A rough storyboard.

We wrote up a rough storyboard as a group to give us a basic idea of what we wanted to do with our music video and how we wanted it to lead from one shot to another, giving us some ideas once we decided to film what we need to do and what we still need to do if we miss anything.

Storyboard

1.     Establishing shot – front of school tracking slightly.

2.     Close up shot – back of Romy’s head as she walks down the corridor, tracking her

3.     Medium shot – four girls giggling and chatting tracking from them to Romy

4.     Long shot – classroom scene with all children around chatting and messing about

5.     Medium shot – Romy writing on her desk surrounded by the rest of the class

6.     Medium shot from the side – singing at Romy from behind

7.     Medium shot – Romy looking back at the girls singing at her

8.     Mid shot – Romy back to writing on her desk with girls around her singing

9.     Frontal mid shot- Romy with girl behind making faces

10.  Close up shot – other students reactions and messing about

11.  Medium shot – classroom again showing Romy back to writing

12.  Medium shot – girls singing around Romy again

13.  Close up – Romy slowly looking up towards the camera

14.  Medium shot – quick cut to Olivia hiding behind a desk

15.  Close up – more students reactions within the class

16.  Medium shot – Teacher looking bored at her desk

17.  Close up – Romy still slowly looking up towards the camera

18.  Long shot – classroom once again with kids messing about

19.  Medium shot – Teacher at her desk again tidying

20.  Close up – Romy looking angry with her face lifted up and getting up and turning round at the girls

21.  Tracking shots – Romy banging through doors, smashing displays, pulling paper down and banging lockers

22.  Close up shot – Romy getting out silly string

23.  Medium shot – Classrooms reaction to what Romy’s doing

24.  Medium shot – Romy spraying silly string towards the class

25.  Medium shot – Class getting covered in silly string

26.  Mid shot – Romy looking up and dancing round with balloons falling around her

27.  End of music video – long shot of the class dancing and all together

A rough shot list.

This is just a rough shot list that our group wrote up to give us some idea of how to film our performance shots and some of our narrative shots. The performance shots especially needed some rough planning as we have to film each from a different angle to help the music video have variety throughout the video so the audience don't get bored with the same old shot everytime.

Shot List

Location: Classroom

Types of shot: Performance

-        Close up shot – straight ahead

-        Close up shot – from the left side

-        Close up shot – from the right side

-        Medium shot – straight ahead

-        Medium shot – from the left side

-        Medium shot – from the right side

-        Tracking shot – forward and back

-        Tracking shot – around the main singer

-        Extreme close up – from the side of her mouth

Location: Classroom

Types of shot: Narrative

-        Long shot – from the left side

-        Long shot – straight ahead

-        Medium shot – straight ahead on main girl with girls behind her

-        Medium shot – from the side “                          “

-        Close up – straight ahead of main singer and other pupils

-        Tracking shot – around the action within the classroom

-        Tracking shot – in and out of the action

-        Extreme close up – straight ahead of singers face

-        Tracking shot – in and out and around Romy as she sings

Location shots

Location shots

I studied the music video for our song carefully and looked at the locations they used throughout the music video to help give us a good idea of what sort of locations and how many we needed in our music video. Throughout the presentation above we can see that I have analyzed a few shots from the music video against photos we have taken to show exactly what we are going to do throughout our music video. This helps give us an idea of what locations we are going to use and what the story line is and how we are going to angle the camera throughout.

Discussions and ideas within our group.

After finally analyzing and discussing a few music videos and collecting ideas we finally sat down and decided on what our main ideas were for the music video. We all decided on a similar idea to Jessie J's 'Whos Laughing Now' as this would be simple for us to recreate within the college. Also we though it showed a clear idea of the genre that it was within and what we wanted to portray for our coursework.

We decided the main locations we would need were:

- Outside school
- Classroom
- Corridor
- Canteen
- Hall
- Playground

Though only one of these locations would be used for the performing shots and the rest for the narrative throughout the music video. We also thoughout about the people we would need to create the music video such as the main performer and the performer for the narrative parts of the music video, along with a few extras in the background.

Jessie J Performing Shots analysis.

Music video analysis of Jessie J

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For this analysis I looked deeply into the music video of Jessie J's 'Who's Laughing Now' as it gave us some good ideas towards our own music video we wanted to create. I looked specifically at the performing shots throughout as they were typical of the pop genre. This helped give us some more ideas in the ways we should create ours such as keeping consistency throughout the music video and showing the performer looking directly into the camera as she performs the song.

Analysis of performance shots.

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Following the study of previous music videos within the genre I was focusing on, I decided to look at another female pop singer, Rihanna, and studied her performance shots within the first 30 seconds of the music video. They were quite different to other music videos I looked at as she wasn't looking directly into the camera and only into her reflection.

More Genre Research.

Before we could ultimately decide upon our music video and ideas we wanted to use for it, we decided to look at existing music videos within the genres we wanted to make a music video within. We began by looking at:

- Taylor Swift (You Belong With Me)
- Jessie J (Who's Laughing Now, Nobody's Perfect)
- The Saturdays (Ego)
- Pink (Perfect, So What, Stupid Girls)

We chose these specific songs and artists because they fitted straight into the Pop genre and all followed a narrative along with performance shots throughout so they kept their genre clear throughout. As we watched each of these it helped give us ideas of a narrative to create throughout our music video along with have a main singer, singing the lyrics throughout. This helped with our research as it gave us background on the genre and exactly what is expected of us when we create our music video in the same genre.