Location date.

I've planned my location date. I have given my main characters and extra the time, location and what they need to bring (though this shouldn't be tricky as i'll provide most of the props and equiptment needed) through email. As i've mentioned before, as I know my actors and extras personally, it was really easy to contact them through email (I already had their email addresses) and i've recieved replies from all of my actors to say they can make it! I chose my particular date in accordance to the weather. The weather being a really important factor in my shooting as it will mainly be outside.

What's next?

With all my main planning needs addressed, I need to think about what comes next in terms of my music video project. Later on, I may play around with my storyboard pictures; possibly turning it into an animatic with my music song. However, I also have to think about my album/single cover including photo's for my cover, font styles and colours. To organise myself, I have compiled a list of the main needs at this moment in time.

• Location Dates (In progress)
• Shooting (In progress)
• Choosing my fonts for my album/single cover
• Choosing styles/colours
• Photography
• Animatic?
• Editing

Obviously, there will be more to come, but at present these are my main points that need to be covered.

My storyboard.

So far, I have covered almost all of my primary needs for planning including;

• Actors



• Location



• Prop Ideas



• Permission from Artist



• General themes for my music video.

However, to wrap everything up, I have created a storyboard in which I have taken pictures of the storyboard I drew (I have explained this in more detail in my powerpoint presentation) and explained the different styles, themes, shots, props, and characters I am looking for in my video. By doing this, I have shown myself and the readers of this blog a more clear idea of what I want my music video to turn out like.

My storyboard

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Actors.

My main actors will be Jamie Clarke and Natalie Clews

Jamie Clarke -

I chose Jamie because once again, he has some acting experience, participating in school plays and talent shows. Like all of these actors, Jamie is at the same sixth form as me, meaning he can be easily contacted, and I have known of him for a while.

Natalie Clews
Whilst Nat will probably not have a full on screen part, she will feature in props as the typical "girl next door", one to whom the boys are head over heels for. In this sense, she has both a "main part" an a part as an "extra". Nat is a close friend of mine meaning I can trust her fully and she can be easily contacted. easily contacted and trusted.

There may be others to take part in the project at a later date, and if so I will post accordingly.

Ideas about props.

Definition of "Prop"- "A theatrical property".
The chosen song for my video contains lyrics that have a lot of intertextuality to it and feature different mentions of certain things in pop culture. Because of this, I decided to annotate a sheet with the songs lyrics on, to get into perspective what kind of props would be needed in the making of my video. Throughout the lyrics, intertextuality is repeated in the form of pop culture in things such as "Eastenders", "Bridget Jones" and also in the form of everyday life, pertaining to the socio-realist theme (such as "Carrots"). Throughout the lyrics, I have generated ideas to both give a humourous feel to the video (in the form of props) and to link in with the intertextuality present in the lyrics of the song. For example, with the repition of "This is no Bridget Jones", I have taken into consideration the idea of anti Bridget Jones posters around my locations, giving a humourous feel whilst being "intertextual". Below, I have listed more ideas for props generated from the bands song lyrics.

"I've met someone that makes me feel seasick" - Here, I thought about the idea of throwing a sick looking product over the actors for comic effect.

"Whenever she looks I read the nearest paper, but I don't care about the soaps, no I don't care about the soaps.. Though I'm acting like i'm in an Eastenders episode" - This is my most crucial line, as it contains a large majority of intertextual ideas for me to create props. For this, I am considering your typical props, such as a newspaper. I will link the "soaps" and "Eastenders episode" lyrics together for my prop by creating a prop to do with the Eastenders soap, possibly a charicature or a puppet of a popular Eastenders character. This will hopefully add a humourous effect too.

"If this is a rom-com, kill the director" - Here, like the "Bridget Jones" idea, I was going to have anti romance or director posters put up, possibly of popular romance movies or directors such as Love Actually and Steven Spielberg.

"Carrots help us see much better in the dark" - Here, the obvious would be to add a vegetable like prop, my only problem being whether or not this would be too silly.

"This is my head and this is my spout" - The prop here, I thought could be associated with a teacup, here I could play around with silly, nursery tale style themes to emphasise the comic effect.

"So with the angst of a teenage band..." - To relate to the music, my idea was to pull out a guitar and have the main actors pretend to play.

Themes

I have created a Wordle from http://www.wordle.net/ that contains all my themes. These themes will essentially become the backbone of all the production in my music video. Conglomerating all of these themes together gives an idea of what i'm looking for in my video.

Further Ideas - Mind Map

To get into perspective the extras of my planning such as props, clothing and the validity of the actors, I decided to create a hand written mind-map with a series of my ideas. I scanned this onto my blogger in order to show the kinds of ideas for my planning at first hand. I will elaborate on these further.

Props - I'll be making an annotated sheet of lyrics later on containing further ideas of my props as I feel they are a fundemental part of both my video personally, and the theme I am pertaining to. The more props I can get, the more humourous I can allow my video to be, therefore to me, props are crucial. Aswell as this, I have opted for the idea of male orientated props such as footballs, and guitars to add to the music playing in the video. In this sense, I am further pertaining to the theme of my video.

Clothing - The clothing, simple enough, will be supplied by my actors as I want normal/average clothing to pertain to the socio-realism and themes of my video. However, another thought I had would be to feature my actors in formal clothing, to emphasise courtly love and romanticisim, thus making my video more comical. If my actors cannot supply this, I will have to find a way to supply it for them.

Actors/Extras - Once again I will elaborate further on my actors and extras by posting pictures of them. So far, I have delegated my three main actors; Tom Winship, Phil Hawkings and Jamie Clarke. These actors are all in the age range with experience in acting meaning they'll be more professional and more confident. I'll also employ extra's and back up plan actors in case for some reason the actors cannot make it.

Sound - I have opted for non diagetic, meaning my video will contain nothing but The Wombats' music. Upon this, the three main actors will main for socio-realism and comic effect.

Camera - My camera shots, at first thought, will vary to suit the light-heartedness of the video. I'll range them from everything between close-ups to extreme-long shots, giving a random and quirky feel to my video. However, during the filming process I cannot say I wont experiment and try new shots, so it is difficult to conclude indefinately what kind of shots I will be doing.

Main Themes of the Video - These are essentially the backbone of my entire video, and will be what I strive to accomplish throughout. However, like my camera shots, I cannot say whether or not i'll change the tone of the video. My main themes include: Socio-realism, Romance, "Angst" and Comedy.