Storyboard

This is our storyboard, these are the shots we originally planned to use for out video shoot. We tried out many different ways of arranging the individual shots and thought this way is the most effective. Our storyboard is very simple and includes split screens of the cast singing to the camera from beginning to end. We have chosen this approach to our music video as it will be very aesthetically pleasing to watch, the variety of shots from CU to LS and angles also adds to the interesting factor about our video. Moreover the main reason we have chosen to work with an idea like this is due to it fitting perfectly into our chosen target audiences style of video, so this should hopefully be a success. 

Group discussion

This week we visited our location and took some pictures of it at different angles. We tested out the camera and took some sample filming shots of the location. We also began to make our storyboard and then turned it into an animatic.

High tilted angle of the sky and roof tops.

Eye level shot of housing nearby.

Eye level looking at the grass.

Grass.

Mixture of grass and concrete.

Location, Casting, Costumes

The chosen location is an outside wooded area that is away from urban environments, we have chosen this location as it is full of nature and wild life which will look good on camera, the location is quiet simple which will be suitable for our video. As the location is outside the quality of the shots will be very high helping to make our video look professional.

Our chosen wooded location away from urban civilisation.

We have cast a Lebanese youth to be in our video he goes by the name of Aos Alla as we feel he will suit being in the video in addition we have also cast a female actor called Jana Zavahgyu as she will also suit the role. The cast will be wearing a typical outfit that they would usually wear as this is something you would see in our chosen genres music video, this would consist of jeans of a dark (black) or  regular blue denim colour that are straight or slightly fitted as this is seen as an masculine item for males to wear. The top half would be a loose fitted t-shirt that is also of a dark colour such as grey, navy blue, black or in contrast white. These specific shades are complimentary to the jeans and are simple but effective. The choice of the colours resemble the artist, not in a negative “plain” idea but in a way which makes them come across as reserved, cool and calm in their image and not out there with a costume full of bright colours and patterns like some other artists. The shoes worn by the artist will be trainers as this is a very typical item of footwear worn by artists in the Hip Hop genre, it highlights the fact that they are very casually dressed but have a lot of money as the brands worn be the artist are usually designer label such as Maison Martin Margiela, Raf simons and Sain Laurent. Although our artist does not have these shoes he will be wearing Nike branded trainer.s Both these people have had past experience in previous music videos and are naturals in front of the camera.

Aos Allah

Jana Zavahgyu