Experimenting with Photo Shots

Experimenting with Photo shots.

we have taken some photos to test out and show the kinds of angles we will be using in our video. Below is a explanation of when each of them will be used and why we have chosen to use them.


                                                                                 
To the left there are two photos we have taken. These photos are made to present the type of shot we will use on the pier at the start of the music video. While we will not see lots of scenic greenery in the background, we will see water and the general surroundings on the pier. We decided to use a over the shoulder shot and a side shot of her face. This is so why we appear to keep our distance from the situation the audience can still see things from her point of view.                                    

Here is a Gif I have made of two photos we have taken. These kind of photo's will be used during the intro while we look at different areas of the field, we will also use shots from further away but these were designed to represent particular close ups.

These pictures were taken to show how we would film the section where the world is rushing past the homeless person. We have used a point of view shot so that the viewer sees things from the same level as the homeless person and takes notice of them instead of the rest of the world who just ignores them.

These shots were taken to show how we would film the final section of the music video. On the last 3 chords we wanted to zoom out from a close up on her face.

Here are 3 pictures trying to represent how we would film the section where the lead singer is walking through the rose garden.

we plan to have a small section in the second half of the music video where she is walking down the pavement. For this we plan to use both

tracking shots from in front of the lead singer and from the side. to the left there is two examples of how we might film this.

Here are a sequence of photos to show how we plan to film her entering the field from the pavement. we plan to film it twice. once from behind her and once from in front of her so we can see her multiple angles. Furthermore we see how we plan to see her walking away from the camera.

   

Story board

This is our story board. above it is in a more written form, again with the timings and lyrics on the left and the pictures to represent what we are going to be doing on the left. Below we have put it into a video format to help the viewer understand what we plan it to look like. 

Time Line

This is our time line for our song. On the far left is the timing's and the lyrics at that moment. On the right is what we plan to do for that section of the music.

Asking Permission to use our song.

We have emailed the Record label to ask permission to use Birdys People Help the People.The song has many companies asttached to it, most are french as Birdy is originally from France, however we choose to focus on th UK Company. Below are print screens of the email we have sent them.

Introduction: Planning ideas for music video

For the first week of this project we worked on our own so we could plan a idea of what we would do. Once we had done this we got put into our groups of 4 and discussed what we had done. I and Hannah planned to do two very similar slow songs, mine was People Help The People by Birdy and she had looked into River by Emeli Sande. Danielle had planned to do a dance song, Beyoncé’s song Single Lady’s while Katie looked at Taylor Swift’s song 22 and wanted to do a much more pop style video.

 

We looked at each of the songs and eventually decided as a group that a slow song would be better as we could tell a story. While a fully dance music video would be great it was a little unrealistic as it takes a lot of time to choreograph a full song and you need to find dancers who can dance in the right style of the song. And again the planning Katie had song for the pop song was great but relied on a lot of other people to be free at the same time to help bulk out a party idea. This would be very hard and time consuming to organise and it’s never guaranteed to work out.

 

We then looked at the Birdy song and Emeli Sande song and decided to focus on the Birdy song. The planning I had done and the basic idea I had was liked by the whole group and so as a four we started to develop it. My original story line was that a girl is emotional over a recent break up and by the end of the song they will find each other and sort everything out. However having discussed this with the group we decided that the break-up idea didn’t really fit with the song as it focuses on the idea of helping others instead of helping yourself. In my original idea I had thought to look at ideas of helping random strangers such as giving a homeless man some money. However in my planning I had pushed this to the background but the girls wanted to bring this forward in the story line and combine it with a contemporary dance. This way the video still had an element of Danielle’s idea which still fitted into the theme of the song.

 

We had now created our storyline. It would still include many people’s ideas and many different areas but hopefully it will all fit together. Once this was done we looked into who we could use in our video and where we could shoot the different themes. While we are still undecided about who would play the main role in our video we looked into the contemporary dancers a lot and watched some footage I had of two of my friends dancing together to the same some we had decided on. Everyone instantly liked them and so, if they agree to it, we plan to use them for a dance break during the instrumental.  We also looked into effects and different aspects we could do. These ideas include;

-          Fading from black and white into colour to reflect emotional changes.

-          Slow moition.

-          Manipulating time (starting with footage from the end of the story and then going back to the beginning to show the story of how it got there).

-          Lead being female.

-          Walking through streets

-          The good deeds that will be seen in our video.

-          Miming. (only a small section of our song will have the lead lip singing, and this will be at the end).