Shot list

Shot list

XLS – Panning Shot – Setting up location

MCU – High Shot – First shot of Cesca

Pan up – Shot goes up to the sky which then fades to black to show the passing of time

LS – Flashback – Panning shot of her walking and falling over

MCU – Crab shot to the right – Cesca turns radio on and dances around kitchen

BCU – Animation - Shot of the radio

MLS – Eye level – Cesca sitting down on wall miming

LS – Eye level – Spinning round lamppost

MLS – Panning shot – Forest scene of Cesca walking

CU – Eye level – Magazine scene – Reading a magazine

Stop motion section of magazine blowing in the wind

CU – High shot – Feet stepping through leaves

MCU – Cesca in the park

Stop motion of penny’s and pounds

BCU – Animation – Shot of the radio

MS – Low shot – Cesca miming to the camera (street scene)

MS – Eye level – Graffiti scene, dancing around

MCU – Tracking shot – Walking through streets

MCU – Slightly low shot – Walking through woods

MLS – Kitchen scene – Cesca dropping the egg

Panning shot then tilt down – Location shot

Zoom in – Location shot

Zoom out – location shot

MCU – Graffiti and street scenes, walking around

CU - High shot – Cracking an egg (right this time rather than dropping it)

BCU - Tilt up – Shows Cesca’s face being happy

MLS - High shot – by the river, Cesca miming

MCU-MLS - Crab shot right – Walking away into the distance

Worms’s eye - Location shot

Bird’s eye – Location shot

BCU – Radio being turned off

Mise en scene

One of the main focuses is my piece needs to be the mise en scene as this will enable me to get across emotions and atmosphere towards the viewer. Although when filming I tried to think about this by choosing interesting locations that used colour and setting well, the main way in which I will get across mise en scene of the piece will be through the editing process. There are two main sections in my piece; before she gains confidence and after she gains confidence. This therefore means that I will have to somehow try and make the difference in these two sections contrasting and different in order to show the viewer what is happening. I decided to edit the piece so that the beginning is dark and dull and got a slightly 'blue' feel about it to represent the characters mood, then when she wakes up in the morning everything will be bright and colourful to show that she is happier and loving life. I will use a slightly more red/orange tint to these sections as this shows worth and excitement.

Narrative of the piece

I wanted to experiment with the narrative structure of my piece to make it slightly more interesting. I incorporated the use of flashbacks to show different, contrasting experiences that the girl had, before and after, she gained her confidence. The piece starts with her in real time in her bedroom, then as she is explaining about how bad life can be there is a flashback to her tripping up/falling over which symbolises how she feels about her life. Then it flashes back to her in normal time and there is a change of night to day. When she wakes up in the morning all her troubles are gone and the rest of the piece goes on to show how she grows and is happy with her life again. The scene that she saw herself in of her falling over is replicated again but happy and she also stops herself from tripping up. I feel that this is a good way to show the contrast between the two sections of the piece.

Filming update!

The filming went fairly smoothly and me and Francesca managed to get everything done over the weekend! There may be a few hiccups with the timing as some shots involving the fast forwarding sky shot will be done another time but this is a good start! I'm happy with what we got and now just need to get it all edited :)

Drawbacks with filming

When I had planned to film over the christmas holidays my actress for the video had an emergency and was no longer able to film that day and wasn't free any other day. This meant that I had to postpone the filming until we were back at school, and even then it was difficult to fit the filming time in when we were both available.

In order to make this slightly easier, I re-looked at the places I wanted to film in. If we done one afternoon filming to shoot at the place in Norwich (chapelfield gardens and subway) and then another day we could do all the rest of the filming in and around Wymondham (street scene, forest scene etc). This unfortunately meant that I had to disregard the beach scene, but I feel that I should be able to make up for that by doing the other scenes well.

Character notes

Here is the notes that I gave Cesca to read about her character. I used this in order to allow her to get a feel about the character that she would be playing so that her performance would be exactly how I wanted it to be.

Your character is an 18/19 year old girl who lives in a quiet town. Her life is not the most exciting and she often embarrasses herself due to her clumsy nature. This makes her self-confidence even worse until one day she has a revelation that it doesn’t really matter about being clumsy, and things will just go right if you relax and calm down. The video is a story of her journey of realising this and how good life can be after you gain a bit of confidence! Before her revelation she is a quiet, shy girl yet afterwards she is more confident and bubbly. This girl is supposed to represent the artist in her struggle to find herself as a popstar and now finally having made it she is loving life. The artist is an urban popstar who is very cool and care free so that needs to come across in her performance.

Lip Sync/Lip Dub

Wikipedia - Lip sync, lip-sync, lip-synch or lip-sing is a technical term for matching lip movements with voice and can refer to any of a number of different techniques and processes.

Because the film track and music track are recorded separately during the creation of a music video , artists usually lip-sync to their songs and often imitate playing musical instruments as well. Artists also sometimes move their lips at a faster speed from the track, to create videos with a slow-motion effect in the final clip, which is widely considered to be complex to achieve.

A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip syncing and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with the original audio of the song. There is often some form of mobile audio device used such as an mp3 players. Often they look like simple music videos, although many involve a lot of preparation and production. Lip dubs can be done in a single unedited shot that often travels through different rooms and situations within a building. They have become popular with the advent of mass participatory video content sites like YouTube.

Tom Johnson, a technical writer who blogs about Web 2.0's effect on communication, describes a good lip dub as having the characteristics, or at least the appearance, of spontaneity, authenticity, group participation and fun.

For my piece I am going to need to use the technique of lip dubbing as this is a population convention that is seen in pop music videos. With this help I have decided that I will need to acquire something to play the song off so that Cesca will be able to mime the words in time, so that when I put it together in editing the timings are correct.

Storyboard

This is a rough first draft of the video, not all of it has been done. The 'tweet' section in the song has not been drawn on the storyboard as this will all just be little random shots of locations and things that relate to the video and therefore thought this would be too much to draw!