Pre-production project outline

Project outline:

What is the type of production?

My group and I are making our own interpretation of an existing music video, using narrative to make it different.

What are your ideas for a media production?

Our ideas for this production are to create a gripping narrative with the inspiration from the analysis of the lyrics to the song with some snippets from the original video (the band playing) as filler within our own video.

The client?

Our client will be the band in this particular music video, Of Mice And Men, with one of their songs named bones exposed.

What copyright issues will need to be addressed?

In our own take of the music video we are going to be using clips of the band playing from the original music video, in order to combat the issues of copyright we will only use small clips of the band in order to not breech any copyright issues. We will source these clips from the music video from their original video off the media sit YouTube.

What clearances are required?

To have our music video cleared we will need consent to create a cover or to use some of their existing video, but as my group and I are an amateur group we do not wish to make any money from it, thus not being a threat to the original band, this intern will let us use the already existing video in our own.

What ‘talent’ do you require?

The talents we would require would be actors or others that wouldn’t mind being on camera or acting.

What crew do you require?

We require a camera man/woman, the actors for the video and director. We can source these from other students we know with experience or that are knowledgeable.

What post-production equipment do you require?

After research and testing we found tat a editing software called  ‘adobe premiere pro’  and we will buy a MAC computer:

Processor- 2.5 GHz Intel Core 15

Memory- 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics- Intel HD graphics 4000 512 MB

Software- OS X 10.8.5 (12F4S)

What are your transport requirements?

The transport requirements we could use van hire to ensure the transportation of our equipment to other locations. We could source this van or care from hiring websites from the Internet.

What production equipment do you require?

The equipment we will need in order to go through with our remake music video will be a camera and tripod.

We can source these from already having these items or buying them online.

What facility hire is required?

The facilities that my group and I will use are all assessable without hiring, as we will use the outside sources and spaces.

What finances will you require and what’s your budget?

What other materials do you require?

	Budget	£10,000.00
	Equipment	price	Price requirements	Req for	Total price
	Camera	£360.00	NULL	3	£360.00
	Tripod	£19.97	NULL	3	£19.97
	Van hire	£43.00	Per day	3	£129.00
	Replacement actors	£10.00	per hour	24	£240.00
	Camera assistant	£280.00	per day	3	£840.00
	Driver	£120.00	per day	3	£360.00
	Mac (OP)	£1,049.00	Null		£1,049.00
	Premiere Pro	£42.79	Null		£42.79
	Overall price	£3,040.76
	Left over from budget	£6,959.24
	Props	Price
	Prop wedding rings X2	£9.00
	Photo frame	£4.50
	Suitcase	£59.00
	Food colouring	£1.09
	Red beer cups	£2.50
	Sugar glass (home made)	£32.40
	Overall price	£108.49
	Left over from budget	£6,850.75

Thursday, February 04, 2016 3:27 PM

Cast for the Video

 This list is the cast of people we have considered for the video as well as the locations we will be filming at. I believe these people are true representations of the characters and that the locations will help with conveying the message of the song.

·      Director: Jamie Carr

·      Executive Directors: Jacob Mitchell, Emily Gibbard

Lee Matthews: Jamie Carr

Alison Gray: Becky Utting

Group of Friends: Nathan Fisher, Callum Hope

Stacey: Strom Faulke-Hemsley

Sympathetic Friends: Charlotte Ridler, Olivia Wilkes 

Location Considerations

Lee and Alison’s Home: Jamie’s House

Underpass: Underpass in Glascote near Deltic Pitch

House Party Location: Jacob’s House

Alley: Alley’s in Glascote

Production Schedule

In terms of production, we will be recording the video over a 3-day period. Starting from the 8th February and going to the 10th February. In the first day we'll be recording the first verse up until the first chorus and on the second day we'll continue from the end of the 1st chorus up until the start of the 2nd chorus and on the last day of recording we will finish up the last bits that need to be recorded as well as redoing any scenes if we run out of times on the previous days.

Regulation on music videos

Regulation on music videos is important to ensure younger, more innocent audiences don’t see adult content, another reason for censorship would be because some viewers could be offended by what is put into certain music videos.

