CONSTRUCTION: LOCATION

CONSTRUCTION:TABLE SCENE (SCENE 1)

Today we started filming the first scene of our music video of the couple sitting opposite each other at a dining room table.
Our main objectives:

• candle-lit romantic lighting that delivered atmosphere but also clarity
• convincing lip synching using ECU
• sharp focus

Our outcomes:

• good atmosphere in candlelit scene 
• concerns about sharpness of focus
• successful lip-synching

PLANNING: STORYBOARD

PLANNING:STORYBOARD

I created an animoto to present the main scenes of our music video- a more detailed version is made as a youtube clip above

storyboard

PLANNING: MISE EN SCENE

I used Pinterest to collect images of our location, props, and costumes 

Here is my Pinterest 

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PLANNING: CALL SHEETS 3

PLANNING:CALL SHEETS 2

PLANNING: CALL SHEETS

PLANNING: EDITING TECHNIQUES

Slow Motion: I plan to use slow motion in the chorus scenes of the song 'Wrecking Ball'. In this scene i want to show the couple arguing with the lyrics over there speech so they are just seen mouthing there argument. Moreover i want to film the china on the table being thrown and smashed against the wall or kitchen table. This link i found will help me achieve this effect well.
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE SLOW MOTION EFFECT WELL!

Cutaway: My music video involves a vast amount of cutaway shots as the story line involves the couple transitioning from the real world, to the fairytale world. Shooting seamless and well-planned cutaways can add depth and dimension to your story.
HOW TO ACHIEVE CUTAWAY EDITING WELL!

Short Takes: The lyrics at the beginning are fast paced and choppy, so i had the idea of several shot reverse shots between the man and the women. I want the camera in close up and show there faces in neutral expression. This involves in editing to cut the scenes and stop and start them.

Other shot types: 

Close Up

Medium Close up

Medium shots

PLANNING: HOW MY BAND DEVELOPED ITS STAR BRAND

 Miley Cyrus has rapidly transformed  from a child pop star to a much more provocative and mature solo act. A lot of child stars fade from fame as they grow and later re-emerge as developed adults, but Cyrus is different, because she never really left the spotlight. We’ve been watching her grow up and define herself as an adult.

The daughter of country singer Billy Rae Cyrus, she has had minor roles in television series throughout her childhood. Cyrus rose to prominence as a teen idol after appearing on the Disney channel: this is significant because her audience and fan base grew to have certain expectation that she would remain the wholesome innocent star that she started out as. She then signed a recording contract with Disney-owned Hollywood records in 2007 where she combined Hannah Montana the TV Disney series with her music career. The soundtrack became a number 1 in the USA. By the time she was 18 she had seven top ten hits on billboard hot 100.

Cyrus said that Britney Spears has been powerful influence for her, which makes sense. Spears topped the charts when Cyrus was growing up. "The way I am about Britney," Cyrus said in the documentary, "that’s the way a lot of people are about me. She was my first record. I was a lot of people’s first album. First idol. I’ll be a die hard fan for Britney, always.”

Source: E Online. http://goo.gl/yyEzxp 26.08.13

Cyrus has developed her brand through being active on social networks, and even visited Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Cyrus artfully juggles being a celebrity and being a regular person. She regularly interacts with the media and with her fans, but makes sure to take time for herself. CLICK HERE TO VIEW MILEYS TWITTER PAGE

In 2007 she went on tour with the Jonas brothers, another pop sensation . Tickets sold out in minutes. On the conclusion of the tour Walt Disney Pictures released Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus 'Best of both worlds'. It earned over $31 million. 

In 2009 Cyrus launched her clothing line and was promoted with her first play.  
In 2008  she began transitioning into an adult image, she negotiated a film deal introducing her to an older audience.
In 2012 generated media attention after cutting her traditionally long brown hair in favour of a pixie style haircut. 

If there’s one thing we learnt from MTV's Video Music Awards (VMAs), it’s that Cyrus is a very different person than the adorable little girl we once knew. The VMAs were the moment when the world realised just how different she’d become. Cyrus made it clear that she doesn't regret her decisions, and that she's dedicated to being true to herself.

