Research and planning: Pre-production

The final aspect of your Assignment 3 Research and Planning is pre-production.

This is the planning, sketching and drafting that you must complete before picking up a camera and filming your music video.

In your group OR individually, you need to complete the following planning:

1) Storyboard
2) Shotlist
3) Mise-en-scene planning

You need a minimum of 3 pages EACH. You CANNOT put any work in your folder that has been created by someone else in your group.

Storyboard

• Use the skills you have already developed in Assignment 2.
• Create a visual ‘feel’ for what you want your music video to look like – you won’t be able to storyboard every shot.
• Use a wide variety of creative shots and draw them accurately.
• Aim for somewhere between 10-20 frames (depending on whether you are working individually or in a group).
• Make sure you write text in the right-hand boxes explaining the type of shot (must be accurate), camera movement and sound (which line of the song the shot goes with).

Shot list

• The shot list is the single most important pre-production document – you will tick off each shot while shooting.
• Remember, you will shoot far more than you actually use - which means a variety of shots for each event or location in the music video.
• Due to this, there will be far more shots on the shot list than in the storyboard.
• You will need at least one shot for every second of the track you have chosen - so the shot list will contain 180+ shots.
• The most important shot type to plan is close-ups. Ideally, you should have one close up every three shots. That means 60+ close-ups planned in your shot list!

Mise-en-scene planning

• This document involves all the planning for anything appearing in front of the camera. Remember CLAMPS: Costume, Lighting, Actors (cast), Make-up, Props, Setting.
• Use images to show you have planned each aspect of mise-en-scene (phone pictures/ Google images/ Google maps are all acceptable here).

The deadline for all your research and planning is Tuesday 21 February. 

IMPORTANT: you cannot sign out a camera for filming unless everyone in your group has completed ALL research and planning documents.