Filming our Music Video

We are currently filming our music video. We have filmed a majority of our footage that we need for video. Currently we are starting to edit the footage that we have but no more can be done until we have filmed all of our footage.

Animatic

This is the animatic to our final piece in A2 coursework. Hope you enjoy.

Story Board Broken Down

This is the broken down storyboard for our music video. We will be using a variety of shots and shot speeds for different scenes to add to the mood of the video. We will be using this storyboard for our animatic. Here are our initial ideas.

Camera work/framing: close up, full frame.

Notes: Black and white? Writing a song, it is raining outside.

Camera work/framing: Close up of face, side on shot.

Notes: Black and white? 'Won't you come on home?' - looking out of window.

Camera work/framing: Long shot, behind shot.

Notes: Walking away through long grass, guitar on back.

1) Camera work/framing: Mid shot, close up, extreme close up.

1) Notes: Cross legged in the grass playing the guitar.

2) Camera work/framing: close up, extreme close up, slow motion.

2) Notes: Dandelion blowing away in the wind. 

Camera work/framing: Long shot, zooming in slowly.

Notes: Playing guitar on a rock by the lake.

1) Camera work/framing: Extreme close up.

1) Notes: Holding a photo of the couple in a frame, taking the photo out of the frame.

2) Camera work/framing: Extreme close up, fading from home to Hainault.

2) Notes: Ripping up the photo.

Camera work/framing: Mid shot, close up.

Notes: Throwing the ripped up photo into the lake, close up of the pieces hitting the water.

Camera work/framing: Close up of face.

Notes: At home sitting on the bed, crying.

This is the broken down version of our story board hope you enjoy.

Emil Nava case study

Emil Nava

Emil Nava began his career as a runner for a film production company and went on to graduate and become an assistant director for Blink Productions where he managed video shoots. 

He then signed to Academy, one of, if not the biggest music video production company in the world. After moving on from this employer, he worked for Between The Eyes and now works mainly for Pulse as well as freelancing for OB Management.

When Emil first started making music videos for independent labels, the budget would be between £5,000 and £10,000. However, his first budget for one of the bigger companies was for the band Kid British with the song 'Our House'. The budget was £20,000 and included filming in Manchester using local people for 1 day, 2 to 3 days editing and 10 days for pre-production planning. This shows just how fast-paced the music video business is.

Emil has made some of the best known modern music videos to date for number 1 artists including Rita Ora, Paloma Faith, Ed Sheeran and Jessie J. Jessie J's video for 'Price Tag' had a budget of £160,000 - Nava's most expensive video ever to produce.

Jamie Thraves Case Study

Jamie Thraves

Jamie Thraves got his name on to the scene of directing because of his award winning short films he made at university. He used his short films as a 'calling card' to get a 'foot in the door' with the video production company factory films.

Jamie Thraves began making early short experimental films in 1989 at Hull University, having previously studied illustration . His graduation film Scratch(1991) and The Take-Out (1993) (made under the BFI New Directors scheme) both went on to win numerous awards at short film festivals worldwide. He joined the Royal College Of Art in 1993 where he made another award winning film, The Hackney Downs (1994). After leaving the RCA he joined Oil Factory, a music video company, making his breakthrough video for Radiohead for their song "Just" where a man lies on the pavement and is confronted by an angry crowd, this video garnered Thraves a lot of attention for its strong narrative structure and use of subtitles, what the man says to make the crowd lie down at the end of the video still manages to cause great discussion amongst fans some fifteen years later. Thraves made one more short film I Just Want To Kiss You (1997), starring Martin Freeman which won the Fox Searchlight Award for Best Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1998.