Changes made along the way

-I changed the narrative slightly from my original ideas to try make the idea simpler and to plan it out more so to get across my idea the the main person the songs about the 'lonely girl' to look like a horrible person and is a toxic friend by making it seem like the friendship in the song means nothing to her. I have done this because of my analysis of the lyrics in which it makes it seem like the girl is a liar and someone people don't want to be friends with.


 -This was my original timeline with the original narrative ideas which i later changed and made it a more simpler and easier to follow narrative.

-I originally just looked at locations that fit in with the genre but didn't think about what each location could be used for.

Risk Assesment

Magazine Advert Initial Ideas

-My first three sketches for my magazine advert each consits of the same colour scheme blue and white.

-I'm planning to create these in photoshop or paintshop pro if I decide to create these over the christmas holidays which will most likely happen. 

-I'm planning to use the same image in each of the idea just in different angles or postioned but it's mostly where the writing is or the postion that changes in these sketches.

Digipak Initial Ideas

-My original two Ideas for the digipak with a description of the color and positions of where i want things I have chose a basic template for the digipak although I will most likely end up changing this when I plan it out in Photoshop.

-I made my design quite unconventional by wanting to have an actual photograph on the front cover to stick with conventions however I want to either heavily edit the photo to look like a sketch or I will draw out an image instead which will be based off the photograph.

Timeline of music video

0:00
-Close up of drummer
-Extreme close up of bass pedal
-Pan out into close up
-Mid-shot of guitarist
-Extreme close up of guitar
0:12 (Singing starts)
-Mid shot of singer
-close up of singer
-Extreme close up of microphone
-Pan out to close-up (if possible)
0:18- (Narrative starts)
-Girl against the wall looking sad/ head hanging low- mid shot
-Pulling a photo out of her pocket -tilt down to pocket
-Looking at the photo (her and friend)- Over the shoulder shot
-Looking at the photo-Extreme close-up
0:24(narrative ends)
-Close up of singer
-Mid shot of singer
0:28(Narrative)
-Memory of (Black and White)
-Friends laughing- long shot
-Over the shoulder shot of 'lonely girls' face  looking disinterested
-Shot reverse shot- Other girl looking at lonely girl, lonely girl still looking away,and then other girl looking down
0:32
-mid shot of singer
-Close-up of singer
-Cuts to extreme close up of other instrument
0:35 (End of first verse)
0:35(Chorus Starts)
-Close up of singer
-mid shot of singer
-extreme close up of singer
0:40(Narrative)
-Back to girl against wall- Mid shot
-Tilt up of getting phone out of pocket- extreme close up
-extreme close up of scrolling through contacts and phoning friend
-close up of phone to ear
0:45(Narrative ends)
-Close up of singer
-Mid shot of singer
0:49(narrative start)
-Cut to other location and other girl- mid shot
-Extreme close up of phone ringing and her hanging up-
0:54(Narrative ends)
-Mid shot of singer
-close up of singer
0:55(End of Chorus)
-Mid shot of singer
-Close up of singer
-Long shot of singer(Different location?)
1:01 (second verse starts)
-Mid shot of singer
-Close up of singer
1:08(Narrative start)
-Memory(Black and white)
-Memory of lonely girl whispering something to other person - mid shot
-Close up of hand to ear (whispering)
-Pointing in the distance to other girl mid shot
- mid shot of lonely girl walking off
1:14(Narrative ends
-extreme close up of singer
-Close up of singer
-Mid shot of singer
1:18(Narrative start)
-other person walks to other girl- long shot
-other person explains what going on (pointing at lonely girl) -mid shot
-Close up of other girls face looking hurt
1:22(narrative ends)
-close up of singer
1:23(end of second verse)
1:23(chorus starts)
-Mid shot of singer (orignial location?)
-close up of singer
-Long shot of singer
1:34(Narrative starts)
-Other girl gets out the same photo- mid shot
-close up of girl looking at photo
-Extreme close up of photo
-Girl dropping photo- extreme close up
-Girl walking off - extreme close up of feet as she walks off
1:39(narrative ends)
-Mid shot of singer
-extreme close up of singer
-long shot of the singer
1:43 (chorus ends)
-mid shot of singer
-close up of singer
1:45(3rd verse)
-close up of singer
-Mid shot of singer
-Long shot of singer
1:55(Narrative starts)
-Memory of (Black and White)
-Extreme close up of feet- tilt up to girl catching up to lonely girl - other location
-close up of girl putting hand on lonely girls shoulder
-over the shoulder shot of lonely girl turning around
2:00 (narrative ends)
-close up of singer
-long shot of singer
2:04 (over you's- roughly two second gap between each one)(Narrative starts)
-starting and argument ( fades of shots of whispering and her being told)
-lonely girl shrugging and and starts to walk off - mid shot
-Close up of lonely girls face looking bored/ disintersted
2:10(narrative ends)
-close up of singer
-mid shot of singer
-long shot of singer
2:15(narrative starts)
-Other girl shouting at her ( fade shots of them laughing at the begining and then it fading quickly)
-Lonely girl walking off and other girl just standing there looking sad- long shot of lonely girl walking towards the camera focusing on other girl
2:20(narrative ends)
-Close up of singer
-Mid shot of singer
2:25 (3rd verse ends)
-long shot of singer
-mid shot of singer
2:28(chorus starts)
-close up of singer
-extreme close up of singer
-mid shot of singer
2:34(Narrative starts)
-lonely girl still looking at photo- mid shot
- Close up of photo again
-Ripping up the photo- extreme close up
-Slow motion of the pieces falling to the floor
2:39(Narrative ends)
-close up of singer
-extreme close up of singer
-mid shot of singer
-long shot of singer
2:49(chorus ends)
2:50 (Narrative starts)
-extreme close up of the pieces on the floor
-extreme close up of her feet walking away but stopping and turning back around and picking up the pieces
- Mid shot of girls face looking at the pieces and looking sad.
2:59(narrative ends)
-mid shot of the singer dropping the microphone
-long shot of the singer walking off- fades to black.
3:04(song ends)