Music videos now are becoming more subversive so the regulatory body has had to put age ratings on the music videos and content, this is to protect the viewers from potentially offensive or vulgar videos made, the Guardian article on regulations states  “The long-term aim is to warn consumers about the content they view online, and to give parents a degree of control over what their children are exposed to, by enabling filters to be set on home computers and mobile devices”

As the music videos get censored the artist will become a talking point, more popularity will come from certain parts or all the video being banned or age rated.

Our generation becomes more curious to things we’re not allowed and putting age ratings on songs will just make people want to watch them more.

Can we censor in the age or the Internet and virility?

“Driven on by a viral internet culture that requires constant one-upmanship and videos that are not only increasingly ridiculous”- The Guardian.

This statement would mean that the way the regulation body is censoring the videos more artists will do It and make their even more shocking than the last, this would mean that the popularity is increases for their music video and their persona.

Copyright in music videos

In our own take of the music video we are going to be using clips of the band playing from the original music video, in order to combat the issues of copyright we will only use small clips of the band in order to not breech any copyright issues.

We will source these clips from the music video from their original video off the media sit YouTube and in order to have our music video cleared we will need consent to create a cover or to use some of their existing video, but as my group and I are an amateur group we do not wish to make any money from it, thus not being a threat to the original band, this intern will let us use the already existing video in our own.

Semiotics.

Smashing of photo of couple à showing his anger towards arguments and fallouts between the two. Shows him not wanting to see her at that particular time. Not being happy in the relationship.

Throwing ring on the floor and leaving à this could mean he has had enough of the arguing and doesn’t want anymore. Throwing the ring on the floor could mean the braking of promises (their vows). Not feeling loved in the relationship anymore.

Getting drunk à trying to forget the situation. Drowning out his thoughts. Trying to get over it.

Getting taken advantage of à vulnerability in that specific situation. Friends may have set it up for him to try to get over his wife.

Wife appears and puts her hand on his shoulder à almost an apologetic gesture. Support? Wanting to piece everything back together. First step to sorting things out. Not wanting to lose him

Duration and Pace

The duration of the song is about 3 and half minutes and within that time we are hoping to deliver a message that even when times seem rough and if there’s no hope, there will always be light at the end of it all. At the beginning of the video, our credits play and it stats off with the protagonist going through troubles with his love life and he then leaves her and falls into a root of darkness and seeks salvation at the bottom of a bottle.

 Around the middle of the video, he is taken advantage of in his condition and the next we see him he is waking up in a random alley way where a couple of his friends find him and take him back home.

Finally the song concludes with his wife returning to him and then placing her hand on his shoulder and after which the video plays in reverse and it goes back to where it all began.

The video will be going at a somewhat fast pace as we have a lot ground to cover within the video itself. But it won’t be going too fast so that we can make sure that viewer isn’t confused about what’s happening. 

Style of the music video.

The style of the song we’re using is heavy metal as this is the style the band is most known for. Although the song itself isn’t too streamlined as the song does contain small amounts filler with the main vocalists screaming from a few seconds bridging into some verses.   

Narrative and Meanings

Annotated lyrics

 Risk assessment.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:35 PM

Possible Risk	Impact	How to prevent
Corrupt video.	This will slow us down and will result in reshoots.	Multiple copies of the scenes will be saved onto different storage devices.
Broken equipment.	If a camera breaks we will have to use valuable recording time in order to repair or replace it.	Cameras will be stored correctly and with care so we can transport them with ease without risk of damage.
Run out of breakable props (scene requires photo frame to smash).	If we make only 1 sugar glass frame and the shoot doesn’t go as planned it will take time to create another.	As scenes will need to be reshot I will create many photo frames so we can clean up and reset as fast as possible.
Actor can’t make it to recording.	This will mean a whole day could go by where no progress has been made.	2 possible recording sessions will be planned as backup in the case that neither of the actors can make it I will save clips to edit for days like that.
Injury	Crewmember injured will have to sit out to recover.	All basic risk assessment procedures will take place such as moving sharp/ breakable object out of the actors way (cables, small objects ECT.) first aid box will be just aside of set

Storyboards