Costumes + Make Up!

Today we have decided that we need to make some drastic decisions with our costumes. We have decided that our costumes need to suit tone and theme of our music video. The main costumes colour that we have decided on is black, because of how we are dark and mysterious characters within our video.

We have deducted that it is only shots 9 and 18 that we are fully seen properly, so therefore these are the first scenes that we have discussed our outfits, we have decided on black leggins and black black t-shirts for these scenes to keep it simple.

The majority of the other shots we will be wearing  black leggins and white tops/blouses. We will be wearing white to suggest an idea of innocence to the film. These costumes will be worn in the scenes before we are attacked. As apose to this, once we have been attacked in our film, we will be wearing the same clothes, but with blood stains, tares, rips and mud stains. This will show our loss of innocence in the filming.

This is the top that I have chosen on for my costume, I have chosen this top because I feel that it shows the innocence of the character, because of the the colour that we have chosen.

Once we had completed all of our filming of the innocent shots, we decided that we would cut up out tops to show the change of our characters personalities.

As a group we decided that we wanted our make up to look like we had been...killed, like it was messy and so you could clearly tell our transition of personalities.

Story boarding

We started our story boarding for our music video idea, to go towards the planning aspect. To do this we broke down our shooting script into the various amount of different shots that would be needed then split the story boarding into equal amounts between the group. Laurie did the first 11, I the did the next 11 and Francesca completed the rest of them. I feel this worked effectively because we were able to get a better idea of how we would actually be shooting our ideas, and how they would potentially look on camera.

Second Draft of Shooting Script

Total time 2:32
Shot Number 1
0:00 - 0:13
Location: Woods
Different establishing shots including opening credits
0:13 - 0:36
Location: Drama Room
(Lip syncing)
Shot Number 2a
Fran- I've been waiting for you
it's been so long
Shot Number 2b
Laurie- I knewjust what I would do
when I heard your song
Shot number 2c
Jodie- The next thing I felt was you
Holding me close
Shot Number 2d
(split screen for all three to sing)
What am I gonna do, I let myself go

0:36 - 0:42
Location: Drama Room
(Red lips singing on a black background, green screen needed)
Shot Number 3a
Jodie- Nothing left to say
Shot Number 3b
Laurie- Take my breath away
Shot Number 3c
Fran- Whispering your name
Shot Number 3d
Jodie- Tie me up in chains
Shot Number 3e
Fran- No one puts it down like me

0:42-0:47
Shot Number 4
Location: Drama Room
(sit back to back in chairs, camera tracking around us in a circle. Break the 4th wall

0:47 - 0:54
(Jump cuts of doing sharp movement)
Shot Number 5
Strength I would have known
Make me beg for more
climbing up the walls
banging down the doors
Knowing that you hear my screams

Shot Number 6
0:54 - 0:55 - (Close up shots of the male fists)
Shot Number 7
0:55 - 0:56 -(Close up shots of the male mouth)
Shot Number 8
0:56 - 0:57-(Close up shots of the male eyes)
Shot Number 9
0:57 - 1:10- ( black background whilst dancing)
Shot Number 10
1:10 - 1:22 (Montage, slow motion runs,tracking, subject looking back at the camera)
Shot Number 10b
(Hand running across the wall with blood. Close up)

1:22 - 1:34-
Shot Number 11a
Flash backs, Innocent Laurie being followed, evil Laurie onlooking
Shot Number 11b
Innocent Fran being grabbed, Evil Fran onlooking
Shot Number 11c
Innocent Jodie being bitten, Evil Fran onlooking

Shot Number 12
1:34 - 1:39 (Male arms wrap around fran and break away, all you can see is males arms and Fran. Males hand over mouth and round waist)

Shot Number 13
1:39 - 1:45 (Mimic Delilah video, camera following the male from behind, don't see the face)

Shot Number 14
1:45 - 1:52 (Jump Cuts, mid shots of Jodie, Laurie and Fran)

