A2 Media Draft Video

Due to very unfortunate unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to film the entirety of our video to the best quality achievable. The camera we were planning on using was sent in for repair and various other non academic commitments led to the band members being changed last minute resulting in filming being of worse quality than first expected. The location we were planning on using was otherwise engaged and we had to resort to a friends band practice room in order to produce some footage for the draft. This resulted in the miss en scene not corresponding to our chosen genre and therefore making the video look abysmal. We all now well informed that our location will be available for us to use to film the final edit of our music video along with our original camera and band members. Ultimately, this should lead to the video being of the standard we first expected.

Shots

This is an over-shoulder shot from the video Frank Ocean – Lost where he is walking down the street, we believe this is a unique shot we could consider using, even though it is short the mise en scene shown in front of him can be effective. We can consider different aspects to put in front of him to relate to the genre/ song of the band in our narrative aspects of the video.

This is a classic close up shot, which we are most likely going to use. It follows the conventions of a lot of indie/alternative videos, Friendly Fires use this shot throughout the video ‘Kiss Of Life’. It is an easy way for us to demonstrate lip-syncing which will need to be involved during the video, especially at important parts in the vocals.

Foals video ‘Olympic Airways’ shows classic conventions of a close up focus shot on guitar strips being played. This is a convention that we are both content on using because it is simplistic but still fits well with the style of the video we chose to create.

This is another shot from the same Foals video. We like this shot because it involves the performance element that we out using in our video. We want a similar set up for when we start filming our own video; this includes guitarists and a drummer. We also like the mise en scene in the video; a basic performance video can be quite boring if the mise en scene is carefully thought through, this is why woodlands work well with the props used because it is the complete opposite of the instruments, peaceful. It will be a struggle for us to use this kind of mise en scene because we wont be able to access such woodlands with all the instruments we need, however we will try to create scenery which is similar or can be relevant to our video/lyrics/song.

This is a shot from Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle. It is a simplistic mid shot focusing on the vocals of singer. However with the vocals it always allows the audience to have attention drawn to the guitar he is playing and also the clothing he is wearing, in this case a long relatively big shirt with sleeves rolled up about 5 inches. This is a shot we are taking into consideration to using in our performance element of the video.

This shot is from King Krule – Easy Easy. The mise en scene is presumably at a train station, looking similar to one we live by. Therefore we believe we could use something similar to this in our video, the shot is a mid/long shot, showing elements of the mise en scene and also clothing to suit are type of genre(not including the draw string bag).