Speaking about her performance at the VMAs, Cyrus said, "I am very comfortable with sexuality. I like pushing the boundaries." This could be applied to the rest of her transformation. Her recent hits, "We Can’t Stop" and "Wrecking Ball," both displayed the ways in which she’s changed over the past few years.

                                                        (VIDEO HERE) 

The fashion and documentary photographer Terry Richardson has helped to rebrand Cyrus from squeaky clean Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel to pouting provocateur. In a recent set of shots he has her doing something suggestive with a fizzy-drink can. Sineas O'Connor wrote an open letter to Cyrus urging her not let the music industry "make a prostitute" out of her. 

PLANNING: AMATEUR V PROFESSIONAL

In Avril Lavigne's music video, Alice,  it portrays Avril as transitioning between a reality and dream world. The dream world portrays Avril wearing a long gothic dress, whereas the reality shows her wearing everyday, normal clothing.
We, too, are planning on having our artist transition between a reality and  fantasy-dream like world. However, in our video, the reality world represents the artists true feelings and emotions about her break -up, whereas the fantasy world represents a happy, ideal state of mind

In Rihanna's music video, Stay, there are many extreme close ups of her singing, as the camera lingers on not just her lips, but on other features, including her eyes. In our music video, we plan to film many extreme close-up shots of our artists lips as she sings. These extreme close-ups include tears falling from our artists eyes to convey a sense of emotion that the viewer can also share.

We are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift includes shots of the couple fighting. Our music video is also about a break up, and we have decided to also include a few seconds shot of our couple fighting. Unlike Taylor swifts music video which is quite playful, we have decided to take a more serious approach to the filmed shots.

Cher Llyods music video With Your Love also contains images and shots which follow a fairy-tale like story. In this shot, Cher Llyod is bottling up a 'love potion' which she then puts in her 'magic' pot later to cast a spell. In our music video, we are also taking a fairy-tale like approach, and  using this idea of a 'love potion' to represent the captivating and uncontrollable love our artist has for her 'man'. We are going to have a close up of the man handing the girl the love potion.

Gabrielle Aplin makes use of good lighting in her music video, The Power of Love. She uses fairy-lights to create a very serene and peaceful environment as she sings about love. We have decided to use similar lighting  when our artists enters this 'dream like' world. In one of our shots, we also plan to use fairy-lights to create a happy, romantic and peaceful setting showing a time when the couple were still together. In other shots, we might just use sunlight to create a mesmorising and dream like world which our artist occasionally enters into.

The music video Don't Come around here no more, by Tom Petty,  follows the storyline of Alice and Wonderland by including shots of Alice meeting the caterpillar and shots of her at the mad hatters tea party. We also plan to follow the story line of Alice and Wonderland to represent our fairytale/dream world. Our artist will also be dressed in an Alice and Wonderland costume and will  'attend' a mad hatters tea party, however this tea party isn't used as anything but to represent this fairy-tale world and follow the story line of Alice.

PLANNING: SCRIPTS FOR MY VIDEO

I keep on top of all current news relating to my Advanced Production - such as the moral panics surrounding Miley Cyrus and the impact of her behaviour on impressionable teenage girls – by accessing newspapers online. In my video, I am seen referring to the article under discussion by Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times.

For Will Hodgkinson, writing in The Times (‘Girls who succeed in pop without twerking’ 08.10.13) there are teen pop stars like Lorde, Birdy and Nina Nesbitt who succeed on their own terms without any of the antics of Miley Cyrus. He writes: ‘Lorde is just one of a new generation of young, female pop stars who are resisting such objectification. Charli XCX from Hertfordshire, who started her recording career at 14, writes smash hits for other acts when she isn’t being a teen idol herself: she penned the Swedish duoIcona Pop’s ­recent No 1 I Love It, a banging ode to being young, reckless, and loving it.’

Hodgkinson observes that the success of such an uncompromising singer has come in a week when sexism in the music industry has been in focus once again. Giving the John Peel Lecture for BBC 6 Music on Monday, former child star Charlotte Church said of the early years of her career: “There was a big clamour to cover my breasts as they wanted to keep me as young as possible. Then it became, ‘You should definitely get them out. They look great!’”

