falls to ground.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:11	00:02:12
MVI_9524	Close up shot	Reaches above for a way out.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:12	00:02:15
MVI_9514	Spinning pan POV shot	The trees spinning.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:15	00:02:17
MVI_9526	Medium shot	Character realises that it isn’t their time to die.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:17	00:02:22
MVI_9528	Medium still shot	Character keeps trying to escape the forest but ends up back in the same spot.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:22	00:02:25
MVI_9529	Full camera shot, zoom in	Character gives up and lays on the floor	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:25	00:02:34
MVI_9457	Medium camera shot	Character sits on stairs and sings the chorus.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:34	00:02:45
MVI_9456	Medium camera shot	Character sits on stairs and sings the chorus.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:34	00:02:45
MVI_9440	Medium camera shot, panning	Character sings the chorus.	1920 × 1080, 25.00 fps	00:02:45	00:03:21