Music Video - First Draft

Research and Planning - Treatment and StoryBoard

Before we could start filming we had to design a storyboard, in this storyboard we included what is going to happen in each shot and what kind of shot it will be. Below is some pictures of our storyboard.

Research and Planning - Chosen Track

The track me and Shaneece decided to use for our music video is the song 'sing sing' by the canadian band Marianas Trench.



Before we could use the track we first had to ask for permission,shaneece emailed 604 records who manage the band and explained why we needed the track and if it would be okay if we could use it. The email shaneece sent and there reply is below.

"Dear 604 Records,

We are two students, aged 17, from England doing a College A-Level coursework project for Media Studies. This project requires us to do a music video.
Our College is George Spencer College in Nottinghamshire, UK. The requirements of our coursework states that if a band is signed we need permission from the record label of the artist and the track should not already have a music video. The music video would not be used for commercial means and would only be put onto Youtube and our blogs we make for our coursework project.

We are huge fans of Marianas Trench and would be honoured if you could please grant us permission to use one of their tracks that don't already have a music video.
The track we would love to do a music video for is 'Sing Sing' from the Masterpiece Theatre album.

We look foward to hearing back from you,

Thanks,

Shaneece Deep & Patricia Sheehan of George Spencer College - UK."


The email was as follows:


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:34:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Marianas Trench
From: jonathan@604records.com
To: shaneece_deep@hotmail.com

Hi Shaneece.

On the basis of this note, the permission is granted.
Thanks.

JS


On 10-09-07 3:30 AM, "shaneece deep" wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

This won't be used for any commercial means as it is merely a school/college project for our subject of Media Studies in order for us to get a grade towards our qualification for A-Level Media Studies.

Basically the project outline is to make a music video to a track that we have permission for;
We would have to film a music video that we devise for the track and then after we have put it together we would upload it onto Youtube.com or another video streaming website for our examiners. It will not be used anywhere else for any commercial/promotional means.

As we need to document the permission to use the track for our examiners; if we could have your permission to use the track 'Sing Sing' by Mariana's Trench it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Shaneece Deep & Patricia Sheehan

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:59:08 -0700
Subject: Marianas Trench
From: jonathan@604records.com
To: shaneece_deep@hotmail.com

Message body Hi Shaneece. This is probably OK as long as the video is not used for any commercial means whatsoever. Can you tell me EXACTLY what you will do with it?

Thanks.

Jonathan Simkin

Filming

Today me and shaneece started filming , one of our actors wasnt avalilable to film today so we had to film all that we could with our other actor Shaun who plays the band member. The location of our filming was at our actors Shauns house. The first shot that we filmed was in Shauns room, the shot was a high angle shot filming Shaun lying in his bed with a pillow over his head miming the lyrics 'its no wonder im not sleeping'. Shaneece filmed this while i directed and told Shaun what to do. We filmed the shot 3 times so we can chose the best one during the editing stage. The next shot we filmed was Shaun getting out of bed and noticing the camera hidden in his room , he then walks up to it and places his hand over the camera. During the editing stage we will make this clip look like its CCTV footage so it looks like the camera was place in his room by the girl stalker. The next shot we filmed was a shot filming from outside looking through a window into Shauns living room , this is to give the audience the sense that the stalker girl is looking through the window into his house. You see Shaun sitting at the table about to eat a sandwich when he looks to the camera and sings the line 'its no wonder im not eating' , when he looks to the camera it will be like he is looking and singing to the girl through the window , after he has sang the line he will walk away out of the shot. We realised after filming that we couldnt film any more footage withuot our other actor , we hope to film the rest of our footage by next week.