This week, the Girl Guides leader has also spoke out against the way that girls are 
represented in the media, claiming that her organization speaks for all feminists in rejecting sexualisation of children and the unprecedented levels of pornography in the music and advertising industry.

PLANNING:TARGET AUDIENCE: SOUNDCLOUD

Sources:
Time Magazine Poniewozik, James (October 18, 2007). "Hurricane Hannah". Time (Time Inc.). Retrieved May 5, 2010.
Carol Midgely The Times 08.10 2013; quotations from Annie Lennox on Facebook
Vanity Fair 'Tween Angel' 08.04.2008

PLANNING: LYRICS ANALYSIS

Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus 

stablishing, two person shot, of a couple facing opposite eachother on a dining room table
To the beat, shot reverse shot of girl and boy neutral expressions

We clawed (girl), we chained (boy), our hearts in vain (girl)
We jumped (boy), never asking why (girl)

We kissed girl kisses the boy, in normal clothes when she pulls away she suddenly appears in an Alice in wonderland costume (dream world)  
I fell under your spell- Flashback to the beat. location (forest) or somewhere romantic where they first met. close up of their hands coming together. boy hands her the love potion, Alice in Wonderland type theme

A love no one could deny-(dream like), (fairy lights) 

Don't you ever say I just walked away- Boy mouths 'i love you' shes doesnt say it back (does love him really but didn't show it so boy leaves her) 
I will always want you
I can't live a lie, running for my life- chasing through the woods
I will always want you

Chorus:
I came in like a wrecking ball-cuts to slow motion arguing of couple trashing place,throwing cutlety, smashing china, slow motion. 
I never hit so hard in love. All I wanted was to break your walls-(reality)
All you ever did was wreck me
Yeah, you, you wreck me- cuts to reality, close up of girls tears, boys hands clenched

I put you high up in the sky-(performance, me singing) close up
And now, you're not coming down
It slowly turned, you let me burn-girl standing behind fire, mean't to look like she is burning and metaphorically inside
And now, we're ashes on the ground-cuts to 2 cigarettes, burning down into ash in ashtray

Don't you ever say I just walked away-scrunching hair (back into dream) arieal shot of her in a dream, her hand still holding the love potion
I will always want you- set out like Mad Hatters tea party, everything is happy, couple smiling and pouring eachother drinks
I can't live a lie, running for my life
I will always want you

I came in like a wrecking ball- (dream world) ripps off Alice in Wonderland costume, to reveal an edgy look (shorts, crop top but not trashy) 
I never hit so hard in love-cuts to powder paint being thrown, slow motion, drum kit being hit, white room (song xperia advert) 
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wreck me
I came in like a wrecking ball-powder paint
Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung- running through woods in clothes
Left me crashing in a blazing fall
All you ever did was wreck me
Yeah, you, you wreck me

I never meant to start a war-shot reverse shot boy and girl, camera following movements like on a roundabout, close up
I just wanted you to let me in
And instead of using force
I guess I should've let you win
I never meant to start a war
I just wanted you to let me in
I guess I should've let you win

Don't you ever say I just walked away- drop love potion and walks away
I will always want you- extreme close up of lips and mouths the last lines 

PLANNING: SHOT LIST

This is what we have come up with so far for our shot list. During the process, we might add and make changes to this table

