For the first day of filming, I planned to film a few of my indoor shots. For these I filmed at my sisters flat, a location where a lot of my music video will take place.
The shots I planned to film were some of the ''flashback'' shots. For these I needed to consider how the mise-en-scene would change from the 'present tense' shot to the past via visual semiotics. For example, in the ''flashback'' shots, as this was seen to be a happy time by the male character, a string of fairy lights has been added to the scene along with a pink and a blue Disney mug to symbolise the relationship and memories of the two characters.
In order to plan and organise my ideas for my music video, I printed off a copy of the lyrics to the song and began to collect my thoughts around different verses of the songs. These annotations will form the basis for my initial ideas and storyboard of the music video.
I decided to only storyboard the first two versus of my music video as I am not sure how I want it to end as I have changed from my original idea. The story line I do have though portrays the lyrics well in the first two verses.
I decided to send an email to James Bay's management to ensure that I would be able to use his song for educational purposes. Below is a copy of the email sent.
My original plan for my music video was to have two narratives running alongside each other with two different endings. When attempting to film this, I realised that, with the time limit, this would be incredibly hard to do.
I attempted the dual narrative but found it difficult to get both the shots synchronised and in time with each other. I thought about filming both shots with a few differences to remove the stress of trying to replicate the shots exactly. However, I thought that the audience might not understand that it was the same narrative and not two different stories.
Instead of my original plan, I'm going to change my narrative into a story of a broken down relationship. I'm going to continue to use the song Let It Go by James Bay as I feel this would fit the new narrative and that the lyrics fit the story completely.
I will continue to use the same actor as I feel his look fits the part.
Before going out to shoot, I decided it would be a good idea to carry out a risk assessment of the places I would be filming for the safety of my actor and myself. The locations I planned to film in included: a wooded area, a flat, a house, and a few separate outdoors shots.
The Risk Assessment form below covers the risks for all of these locations.
For my music video, I needed to gain consent from my actor so that both him and I would understand what was needed and how long for. I asked my actor to fill out this form which states what my music video will be used for, the title of the production, and an overall statement in which explains what is needed of the actor and where he can expect the video to end up, eg Youtube.