-This is is plan I started off doing on the basis that i could get other people to do performance shots however as this might not be the case i switched halfway through to just shots of the singer(myself)  and if I can get people to do performance shots then I will add this in.
-The plan is also very basic and only important times are stated this is due to if I wanted to do a detailed shot list it may be a waste of time as I would most likely change it

-- After I completed my in detailed narrative shots i added them in taking out the narrative ideas i had in before as this idea is a lot better.

Song Lyrics Analysis

My analysis of the lyrics to the song Lonely Girl by Tonight Alive this gave me an understanding of the song which will help me when I plan as my original plan was to make the girl the main focus because her friends had left her and now looking into the lyrics the girl is to blame for being lonely which is something i'll keep in mind as to whether I want to use the intended meaning or my own meaning I've found to the lyrics.

Story Board

-A basic storyboard for the music video containing the main images and the caption of what is happening in each shot and any effect I hope to use.

-This incoperates the timeline I made and making it into a visual reference which is eaier to get across my idea.

Editing Plan

Photoshop:
Color Adjustments-
Whilst doing the magazine advert and the digipak I may want to edit the coloring slightly to make it a darker or lighter color I can do this by editing the color balance and using the quick selection tool to only color the part I want.
I also may want to change some of the images into black and white which can be done easily by going tinto adjustments and using the black and white filter this again can be used in a certain area by using the quick selection tool.

Basic Photo Editing-
It might also be a good idea to improve the quality of the photo by using the auto contrast and auto colouring tools to see if it makes the image any better. This can also be done manually if I want an image to be darker by changing the contrast.


Text-
I can edit the text by adding drop shadows and changing the colour overlays to create a sort of gradiented  colour scheme. I also want to try find a way to have a sort of outline around the text in a different colour but may have to fiddle about with Photoshop a bit more to do this.

Premier Pro-
Is the editing software I will use to create and edit the music video the effects and cuts I hope to achieve in this is;
Colour Adjustments-
I want to have part of the video in black and white and this is something I will do in the editing software on the of chance that I change my mind and want the colours to be normal.

Overlays-
I want to have several clips overlap each other in a faded way I don't currently know how to do this but I will have to find out because I really want to have this in my music video especially in the argument scene to make the narrative clearer.

Slow Motion-
To make something into slow motion you just have to change the speed of the clip which is something I know how to do from last year so it will make it easier when I want some of the clips in slow motion.

Narrative Shot Planning

This a a basic shot list I want to do for the narrative,

-Girl against the wall looking sad/ head hanging low- mid shot
-Pulling a photo out of her pocket -tilt down to pocket
-Looking at the photo (her and friend)- Over the shoulder shot
-Looking at the photo-Extreme close-up

-Memory of (Black and White)
-Friends laughing- long shot
-Over the shoulder shot of 'lonely girls' face  looking disinterested
-Shot reverse shot- Other girl looking at lonely girl, lonely girl still looking away,and then other girl looking down

-Back to girl against wall- Mid shot
-Tilt up of getting phone out of pocket- extreme close up
-extreme close up of scrolling through contacts and phoning friend
-close up of phone to ear
-Cut to other location and other girl- mid shot
-Extreme close up of phone ringing and her hanging up

-Memory(Black and white)
-Memory of lonely girl whispering something to other person - mid shot
-Close up of hand to ear (whispering)
-Pointing in the distance to other girl mid shot
- mid shot of lonely girl walking off
-other person walks to other girl- long shot
-other person explains what going on (pointing at lonely girl) -mid shot
-Close up of other girls face looking hurt

-Other girl gets out the same photo- mid shot
-close up of girl looking at photo
-Extreme close up of photo
-Girl dropping photo- extreme close up
-Girl walking off - extreme close up of feet as she walks off

