Permissions to use Locations

We are filming all of our music video in the Studio, including the band preformences, and the dolls house sets so because of this, we dont need to ask anyone for permission to shoot. We also dont have any special set requirements, we are building our own set and will supply most of the props, including the dolls house.

Casting: the Band

Our Band Name

Shooting Schedule

8:30-9:45= Bedroom Shots (Narrative)

BREAK- MOVE SET

10:00-11:00= Bathroom Shots (Narrative)

BREAK- MOVE SET

11:15-12:30= Living Room Shots (Narrative)

LUNCH BREAK- MOVE SET

1:15-3:00= Kitchen Shots (Narrative)

BREAK- MOVE SET

3:15-4:00= Band Setting Up (Performance)

BREAK

4:15- 5:30= Band Performing (Performance)

BREAK

5:45- 6:20= Band with Dolls House (Performance)

FINISH

Clothing in the Narritive

Clothing for Mardybum Music Video by annabelhales

Similar Bands

Props List

Storyboard Animatics and evaluation

We edited our storyboard together using the software Final Cut Pro to produce the animatics for our music video. Animatics are extremely useful to have when it comes to producing the music video, it visually shows us what it is going to look like and helps us to see if we need to change any shot choices to help us to achieve exactly what we need when it comes to the actual shoot, as well as reminding us how to use final cut pro and how to cut the clips to music successfully.

I think our animatics were very successful, we have cut the storyboard in relation to the beat of the song whilst using range of different shot lengths to keep the pace going and keep the viewers interest.

Creating the animatic ensures that we have enough shots to fit the song, I was worried that we would not have enough however by creating the animatic it made me realise that the amount of shots that we have produced is perfect.

The only weakness of our animatic is that some of the drawings were not done to the highest standard however I dont think this really matters, just to get the overall perspective of what the video will look like. I think that we will more or  use this animatic as a guideline when producing our storyboard and will try to use all these elements when producing our music video.

I think the narrative represents the star image quite well, it is presented in an alternative Indie style as the music video will feature a confusing "perfect world" which is falling apart, using surreal looking dolls and interesting quirky sequences, which I think would appeal to our "alternative" target audience. I also think we have constructed our band to reflect our star image very well.

Set Design

Today, we had a meeting with Scott, The set designer. We proposed our plans to him and showed him our set design drawings for him to tell us weather our ideas are possible to create, as well as getting some advice as to how we could make our designs better, and to here his opinions on our plans.

First we showed Scott the drawings we produced of the overall view of the dolls house (above) Which we created as it clearly shows us what the layout of the house looks like and what rooms are where During this meeting Scott suggested that instead of filming the band in the school basement/ hallway (that we originally intended) it would be better if we shot it in the studio and created a set for it. This is because the shape of the basement in my dolls house is quite wide whilst the corridor we were thinking of is very long and thin. Filming in the studio also allows us to control the lighting much easier.

The set designer also suggested that we put the sets of two rooms next to each other in the studio enable us to achieve the right perspective of a dolls house. as well as making it more practical and convenient as our plans are to film the actors in one room and then pan across horizontally to a different situation in another room. We are planning on filming in a similar style to one of the music videos created by Hurtwood last year called Anti love song, in this video they also show panning from one room to the next.



Scott  also suggested that we put both rooms on stilts so that we can pan downwards from the bathroom to the basement for the band performance.

Scott also suggested that we use dark lighting in the room, in order to juxtapose our idea or "the perfect world" to create a more moody almost gothic atmosphere, As it will make our finished product of the dolls house look more realistic, as well as linking with the household objects turning into cardboard and the couple fighting

Male Cast

These are the people we have in mind to play the men.

Will Van Der Wayden

If Will is unavailable, we'll use Fin because he has brown hair and is also good looking. He's taller than the female actors, is of a similar build to Will and is also easy-going

Female Cast

These are the girls we have in mind to play the women in our video

Leila Toulmin

We chose Leila because she's blonde and classically beautiful as well as being petite and a talented actor

 Gigi Rice

 If Leila is unavailable, we will use Gigi in our video as she also has blonde hair, has classic beauty, is petite and a talented actor.

Evaluating My Storyboard by annabelhales

Letter to record company asking for permission

To Domino record company,

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track ‘Mardy Bum’ by the Artic Monkeys.

With your permission the track ‘Mardy Bum’ would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Annabel Hales
Hurtwood House School

Our Band Name

We have decided to call our band name "wonderland" as we think that it fits in with the theme of an ideal perfect world which corrosponds to the message that we are trying to portray in our music video, that everyone ants to be in their ideal "wonderland" but in reality this doesn't exist. 

STORYBOARD

Editing our storyboard

We used the footage that we took of the storyboards in the previous lesson to create a sequence, which we will put to the music to show what our music video will look like. We used the program "final cut pro" on the mac computers to edit the sequence. Firstly we uploaded the shots that we took the previous day and copied them into final cut pro. Then we organised out sequences into different categories by putting them into different log bins, for example we put the bands in one bin. This enable us to find the sequences that we wanted more easily. Then we inserted the track onto Final cut pro and listened to the track. Then we went through the track for a second time and found the areas which stood out to us from the beat and highlighted them with a red marker.  Then we cut the sequences according to the beat of the music. Our plan was to Place the shots in order onto the cutting area however as we began to do this we decided that we didn't have enouf footage of the band playing (as they are the star image that will sell their track)  so we changed the sequences around and found areas where it would be appropriate to put the band in instead of narrative.

Filming the storyboard

During a lesson, Francesca and I filmed the Animatic for our storyboard. We went into the studio and set up a tripod and set the camera up. We then white balanced the camera, focussed it and zoomed in on each individual drawn picture. We filmed each picture for 5seconds each so that we can cut the shots together in the editing suite. We have 89 shots in total which we plan to cut together as we will for the real thing.

Examples of props we will use when the furniture turns to cardboard