Ancillary Task: Poster Analysis

Practice Shots - Vocals

I decided to film some of the vocal parts of the music video as practice. I did it so that i could figure out some camera shots to use and so that Adam could get try out some different movements while singing as I don't want him to just stand still during it all. Hopefully he's going to be free next week so I can film the proper thing, I'm going to figure out some proper moves for him to do and think about the best camera angles for each part of the song. Obviously for the real thing I'll move the background objects such as the chair. I tried out using the black and white filter as I think it looks more like it's part of a music video this way.

Theatre

I think the best place to film the vocal parts of the video will be the theatre, I've talked to the teacher who uses it most and asked him when its free so that we can match it up with Adam's free time.

Cast~

We have had a few casting issues as the singer we had chosen dropped out last minute but luckily we managed to convince our friend Adam to be the singer who is willing to film as soon as next week.
He has already started learning the song so he will be able to mime it well. We decided that he will dress in black, rock-style clothes and we now just need to figure out when he's free and where we can film.

More possible location shots

Finished Brief

This is the new updated brief for the narrative part of our music video:

We want it to make it over the top to match with the comical theme. The story will consist of two main characters, one will be a stereotypical 'nerd' and the other will be a bully. We will show clips of the conflict between both characters, some parts may be humorous. The 'nerd' is a huge fan of comics and takes inspiration from them, we are shown this by clips of him reading comics and having comic posters in his locker, etc. After getting more inspiration from his comics, he starts thinking of what it would be like if he was a superhero.

We are shown clips of him designing his superhero persona and designing the bully as a villain. The drawings he created will take up the frame and change from a  drawing to real life film- showing his imagination in action. We will switch between reality and his imagination (what we see in the drawings- the hero defeating the villain). We will use some sort of filter so you can tell that the imagination parts aren't actually happening and can tell the difference between them both.

Eventually the 'nerd' really likes the idea of being a superhero and standing up for himself so he tries dressing up and making his imagination a reality. However, (we will make sure he dresses deliberately bad/ridiculous)  it does not compare to his fantasy and the reality of it, he looks very strange. For comical purposes, we will have many clips of him looking stupid, (for example, having his cape blowing in the wind- its getting blown by a visible fan and the cape blows over his face)
Others around him keep giving him confused expressions and laughing at him but he ignores it.
Eventually he goes over and stands up to the bully but the bully eventually walks away because of how stupid the whole situation is, making the 'nerd' think its a victory and he has stood up for himself.

Throughout this, there will also be clips of the performance part of the music video with the singer singing parts of the song, which is a common element in music videos. He will not be part of the storyline, he will be filmed in a separate location.


Afterwards we will create a storyboard to show all of this narrative in more detail.

Casting

Another difficult part of the planning is finding people to actually play the roles. We've asked quite a few people already and still no positive response. We are going to properly write up our brief soon so that we can actually see how many people we will need and the exact roles of them as we have an overall idea but we want it to be as accurate as possible. Apart from the actual narrative characters, we'll need a male singer for the singing parts, we are going to ask a few people that do performance/music in school to see if anyone would be interested. Over the weekend, we have a huge list of people to ask if they'll be in our video, we'll give them a description of our music video to see if they are interested. We want to start filming straight away after the weekend so hopefully this goes well. Once we find people we will take pictures of them and put them in a post alongside a description of the role they'll be playing in the video. We may also need pictures of them for our ancillary task later on where we will be making a digipak and a  music video/cd poster.