Saturday 27 February 2016

MEST4 Linked production: Research and planning

1) Confirm your production briefCreate an original music video for a K-pop song of your choice


2) Research

                          
This music video uses a similar concept that I would like to use for my music video, having people who seem to be like grim reapers taking the dead to the afterlife. However, like the production I would want to create, this music video presents death in a somewhat positive and hopeful way. I think the idea of time being an important motif in the video is very good idea which will also work well in my production.


In this video, there is a very natural setting in a forest and this is the kind of setting that i would like to use in my music video. The girl's costume is also something that I would want my actress to be wearing. I would also like to include a scene with my actress and actor playing the guitar and singing together.



There are many shots of Taylor Swift walking through a forest and I would want many of my shots be very similar to these, except with a brighter tone and atmosphere. The costume is also very similar to what I would want my actress to be wearing. 

3) Project schedule:


Filming 08/02/16 onwards
Editing 08/02/16 onwards

4) Treatment

A girl is sitting on the staircase looking depressed and somber while arguing can be heard in the background, she runs up the stairs and rushes into her room. She grabs her tablet bottle and shakes a few pills in her hand and swallows them. A close up on her face as she closes her eyes and it fades to black.

Standing at the bus stop as cars drive past, she puts in an earphone and presses plays on a song. There is a close up on her face once again and she close her eyes for a moment and when she opens her eyes, she is in an entrance of a forrest with a lily in front of her. She turns around to look at the road and turns back to look at the forest. She grabs the lily and runs into the forest.

P walks around in the forest with the lily in her hand, in a bright and happy mood, doing various things to pass the time; picking up leaves, making pictures with twigs, sitting on a log and thinking.

As she walks into a clearing, she notices a guitar leaning against a tree. She goes towards the guitar cautiously and eventually picks it up and begins to play it slightly. While she is unaware, a boy walks into the clearing, looks at his watch, and when she does notice him, she is taken aback and steps away from the guitar. The boy carefully sits and begins to play the guitar and the girl is reassured and begins to bond with the boy by listening him to play and singing with him.

The boy and girl start doing things together in the wood; collecting leaves, making pictures with twigs, sitting on a log and thinking. However the boy keeps looking at his watch and the girl notices him 

After a while, the two return to the clearing. The boy looks at his watch one more time and then looks at the girl. She takes his two hands and holds them in her hands. As she does this, she remembers her past troubles and is finally ready to leave. She nods assuringly and lets go of his hands. The boy takes out a watch and gives it to her as a token to remember that time in the afterlife is forever. The boy lifts his hood over his head and the two start walking towards a field. They walk into the distance and disappear.  The lily is the final thing in the scene.