-Memory of (Black and White)
-Extreme close up of feet- tilt up to girl catching up to lonely girl - other location
-close up of girl putting hand on lonely girls shoulder
-over the shoulder shot of lonely girl turning around
-starting and argument ( fades of shots of whispering and her being told)
-lonely girl shrugging and and starts to walk off - mid shot
-Close up of lonely girls face looking bored/ disintersted
-Other girl shouting at her ( fade shots of them laughing at the begining and then it fading quickly)
-Lonely girl walking off and other girl just standing there looking sad- long shot of lonely girl walking towards the camera focusing on other girl

-lonely girl still looking at photo- mid shot
- Close up of photo again
-Ripping up the photo- extreme close up
-Slow motion of the pieces falling to the floor
-extreme close up of the pieces on the floor
-extreme close up of her feet walking away but stopping and turning back around and picking up the pieces
- Mid shot of girls face looking at the pieces and looking sad.

Filming/Editing schedule

Filming and Editing Schedule

Contact with Band

Here is my email to Sony Music to request the use of their use of Tonight Alive's song.

Camera Movement

-I will take the videos again when I'm filming as these were just footage of the locations with some movements like pans in there.  I will take them again to show all the movements as it will be easier to do with a proper camera and a tripod.

-Movements I will Use;
Pans
Zooming in and probably out( or just moving the camera closer)
Tilts, down and up

- I probably won't be using many more camera movements than these due to me changing the angle of the shots and using cuts to change between angles rather than using proper filming movements as in the genre i'm looking at the arn't that many camera movements in the performance shots
-The narrative shots will probably use these movements more and will most likely use the tracking shot as well but will most likely just use these shots.

Props List

 -These are some spot lights I can borrow which will help with the performance shots if I want to control the lighting.
-These lights however will have to stay at locations inside or near a house to be able to plug the lights into electricity which is why the performance shot at the side of the house would be an ideal location to use these lights if needed.

-For the performance shots I have found a Guitar Hero microphone which the owner doesn't mind if it gets damaged or broken.
-This will help with making the performance shots look more professional and look better.
-The microphone only has the a guitar hero logo which will need to be kept out of shot luckily this logo is only on one side so shoulf be easy to hide.






-This is just a piece of grey fabric which can be used to cover things in a shot in which I only want to see ceratin things.
-Or it can be used to pin up and use as a sort of
plain background for any performance shots.










-The last prop which I havn't got a photo of yet as i'm yet to take the picture is the photo of the two girls in which the narrative is sort of based around, I have the use of glossy photograph paper to make the prop look that mushc more realistic and professional.

Costume Planning

 Having a look at some clothes I owned which corresponded with my original idea I came up with several stlye all fairly similar but diffeing slightly;

 The first idea is using a long plaid shirt and having a designed black vest top underneath,this is my favourite style and is the one I will most likely use, I also tied the shirt around my waist to see what that would look like and it looks fairly cool and fits with the genre and is what I will most likely do.

Another idea I had was to wear a sort of beanie hat but this didn't look as good as I wanted it to but is there as an option if I feel like I need to make the genre clearer.

 The other Idea I had was just to wear a plain black vest top but this didn't look nearly as good as using a desinged one did.

 The second idea I had was to move away from the shirt effect and go down a completly different route but looking at the pictures now I think I will definatly go for the shirt look.

The other costume choice I had to make was shoes as I may use long shots and I want the costume to look perfect so I found a couple of pairs of converse style shoes. I will most likely use the plain black ones on the left as they look better in genral as they're not as battered.

Locations

Location Initial Ideas

I want to go for a more quiet location which is fairly appriopiate for the genre .

The first location I found was an alleyway with a rounded wall at the end I thought this might be a cool idea as it's quit quiet and could look good.

In this genre when artists have a wall background it usually contains a lot of graffitti which this wall doesn't so may be a bit unconventional in that sense.

The second location I looked at was the top carpark at kingswood shopping centre I thought this idea could be very cool as i have seen music video where the setting is on a rooftop and you can see the city in the background and it looks fairly cool.

So I looked at this location as you could set up a good shot with a nice depth of field and won't drag too much attention from the peerformer.
The rusted railings also look quite cool and seem to be quite conventional so this may be a location I use.

Costume Initial Planning

Lookingc at female singers in this genre I came up with this sort of idea, it came from looking at Jenna McDougall the lead singer of Tonight Alive as she always has a more casual costume, which I have dervided to a plaid/checkered long sleeve shirt on top of a black tank top or a band t-shirt as it shows the sort of genre for the rest of the costume I chose to use skinny jeans preferably black as a lot of both male and female performers use them and also some converse styled shoes to fit in with the apparent trend of convereses in this genre.
For the make-up of the performer I chose some fairly basic eye maake-up dark eye-shadow, mascara and eye liner as females in this genre only really pay attention to thier eye make up and can be fairly light to very heavy, i'm choosing to go for the lighter side.

Moodboard of ideas

I created a moodboard of inital ideas I had about things like location, costume and the narrative I want to use.

Initial Ideas

My first ideas for my music video and my original chioce of song Lonely Girl by Tonight A live.