Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Time	Info
10:30	Setting Up equipment at House
11:00	Film Brandon getting ready
11:45	Arrive at café location
11:50	Film at café/print out model advert – Rachel & Brandon
12:15	Arrive at Park location/Back Up
12:20	Film in Park
12:45	Film Brandon painting – Blank canvas & equipment
13:15	Arrive at Garage – Film location
13:45	LUNCH BREAK
14:15	Start filming Rachel – Close Up & Walking In
14:35	Girls arrive
14:50	Start filming girls interview
15:20	Film Brandon reaction to arrivals & crunching up paper
15:35	Walking down to House - Lipsycing
15:55	Film at house – Upstairs & Window
16:30	Film point of view – Cuddling
16:40	Film texting – Artist & Girl

 

 

** note this is just an estimate, there may be some changes depending on the day

Inspiration for actors

Performance aspect

Because we wanted our video to be as realistic and naturalistic as possible, we have limited the amount of performance based shots we have. This is because we wanted it to portray real life.

However, there are some shots where our main actor is lip syncing the lyrics. We did this as we wanted to portray that, although our target audience is typically girls, the song can be enjoyed by the male sex too. This also portrays that our song and video is not stereotypically aimed at one age group/sex but can be enjoyed by anyone.

The fact that our main actor will be lip syncing whilst painting, portrays the catchyness of the song, and how it can be interpreted in many different ways, and is left to the audience to decide.

This also links to the genre which is pop, which illustrates the casual and light heartedness of the song.

Star Image - By lip syncing and limiting dance routines, it means that this can be related to other artists similar to McFly such as One Direction.
Genre - The performance can relate to the genre, as boy bands include teenagers that would not feel comfortable dancing. One Direction's Zayn is famous for this by choosing not to dance in the X Factor boot camp.
Another example of Lip Syncing used in a music video is Pharrell Williams chart topping song 'Happy' which features multiple actors walking towards camera lip syncing Pharrell's audio.

Synthetic - The artist we are selling is synthetic, the performance relates to this by highlighting the artists features rather than their performance ability, as the artist is sold on their looks.
Target Audience - The performance element relates to our audience as many of the teenage girls watching these videos only watch because their favourite artist is in it, not because it is visually appealing.

Artists Similar to ours

We have chosen a particular artist that has a target audience of teenage girls. We chose this because they are very popular within the music industry at the moment, and we decided to take advantage of what is hot at present.

We want our artist to be similar to the most popular artists at the moment, like these ones below :

The Vamps

Lawson

One Direction

All these artists are based around their star image and are big in the pop genre. This is similar to our artist. The star image of these groups is based around their good looks and the attraction of teenage girls, which is what we want. All of the groups have the clean cut look, which is exactly what we were looking for.

Storyboard Analysis

Working on our storyboard was quite challenging. We faced a few issues when putting it together. For example, we made certain shots too long. This would be extremely boring and repetitive for the audience. We decided to change this as the whole point of a pop video is to be uplifting and light hearted, so we decided it would be unacceptable to have shots lasting for 12 seconds.

Due to this problem, it meant that if we made each shot shorter, we did not have enough shots to fill the 3 minutes of the song. This meant we had to come up with a few more shots. We found this as a group quite challenging, as we had already visualised what we wanted as a group. However, we overcame these challenges, and are back on track.

Despite facing minor issues, we overcame them very efficiently as a group.

Shot by shot guide

-        Establishing shot of art studio (0-3 s)

-        printing out the advert (close up) (4-6)

-        pan across other paintings (7-12)

-        close up of sticking the advert up (13-15)

-        shot focusing on the advert (16-24)

-        shot focusing on Rachel reading advert (25-29)

-        ellipses to him interviewing other girl (30-35)

-        Girls entering one after other (36-42)

-        POV shot of boy seeing girls (43-49)

-        frustrated due to not finding right girl (50-53)

-        crumbling up paper (54-55)

-        close up of crumpled pictures on the floor (56-63)

-        shot of blank canvas (64-65)

-        Rachel walking in (slow motion) (montage) (66-76 – 1 second interval with quick cuts)

-        shot of Brandon looking up and being amazed (slow motion) (77-80)

Change costume (different day)

-        Close up of art equipment (81-85)

-        Close up of Rachel’s face (86-89)

-        Cut to painted face (90-93)

-        Close up of Rachel’s eye (94-97)

-        Close up of painted eye (98-101)

-        Close up clock (102-106)

-        Close up of paint brushes and water (107-112)

Following day

-        Doing his hair in the mirror (113-120)

-        Putting on after shave (121-124)

-        Changes to tight t shirt (125-130)

Ellipses to in the Art Studio

-        Flicking her hair (131-133)

-        Smiling back at each other (134-136)

-        More of clock (137-139)

-        She leaves (140-143)

-        Crest fallen look on Brandon’s face (144-147)

In evening

-        Brandon lying on his bed (148-152)

-        Picks up his phone and texts girl (153-158)

-        Girl in her room texting back (159-161)

-        Brandon decides to head towards the girls house, puts on jacket (162-165)

-        Walking down the street different angles (166-175)

-        Brandon arrives at Rachel’s house, close up on face (176-177)

-        Establishing shot of house, him going up steps (178-182)

-        Brandon thinking of knocking on the door, but doesn’t decide to (183-190)

-        Establishing shot again, walking down steps (191-194)

-        Walks over to the window (195-197)

-        can see Rachel and her Boyfriend snuggled up (198-202)

-        Cut back to Brandon’s face through the glass (203-207)

-        Dripping paint from his painting (208-214)

Permission to use song