Planning tasks

Planning tasks

1. Choice of song and initial ideas
2. Equipment list
3. Props list
4. Crew list
5. Shooting schedule
6. Locations list
7. Representation in your music video
8. Planning of the mise en scene in your music video
9. Storyboards and lyrics
10. Moodboards
11. Costume and make-up tests
12. Health and safety / risk assessment discussions / forms
13. Auditions
14. Release forms for actors / extras
15. Rehearsals / lip sync practice – if necessary

All planning tasks must be documented – see the shared drive, if you require other specific paperwork please ask.

Research tasks

Deadline for research tasks

1. Copyright permission letter
2. Analysis of at least 3 music videos on your blog.  They should be from a similar genre of music to the one you intend on working in (upload the videos to your blog)
3. Description / identification of your target audience
4. Audience questionnaires & analysis of results
5. Focus group regarding initial ideas
6. Andrew Goodwin and Laura Mulvey music video theories written in your own words
7. Details of the three main categories of music videos (performance, narrative and concept based)
8. Intertextuality in music videos
9. Research into the music video industry
10. Conventions of music videos
11. Digipack and digipack magazine adverts