Shot List

Below is a shot list of all of the shots that I have included in my final video, and why I used them.

- The first two clips of the video will consist of data that I have collected to give some background information on the  care system. I did this because I wanted to ensure that my audience had an idea what my video was about, and had some background information to start my film off.

- The next shot in my video will be a medium close up of my actor, introducing himself and talking about his life.I included this because I wanted to introduce the little boy, in a personal and direct way, before the audience were shown his story.

- The following two scenes will show my actor in a close up shot miming the lyrics to the song. I wanted to do this because I want to draw the audience in very quickly and early on in the song. Which I think this direct mode of address will do.

- The next scene will be of my actor walking, in a high angle shot focusing on his feet. I am planning to add a slow motion effect to this scene, as I feel it will intensify the mood and idea.

- This shot will be a high angle shot of my actor looking directly into the camera, I want to do this as I feel that it will make the video intense, and will show the innocence and age of the little boy acting in my video.

- Another shot of the little boys feet, adding to the effect already spoken about above.

- Medium close up of the little boy standing looking directly at the camera, to add to direct mode of address feeling already spoken about.

- Another clip of little boy speaking about his life, high angle shot.

- Long shot of shadow of the little boy spinning, I want to do this as I feel it will add uniqueness and originality into my video.

- Establishing shot of little boy walking in front of trees, I want to do this as I want the audience to feel the isolation my character my actor is trying to create.

- Medium close up, following the little boy side on. I want to show different angles of the little boy to diversify my shots.

- Extreme close up of the little boy closing his eyes, adding a 'replicate' effect. Want to keep intensity going.

- Cloning shot, the little boy walking across the screen, and spinning in the corner. Want to add effects that show isolation and intensity. I also want to create the idea that his 'mind' is in many different places and show a confusion in his thoughts.

-Long shot of the little boy running away from the camera- wanted to show different angles, and show isolation.

-Another shot of the little boy talking about his, have discussed above.

-Little boy popping out from behind tree- long shot. Want to diversify shots and show 'childlike' movements.

- Little boy running out of doorway- long shot.

- Medium close up- little boy slamming door.

- Extreme close up of actors face in bedroom.

-Shot of actor talking again.

- Medium close up of actor walking.

- Hand held shot of actor spinning.

- Long shot of actors back- with actor walking.

- Another shot of actor talking about his life.

- Hand held shot of camera moving around, and then focusing on actor walking away.

- Next two shots of actor miming the lyrics to the song.

-Actor of actor talking.

- Hand held camera running up the stairs.

- Shot of actor talking.

- Shot of actor spinning in shadow.

- Actor spinning around tree looking directly into the camera.

- High angle shot repeated.

- Video of actor talking- story to change to positive.

- Shot of two hands coming together.

- High angle shot of child at the park smiling looking into the camera.

- Actor throwing leaves and laughing- long shot.

- Long shot of woman and child walking through doorway together.

- Actor talking about life again.

- Child running towards camera and laughing- long shot.

- Child sitting on swing- medium close up looking into the camera.

- Child running towards camera and laughing- medium close up.

- Actor talking into camera about life.

- Little boy laughing into camera- long shot.

- Little boy sitting on the grass looking into camera- high angle

- Actor laying on the floor in leaves whilst camera circles- medium close up.

- Medium close up of actor laughing into the camera.

Moby Natural Blues, Postit Notes Video.

The Foo Fighters- The Pretender Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-EU-Xwm7RY&ob=av2n

Music Video Analysis. 'The Foo Fighters-The Pretender'

I decided to analyse the music video 'The Foo Fighters-The Pretender' . I chose to use this video, as I think it relates to the video I hope to create, it presents a strong message, and is about a serious subject.

The Editing of my animatic storyboard.

When I had completed my animatic storyboard, and was happy with all the scenes,cuts, and timings, I had to film it, to enable me to upload it to Premiere Pro, and then to cut it to the times of my music video. I found the videoing of my storyboard, reasonably easy, however the tripod proved to be slightly more complicated then I had imagined. It was quite a sturdy, yet a tricky piece of equipment, and it did take me a while to get used to using it. However after a while I got the hang of it. I then had to upload what I had video onto Premiere Pro, I learnt how to capture it through Premiere Pro, and then to add it to my timeline along with my music track. Once I had done this I was able to edit together, all of the timings I had planned on my storyboard. I found using Premier Pro a lot easier this time than last time, as I had already equipped some skills, so didn't feel so daunted. Again though it was a time consuming task, and does become draining after a while. 

When I was editing my video, to the track, I got more practice in using, the cutting tool, as well as the stretch tool, which I used to stretch clips longer to tie them in with the music. I also began to use the Video Effects toolbar, in which I made some of my clips black and white which was something I wanted to include in my final video. 

When  I had finished editing my video clips, I exported my video. 

Still Images of Animatic Storyboard.

These are still images of my Animatic Storyboard, when creating this, initially I felt the task to be very big, and because I wasn't exactly sure of everything I had proposed for my music video, I felt under pressure to decide and sort out what I was doing. However I feel that this task was good for me, and allowed to picture my ideas to more of an extent, and to also get straight in my head what I wanted my music video to look like.

This is an image of my timeline, that I Printed from Premiere Pro to aid me when completing my post notes, I had imported my music track into the timeline on Premiere Pro, and then stretched it out, so that I was able to write exactly what I wanted to do at each second in the music, track. It continues to the back page (below).This helped me a lot, and also added to the feeling that I had planned every little bit of my music video.