Shot Number 15
1:52 - 1:56 (Close up of female fangs)

Shot Number 16
1:57 - 2:05(Extreme close up of licking lips/fangs. Fake blood dripping down the side of lips. Silent scream) 'strength I could have known, make me beg for more... knowing that you hear my scream')

Shot Number 17
2:05 - 2:08 ( Extreme Close up of eyes looking from left to right)

Shot Number 18
2:08 - 2:21 (Dance)

Shot Number 19
2:21 - 2:24 (Flashing to male running- more fast paced)

Shot Number 20
2:24 - 2:26 (Male looks back in slow motion)

Shot Number 21
2:26 - 2:30 (Camera pans in a curcular motion around the male, while he looks scared

Shot Number 22
2:30 - 2:33 (Back to females (silence/ooo section) extreme close up to show fangs for ending shot, POV shot from males perception)

Emailing The Record Label

So today as a group we thought it would be a good idea if we e-mailed Atlantic Records, so that we could get permission from them for use of the song, Go, by their artist Delilah. We got a response e-mail from the record label, saying that they would get back to us... Unfortunately they didn't get back to us about the song choice.

Casting of the Male Character

First Draft of the Shooting Script

So today we've all sat together and started planning towards our shooting script. We've had a discussion about how we may add some changes to the script if we feel that we need to because of the amount of fast paced shots that we will be including. If needed we feel we may need to re-draft some changed to the shooting script, so this is classed as our first draft.

Total time 2:32

First 13 seconds of the song will be different establishing shots of settings, for example woods etc. Also includes the opening credits

0:13 - 0:35- Shot

Fran- I've been waiting for you
it's been so long
Laurie- I knewjust what I would do
when I heard your song
Jodie- The next thing I felt was you
Holding me close

(split screen for all three to sing) What am I gonna do, I let myself go
(different close ups, on a black screen)

0:35 - 0:42
(On black screen, red lips singing all at the same time)
Jodie- Nothing left to say
Laurie- Take my breath away
Fran- Whispering your name
Jodie- Tie me up in chains
All- No one puts it down like me

0:47 - 0:54 (Jump cuts of doing sharp movement)
Strength I would have known
Make me beg for more
climbing up the walls
banging down the doors
Knowing that you hear my screams

0:54 - 0:58 - (Break from lrics)

0:58 - 1:10- ( Dance/ Montage)

1:10 - 1:22 (Montage, slow motion runs, look at the camera)

1:22 - 1:34 (idea- Flash backs of us remembering, getting attacked, singing while we watch our selves getting attacked.
Alternative- not be in the same place at the same time, Flashbacks)

1:34 - 1:39 (Male arms wrap around fran and break away, all you can see is males arms and Fran. Males hand over mouth and round waist)

1:39 - 1:45 (Mimic Delilah video, camera following the male from behind, don't see the face)

1:45 - 1:52 (Jump Cuts)

1:52 - 1:56 (Close up of different body parts, shows the transition of innocence)

1:57 - 2:05(Extreme close up of licking lips/fangs. Fake blood dripping down the side of lips. Silent scream) 'strength I could have known, make me beg for more... knowing that you hear my scream')

2:05 - 2:08 (Close up of eyes looking from left to right)

2:08 - 2:21 (Dance)

2:21 - 2:24 (Flashing to male running- more fast paced)

2:24 - 2:26 (Male looks back in slow motion)

2:26 - 2:30 (Camera pans in a curcular motion around the male, while he looks scared

2:30 - 2:33 (Back to females (silence/ooo section) extreme close up to show fangs for ending shot)

Choice Of Song

Delilah- Go

We decided on this song because of the tone and atmosphere that the song itself would set upon our music video. We think that its a good song choice because its slow speed sets a tense atmosphere on the video. Also we feel it is relevant to our music video because of the various lyrics used, which links back to the actual content of our music video. the lyrics are about a woman loss of control to a man, without even realising its happening. This is ultimately what happens within our video, so this is the main reason why we will be using this song choice.