SOUND VOICE_OVER	VISION	ACTORS	PROPS	NOTES
INTRO OF PRECUSSION	ESTABLISHING SHOT, TWO PERSON SHOT OF A COUPLE FACING OPPOSITE EACH OTHER ON A DINING ROOM TABLE	JO + TJ	CUTLERY, PLATES, TABLE CLOTH, DINNING ROOM TABLE	TO THE BEAT, SHOT REVERSE SHOT OF GIRL AND BOY  NEUTRAL EXPRESSIONS
‘ WE CLAWED’	CLOSE UP ON GIRL	JO	N/A	NEUTRAL EXPRESSION, MOUTHING THE WORDS
‘WE CHAINED’	REACTION SHOT OF BOY	TJ	N/A	QUICK EDITING TO THE BEAT
‘ OUR HEARTS OM VAIN’	SHOT REVERSE SHOT GIRL	JO	N/A
‘WE JUMPED’	REACTION SHOT OF BOY	TJ	N/A
‘NEVER ASKING WHY’	LOW SHOT; SHOT REVERSE SHOT	JO	N/A
‘WE KISSED, I FELL UNDER YOUR SPELL’	FLASHBACK TO THE BEAT. LOCATION (FOREST) WHERE THEY FIRST MET CLOSE UP OF THEIR HANDS COMING TOGETHER. BOY HANDS HER THE LOVE POTION	TJ/JO	LOVE POTION, LITTLE BOTTLE WITH LABEL	LOCATION HORSEL WOODS – BOY HANDS HER LOVE POTION
‘A LOVE NO ONE COULD DENY’	DREAM LIKE, FAIRY LIGHTS _ SILHOUTTES OF THEM AND THEIR HANDS TOGETHER	JO/ TJ	FAIRY LIGHTS
‘DON'T YOU EVER SAY I JUST WALKED AWAY I WILL ALWAYS WANT YOU	BOY MOUTHS “I LOVE YOU” SHE DOESN'T SAY IT BACK	N/A		DOES LOVE HIM REALLY BUT DOESN'T SHOW IT SO BOY LEAVES HER
I CAN’T LIVE A LIE, RUNNING FOR MY LIFE	BOY AND GIRL CHASING EACH OTHER THROUGH THE WOODS	JO/ TJ		SLOW MOTION LOW ANGLE SHOT OF FEET RUNNING ON GROUND
I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL	CUTS TO SLOW MOTION ARGUING OF COUPLE TRASHING PLACE, THROWING CUTLERY, SMASHING CHINA, SLOW MOTION		CUTLERY, CHINA, TABLE
(CONTINUED)
‘ALL YOU EVER DID WAS WRECK ME, YEAH YEAH YOU WRECK ME’	REALITY- CLOSE UP OF GIRLS TEARS- BOYS HANDS CLENCHED
I PUT YOU UP IN THE SKY	PERFORMANCE CLOSE UP OF LIPS > MATCHING THE LYRICS	JO		DARK LIGHT ON FACE BUT DARK ALL AROUND< LIKE A SPOTLIGHTS ON FACE
IT SLOWLY TURNED, YOU LET ME BURN	GIRL STANDING BEHIND FIRE, MEAT TO LOOK LIKE SHE IS BURNING  METAPHORICALLY INSIDE	JO		REALITY
AND NOW YOUR ASHES ON THE GROUND	CUTS TO 2 CIGARETTES, BURNING DOWN INTO ASH IN ASHTRAY	CIGARETTES, ASHTRAY, TABLE		CLOSE UP
DON'T YOU EVER SAY –I JUST WALKED AWAY	SCRUNCHING HAIR (BACK INTO DREAM) AERIAL SHOT OF HER IN A DREAM< HER HAND STILL HOLDING THE LOVE POTION
I WILL ALWAYS WANT YOU	SET OUT LIKE MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY, EVERYTHING HAPPY, SMILING AND POURING EACHOTHER DRINKS			NAPKINS TABLE CLOTH CUPCAKE STAND TEAPOT
(CONTINUED)
I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL	(DREAM WORLD) RIPS OFF ALICE IN WONDERLAND COSTUME, TO REVEAL AN EDGY LOOK (SHORTS, CROP TOP BUT NOT TRASHY)	JO
I NEVER HIT SO HARD BEFORE	CUTS TO POWDER PAINT BEING THROWN, SLOW MOTION, DRUM KIT BEING HIT WHITE ROOM (SONY XPERIO ADVERT)			POWDER PAINT DRUNK KIT
(CONTINUED)	POWDER PAINT SLOW MOTION
“YEAH, I JUST CLOSED…..YOU WRECK ME’	RUNNING THROUGH WOODS IN CLOTHES
I NEVER MEANT TO START A WAR	SHOT REVERSE SHOT BOY + GIRL, CAMERA FOLLOWING MOVEMENT ON A ROUNDABOUT, CLOSE UP
( CONTINUED)
DON’T YOU EVER SAY…WANT YOU	DROPS LOVE POTION + WALKS AWAY EXTREMEM CLOSE UP OF LIPS AND MOUTHS THE LAST LINE