Costume & Jewellery Ideas

My Costume and Makeup Plan

An african print bangle to match with the earrings

African material print earrings 

Black Turtle neck long sleeved top 

 

Light Purple shade of lipstick 

Eyeliner wing

Storyboarding Pre- production

We jotted down our ideas from our lyric analysis sheet and inspirations. As this was not detailed enough we will draw our a
new story board above with more detail to focus on each relevant footage. 

E.M.V Production meeting

Marvellous, Elma & I discussing about the story board and editing techniques form our case study 

Writing out what we discussed and planning out our next step which was to complete the story board and working out when our next group meeting will take place.

Recce Marsh Lane Park and Theatre (club shoot)

Marsh Lane Park 

These are the images of where we'd possibly like to shoot the second verse of the track, at Marsh Lane. We chose this park because it has a basketball court and a path way near the court. This links to our idea/storyboard of the guy playing basketball by himself, then sees the girl jogging past the court and tries to get her attention while also lip syncing the second verse.

The basketball court for when the guy will be playing basketball.

Close up of the path way where the girl will be jogging from

We wouldn't need permission to film at this park as it is a pubic area. It may be busy if we filmed here especially if the weather is good so there may be distractions from the public (little kids playing around). The weather conditions would be problematic as we plan to shoot the scene when it's quite sunny.

Wide shot of the basketball court and the path way

The Alfred Hitchcock Theatre for the club location 

we will not be using these chairs for the scene because we want people on their feet dancing and not sitting down.

During the shoot of the club scene we may use this part of the hall because of the platforms on these seats,
we have permission to use the college hall 

we will be using the front of the hall for the club scene  as the story board shows that the club scene is full
even though it is spacious here we will use close ups and mid-shots to make it look like there is more people in the shot.

Group conversation via Whatsapp

via whatsapp

During the weekend we finalised the music track we will be using for our music video, we agreed to use the song from hulkshare.

we used the audio from hulkshare because the ones on youtube have been edited, we will take more footage so that there will be enough for lip synching, if we do not have enough footage we will fade the song.

Afrobeat- Case Study

Zagada - LDNC

Camera angles, shots and movement

Mid shot- and long shot to show what they are wearing and how they use the platforms to when they dance. I will use this shots and angles in our video.  Low angle shots on the stairs to show the concrete and the feet of the dancers, close ups in the beginning  this shows that the bag was important and is used in the video as their conceptual idea.

Movement: Panning is used in the video to make the actions easier to capture.

Editing: Shallow depth focus and focus pull to focus one person dancing.The cutting rate was increased to build tension for the audience, this makes the performance more interesting, we want to know what will happen next. There is transition from the black and white to colour. This moving image of black and white can be considered as a post-modern element. Titles and subtitles within the video are edited on. The speakers on the bag is edited to look bigger to show that the song is very loud.

The dance at the end was fast forwarded and the cutting rate was faster. There were less cut aways here because there were more people in the long shot and mid shot. We will be using this shot when our dancers will be together at the end dancing.
The black and white is our conceptual idea and the basketball location. As it does not link to the lyrics and is not what you usually see in an afro-beats music video.
These videos will influence our music video, we hope to use the Editing and low level shots and birds  eye view in our video to increase the performance of the music. Our audience will feel engaged through the visuals and the beat.

Prop:  The bag in the beginning looks like a speaker this is editing technique, it looks like the music was played through the prop.
Length: 5:53
Produced by Dr Smith

SYNOPSIS • The music video is about a guy in the studio and downloads a song to his phone (LDNC – Zagada) and plays the song put loud with a speaker bag. • The video continues of him roaming round the streets with him playing the song out loud and the people who hear the song starts to dance to the song. A girl from college, a guy coming out of work, a little girl in the café, 3 girls from secondary school and 2 guys near an alley way. • The video ends with the members of LDNC dancing to the song with everyone who featured in the video doing the zagada (a dance routine).

Narrative/Performance Based The music video has a simple narrative, which is a guy enjoying the track by playing it out loud with a speaker around the streets. This is a way of promoting the track through the music video. The video is also performance based. Throughout the video there are people dancing “The Zagada”. This is also a way for people/audience to know how to do the The Zagada (dance routine plus freestyle) The narrative and performance based are linked. The conceptual element could be the different locations and different people dancing differently to the track.

Target Audience The target audience for the track are people (male and female) who enjoy Afrobeat. Typically young people because the people in the video are young. They are encouraged to buy the track because throughout the video there are many examples of ways to dance to Zagada, which the audience would learn so they also will know how to do the Zagada.
Ideas to use for our music video 

1. Performance based with a dance routine and a short narrative throughout our music video.
2. The cutting rate is high, it goes well with the fast beat. It will be perfect for Drop-Vibesquad Promo video.
3.  Pull focus would be good to use to focus on a person or an object.

I will use the camera angles, black and white (monochrome) also I will include dancers to my music video to make it very lively. I will also increase the cutting rate of my music video.

Story Board: Pre-production

As our treatment was successful I will start part of the pre-production plan using the storyboard.

I will be using this storyboard to illustrate the footages and the camera techniques alongside the narrative as part of the pre-production stage 

I will be able to break down each verse using our drawings and editing techniques notes on the storyboard.

 It saves time if we know what shots and angles are next and what actor or actress is in the video.The team will be able to know what footage goes next after looking at the visuals, it helps us to aim to our common action goals.