Final Location Plan

These are the final locations that we decided to use. In the end we decided to use nearly all the locations that we scouted apart from the local park as we felt there would be too many shots of them in a forest setting and not enough urban ones. We have also had an idea to get more shots from around the city even though we haven't scouted them in places such as  the shopping centre or the royal arcade which have some opportunities for some really good shots and getting the actors to do some different things, however mainly it will be then spending time with each other . we thought the locations would be good because they are slightly different than where a couple would go on an date and that again fits in with the song well as they are supposed to be a bit different.

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Casting Auditions

These are the casting auditions for our music video. From this we are going to pick who we would like to have in our video. straight away there were a few people that we know we didn't want to use and a few we would really like to use so it shouldn't be to hard to create a short list. We are also going to split them up although we auditioned them in pairs we are going to mix them up to get the best possible cast.

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Final Plot Ideas

Our final plot idea is nearly the same as the last idea we came up with. The idea is that a girl is in a classroom falling asleep which then cuts to her with a boy basically just spending tie together walking about sitting together. We re going to cut in shots of a band playing the song as well. one of the main shots in the video is of the couple jumping into a river through powder paint. We wanted to use this because it symbolises the rebellious attitude of the song. the end of the song we are going to have the girl waking up in the class room but its empty and the whole video just happened in her head.

This song fits in well with our conditions which where one shot of 30 seconds and no shot longer that 4 seconds. The song has a long introduction of 42 seconds which provides us with an brilliant opportunity to fit in the long 30 second shot and the rest of the song is quite fast paced which will let us have short shots to fit in with the 4 second condition. The main stimulus that we had was the song itself the lyrics are quite clear and easy to understand which provided us with an idea to work off that idea being somewhere else on another planet.

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Lyrics of the song

"Another Girl, Another Planet"

 

[Blink-182]

I Always flirt with death
I could kill but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
Stand up tall and scream and shout about it

I think I'm on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you

You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
I don't need rehabilitating

Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet

Space travel's in my blood
And there ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out but
Oh god, you know we won't live without it

Another girl is loving you now
Another planet forever holding you down
Another planet

The tempo of the song as with most of the songs in the pop Punk genre is quite fast, upbeat and energetic. This dramatically affects how we plan to do our video because it has to fit in with the song. Because of this the requirement that we got that "no shot should be longer than 4 seconds" is actually quite beneficial and easy to accomplish. It is worth noting here that this condition did influence our song choice greatly. By having quick shots we are able to create the energetic feel of the song in the video and this is so important because  if the video is very slow and the song fast, then it wouldn't look right to watch and wouldn't look very good at all.The lyrics of the song also have a massive impact on the video because we want to have a good narrative so we need to plan a video that fits in with the lyrics of the song. The main part of the song is Another girl another planet as with the song title and so we need to plan the video to incorporate it some how we are planning to have an influence of some how the girl being in a different place to out main character suggesting the other planet. The genre of the song is pop/rock punk, with this normally the videos for these types of songs fit in with the punk type culture, This affects how the people in videos dress act and what they are doing and so this would influence how we plan the mise en scene of the video to try and follow the trend of videos in the same sort of genre.

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Plot Ideas

original idea: The main basis of the plot will follow both a boy and girl with intermittent shots of the band playing throughout. In the initial scenes we will follow the boy in a school classroom. By using crab shots and also a tracking shot we will focus on the boy as a central focus amongst the other students. We could consider using a shallow focus here to blur out the background and highlight the boy as the central focus. The boy is seen at the desk slowly falling asleep where the scene is immediately cut to memories/dreams of the boy and girl together. We will most likely use a montage of shots to make their relationship feel more believable. Furthermore, throughout the music video we will use small (4 second) cuts of the band to give a certain context to the music and promote the song itself. Towards the end we will hear a sound bridge of a traditional school bell where we are brought back to the classroom at the beginning where the boy is seen alone, isolated within the classroom.

Current Idea (6/24/16) :
Our current idea is a little different as we have altered the plot and changed the protagonist from the boy to the girl. I think this will give more of an interest and reverse the gender stereotypes usually depicted within music videos today. We have also introduced effects such as powder paint and sparklers, thinking about using a long exposure and experiment with light throughout the clip. However, we are currently keeping with the idea of the school and the frequent shots of the band as I think this really works with the song's particular genre.
We have also thought about using fairly abandoned locations on set for the band to play in. I think this would look effective and really break up the confinement of spaces such as the school.

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Casting Ideas

Before filming any of the film we decided to cast our actors as to decide who would be best suited for clip. When interviewing them we decided to ask them a range of questions based on our film including script and questions.

The casting of our music video was very important for us to get right because we felt the song requires a certain kind of person to make it look the best, so when we where auditioning people we need to make sure they wouldn't hold back and would be willing to have fun with the filming rather than feeling nervous or worried about doing it. It was also important for us to get two people that would be happy working together as if they didn't really like each other then the video wouldn't look as good.

Since the song is by a pop punk band we want to get people who look and act like they would fit in with that genre and culture, we can sort the costumes out so that they look right but if they act very reserved for example it won't look right and they would look out of place acting in the video. Since it is important for us to have good actors in this video we would ideally like to use people who have done acting before so we are looking to se drama students from our school because they would both have experience and they would be the right get that we are going for which is 17-18 years old.

We have already started thinking about people who we could use that fit all of our criteria and we have asked them if they would audition all but 2 said that they would which is useful as it will give us a choice rather than just 2 people saying y
es and us being forced to use them.

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Location Details

Drew and ollie decided to scout some locations to do the filming in.

The first place we went to was the forest behind the local park to see if there was any places that we could either put in the band shots or have our couple be doing some sort of activity. It was very wet when we went and so we had to leave quickly and the areas that we where looking where quite wet this would be ideal for filming so hopefully it will be dry when we go to film there however if not e will have to find something else to do there or shoot somewhere else.

The second place we went to was the marshes in norwich this was a really good location as it had 3 different landscapes in it. it had open fields a dense forest with big dips in the landscape and the marshes themselves which where open fields and rivers. This has provided us with a lot that we could possibly do and so we would defiantly like to use that location.

 

The third location that we went to was the city itself and we decided that we would have some more urban shots there where a few locations there but we will decide finally on the day of filming as we need to check where there set too many people as this could possible ruin the shots, because of this we would like to go in the week so its quieter.

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