Mise en scene

In our video the main character will be Jacob, he is playing a teenager so he will be wearing his normal clothes, we want the video to look like its happening over a period of time so he will be wearing different clothes for most scenes. There is also a girl in the video, we have not decided who is going to play her yet but she will be wearing typical teenagers clothing as well.

There will be a scene in the video where Jacob walks by a homeless man in the park played by me, for this I will be wearing gloves and a wooly hat, and will be lying on a bench in a sleeping bag or a blanket. For this scene Jacob will walk by me and give me some money so we will need a few coins, we are also going to make a sign sayin I'm hungry or money for food on cardboard to have next to the bench and thats where Jacob will put the coin.

 

There are a few scenes where Jacob and the girl are doing things as a couple, such as walking the dog, so obvioulsy we will need a dog for that scene. There is also a scene where they are feeding ducks, so we will need to find a pond with ducks in it.

For the choruses we are using stop frame animation, we are using a number of ways to spell out the title of the song Oh Me Oh My. One of them we are going to use pens and pencils to spell it out so we are going to need a lot of stationary.

Shooting Schedule

Research

To get ideas for our production piece I have been looking at other videos for filming techniques, editing transitions and different shots. I was showed a video which a friend had made, its a music for the song Lets Go Surfing by The Drums. In the video he used a technique where a person is in the same shot a number of times, we wanted to do something similar in our video so we watched this to get ideas.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVynmcis2vE

Green Screen Experiment

Audience Research

We made a questionnaire for people to answer about music, we wanted to find out what kind of music people listen to and how they find it. We handed the questionaire out to some of the students around the school, we also asked some people around the school the questions and recorded their responses. These are the responses we got.

Planning

We have began planning for our music video, this is a spider diagram of the ideas that we have came up with so far. We are trying to relate the video to the lyrics in the song.

The main idea we have had for the video is to have it based on a relationship between a girl and a boy, we listened to the song a number of times and we thought that this is what the song was about. The general idea is that is that the couple start off happy but begin to argue, there will be many shots of them doing normal activities which a couple would do such as going to the cinema, shopping together etc. Something will happen and there would be an argument between the two, the rest of the video will be him thinking about their relationship.

Gaining Band's Permission

We need to ask the bands permission before we can start planning and filming so we decided to email them, the band left some of their member's email addresses so we contacted one of them.

This is the email that we sent to James Loughlin:



They emailed back on the same day, this is the email they sent us back:

 

Now that we have the bands permission we can start our planning for the video.