Preliminary exercise: Research and planning

Research and planning

1) State the song you have chosen for your preliminary exercise.
The song that I have chosen is "Cool Girls" by Tove Lo.

2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene.

The Warning- More

long shot

medium shot

extreme close-up

bold makeup

bright colour palette 

strong facial expression - empowerment

editing 

transitions

Bonsai kitten- i have freedom

Logo of her name

close up

face reveal

dark colours

transitions 

play of edits

central positioning

She and her darkness

Name of label

dark colours presenting empowerment 

Subversion of mulvey's gaze 

close ups

wide shots

long shots showing the whole of setting

Contrasting colour scheme and setting

 You can find an example of a treatment here. If you are making your real coursework then feel free to use the treatment from your summer project.

For my tiktok music video. I have used a band of girl group who will be lip syncing to the song "Cool Girls" by Tove Lo. The reason I have chosen this song is because it links to three key themes of empowerment, female identity and control. In my video, I will make use of mise-en-scene such as black clothing, bold makup and profesional non-revealing outfits which wil subvert Mulvey's male gaze theory and other traditional stereoypes of women, which constrict women to domestic roles. Additonally, I will utilise different locations such as: offices, high streets and an isolated alleyway setting in order to present these female artists as modern, independent and empowering, away from assistance needed from men. To further develop, I will encorporate different editing tools, ie transitions and special effects to keep audiences attention on the artists as well as diferent varities of camera shots such as: close-ups, extreme close-ups, wide shots, tracking shots and more.

4) Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing (in a music video you will find you need FAR more shots than you think, particularly close-ups). These additional shots can be close-ups, alternative angles or something more creative. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word/Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example here (this is from narrative filmmaking but the same format can be used for any video project). 

shot list:

1)Wide shot of one of the artist in a hoodie sat by a wall in a dark alleyway setting.

1)close-up of  arists screaming and crying with face hidden by hoodie

2) close up on the bottle in her hand 

3) medium shot of face reveal of the artist with mascara and tears on the face

4) close-up transition with same expression and costume to the next artist 

5) close-up transition to the third artist with the same expression and costume

5) close-up on the bottle she is holding and then smashes in on the floor

6) Transition from glass to wide shot of all artist positioned in the centre of a bustling high street

7) tracking shot of all the artist- from the back

8) close up on one artist face as they turn 

9)wide shot of the whole location with that one artist in centre

10) tracking shot of the artist moving along the sreet

11)transition to the next artist as they walk

12)close-up as they walk

13) transition to next artist

14) close up of quick shots of each artist

15) close up of each artist lip syncing 

16) wide shot of all the artist standing together stepping into the next setting

17) match-on-action as they step in with close-up on shoes

18) POV shot of the office setting

19) medium-shot on facial expresssions of the artists

20) tracking shot of one artist going to the computer desk

21) medium shot of the artist sitting on chair while holding papers

22) close up on a computer, and the next artist typing the song lyric and lip syncing

23) wide shot of presentation led by the third female artist

24) close-up on this artist as she lip syncs

25) wide shot of the other two artists entering the meeting room 

26) group shot of all the artist laughing/lip syncing while papers are flowing scattered everywhere

5) Plan your mise-en-scene: what iconography are you including to ensure your audience understands the genre and style of your artist? Plan your settings, costume, make-up, props and lighting. 

Lighting- shadows 

Setting- high street bustling area/ office/ isloated alleyway

costume- black outfits/ suits in office, stylish outfits in the high street, hoodies in the alleyway 

Makup- bold/ presentable

props- sunglasses/ computers/ desktop/ shopping bags 

6) Plan a shooting schedule that will ensure everything is filmed by the deadline. Include when, where, who is required, planned equipment and any other aspects you need to arrange.

Day 1

Isolated alleyway area

Just presence of the artists in hoodie

Shadows

Dark 

Lipsync 

Torch

Bottles

Day 2

High street

lip-sync

Long shots and close up shots

Walking

phone camera

Day 3

Office

Suits

Lip sync

desk

Paper

Computers