6) Shot list



Shot No.
Seconds
Shot
Description
1
3
Long
Shot from the left of the stairs with protagonist (P) sitting on the stairs
2
4
Long
Shot from the front of the stairs, P sitting on the stairs, she gets up, and runs up the stairs
3
1
Medium
Shot from the inside of the room of P coming into the room
4
3
Medium
Shot from the opposite side, P rushing to the table
5
5
Medium low angle
P taking her bottle of tablets, shaking a few onto her hand and then a pan from her hands to her mouth as she swallows the pills
6
3
Close up
Shot from the left side of P’s face and she sighs, fade to black
7
2
Long
Shot from across the road, P waiting at a bus stop
8
1
Close up
P’s phone
9
3
Medium
Shot from the right side of P, pan from her phone in her hand and then taking an earphone into her ear (music starts)
10
6 
Extreme Close up
 P’s closes her eyes and then opens them again
11
5  0.11
Long
P in the entrance of a wood with a lily in front of her, planted in the ground
12
3   0.11
Close up
P turning behind to look at the road
13
3   0.14
Medium close up
Shot from the other side, P turns around and faces the woods
14
3   0.17
Close up
Shot of the lily, P’s hand takes the lily
15
2   0.20
Long
P running into the woods with the lily in her hand
16
5   0.22
Close up
Tracking shot from behind, P walking with the lily in her hand
17
5   0.27
Medium
Tracking shot from the front, P walking
18
4   0.32
Medium
P crouching down picking up leaves
19
3   0.35
Medium Close up
Shot from the right side of her looking at leaves
20
4   0.39
Long
P stands up and dusts off her dress
21
4   0.43
Medium low angle
P sitting on a log looking around
22
3   0.46
Close up
Shot from the left, shot of her kicking her feet
23
5    0.51
Close up
Shot from the left, P smiling and looking up at the sky
24
3     0.54
Medium long
Tracking shot from the right, through some trees and branches, P walking
25
5     0.59
Close up
Shot from behind P, making a picture out of twigs and sticks
26
2     1.04
Close up
P smiling
27
2      1.06
Medium Long
P looking at something, curiously
28
3      1.09
Long
Over the shoulder shot of a clearing with a guitar leaning against a tree
29
5      1.14
Long
Guitar leaning against a tree and P, cautiously walking towards it
30
3      1.17
Medium Long
Shot from the right, P takes the guitar and plays it a little
31
2      1.19
Close up
Shot from the left P smiling and singing
32
5      1.24
Long
Shot over P’s head and a boy (B)  walks from the other side and notices P, looks at his watch and looks back up
33
4      1.28
Medium
Shot from the left side, P gets up suddenly
34
3    1.32
Medium
Shot from the right, B walks over to take the guitar and smiles
35
2    1.35
Medium
 P smiles
36
5    1.37
Medium
The two are sitting together playing the guitar
37
4    1.42
Medium
Shot from behind P + B are making a picture out of twigs
38
3    1.46
Medium close up
P+B look at each other smiling, b looks at his watch
39
2      1.49
Close up
B’s watch
40
3      1.51
Long
Tracking shot from behind, P+B walk together
41
2      1.54
Medium close up
Tracking shot facing P, P looking at B smiling
42
4      1.57
Medium
Tracking shot from the front, P+B walking together
43
5     2.01
Close up
P+B’s hands replanting the lily
44
 2     2.06
Medium
B stands up after crouching and takes his hand out
45
2      2.08
Close up
Shot from a high angle, facing P, who is looking at B’s hand then back up at B
46
4     2.10
Extreme close up
 P taking B’s hand
47
6     2.14
Medium long
P+B sitting on a log and holding hands and B lifts his hand to look at his watch
48
2      2.20
Close up
B’s watch
49
6      2.22
Medium
Shot from the left side, P looking at B looking at his watch and she looks a bit disappointed
50
4     2.28
Long
P and B walk back to the clearing, P is leading B
51
4      2.32
Medium long
P stops and B stops in front of her
52
2      2.36
Medium long
 Shot from the right, B is looking at P slightly confused
53
2      2.38
Medium Long
Shot from the left, P looks at B sadly and looks down at the floor
54
8     2.40
Medium long
P carefully takes B’s hands and holds them, fade to white
55
4      2.48
long
Flashback of P sitting on the stairs sad
56
3      2.52
Medium long
Shot from the left side, P still holding B’s hands, she has her eyes closed and seems in slight pain
57
2      2.55
Close up
Flash back of P taking the pills
58
6      2.57
Medium long
Shot from the left, P relaxes, lets out a sigh and opens her eyes
59
3      3.02
Medium long
Shot from the right B looks at P sadly
60
4     3.05
Medium long
Shot from the left, P nods assuring B
61
4     3.09
Close up
P slowly lets go of B’s hands
62
5      3.13
Medium long
Shot from the right, B takes out something from his pocket
63
2      3.18
Medium long
Shot from the left, P looks at B, confused
64
4      3.20
Medium long
B takes P’s hand and put’s something in it
65
4     3.24
Close up
P opens her hand and sees a watch
66
4      3.28
Medium long
Shot from the left, P brings the watch to her chest, and lets a small laugh out, almost going to cry
67
4    3.32
Medium Long
B pulls his black hood over his head
68
2      3.36
Medium Long
Shot from the right, B lets out a small smile, fade to black
69
7      3.38
Medium
Tracking shot from behind, P+B walk together towards a field
70
4     3.45
Low angle shot
P+B looking to the distance
71
6      3.49
Long
Shot from behind, P +B walking off into the distance and slowly fade out the shot
72
5      3.55
long
Shot of the landscape with P+B disappeared
73
4      3.59
Close up
Pan down to the shot of the lily, fade to black

7) Mise-en-scene:


Casting:  Girl - Ruth
              Boy - Mozwin

Locations:  House and Fryent Country Park




Props:  -Pills
           - Lily
           - Guitar
           - Watch

Costume:    Girl: Start of the video -  jumper and jeans with hair tied up
                          When the music starts - White dress, white shoes with hair out loose

                  Boy: Black t-shirt and black jeans with a black hoodie, watch