Preliminary exercise tasks: Music Video

 Preliminary exercise tasks: Music Video

Initial Tasks: planning

Before creating anything in Media you need to plan out exactly what you are going to do. You need to complete the following planning tasks on your blog before you can film anything:

Create a blogpost called 'Coursework preliminary exercise' and produce the following.

1) Write a 100 word statement of intent explaining what you are going to make for your preliminary exercise.

Statement of intent: 

I plan to make a 30 second advert for someone who goes from being a naughty troubled child that bullied little kids and was constantly getting in trouble and her mum constantly receiving bad phone calls from the school bad emails etc then it goes forward a few years to her being older and being the complete opposite completing all her homework helping kids when they need it and  switch to her mum receiving positive phone calls and emails this can affect the community by her becoming someone who helps everyone and not effecting the society in a bad way but instead helping.

100 words explaining what you plan to make.

Example statement of intent [147 words]: 

I plan to make a 30 second advert about a student struggling in school due to tiredness and behaviour issues who is helped by their rehydrating health drink. The beginning of the advert will have a montage editing sequence of different issues that the student is having with a soundtrack that fits a negative overall mood. My character will be in school uniform that is deliberately messed up to help communicate the struggles the student is experiencing.

The middle of the advert will involve the character discovering the product with close-up shots of the product (pack shot) and also the character drinking the product. The advert will then end with the character alert, in perfect uniform and answering a question in class and being successful. The final seconds will have a logo and slogan of the health drink with a voiceover saying the product name and slogan. [147 words]

2) Write a script for your preliminary exercise on your blog. This needs to include stage directions AND dialogue. To see how a TV drama script is presented, and to look at professional examples, check out the BBC Writers' Room and click on Script Library. These will not be music video scripts but the layout will be the same.

Alina- not completing any work bullying her little brother pushing him around

Roman-child crying from being bullied on the floor upset

Alina hanging around doing nonsense sitting around on her phone not doing anything

Mum- looking down at her phone upset at all the negative phone calls and emails she's receiving from all her teachers.

Alina; answering back to her mum and shouting at hr when she's getting told off.

Mum looking all stressed

-flashforward-

Zeewa- helping a child that is hurt and crying, helps her brother complete his homework, doing all her homework to the best of her abilities

Mum; receiving a positive phone call and being so happy with her child and proud of the change.

3) Casting: Who will be in your preliminary exercise music video?
Both my cousins who are playing sisters.

Zeewa older version

Alina younger version

Roman younger brother getting pushed around.

4) Plan your locations: Where you will film your preliminary exercise? (You can film off-site if you wish to do this for homework - this is what we would strongly recommend). Important note: You CANNOT take any students out of any other lessons OR disturb any other lessons in the school. If you wish to film in-school then you will need to film with Mr Ray supervising or after school with a Media teacher present. 

The video will be filmed at a house and outside at a park.

5) Write your shot list: every shot you plan to film. This needs to be far MORE shots than you will actually use in the final edited version - plan extra angles, close-ups, long shots and more. You can find an example shot list here. This is for a narrative film but the layout will be the same. 
First shot will be her in her room with book pilling over each other and close ups of her watching tik tok on her phone, closeup of her snacks she has with her on the bed.

Second shot is the mum showing her all the emails she receiving and telling her to complete the homework but she shouts at her mum and tells her to leave.

Then her brother asks for some help on his homework and she says no and bullies him and he's left crying.

She then sneaks out the house and is up to no good.

then it flashes forward to the complete opposite of positive phone calls, emails, helping her brother, helping her mum around the house and growing up to being a good person.

Extension task - Storyboard: Draw a 5-frame storyboard mapping out your key shots. Storyboard sheets are available in DF07.