Filming Script

 FILMING SCRIPT

LAUREN TREVARROW & FRANCESCA RADLEY

JEALOUS

SCENE 1:

Intro-

Close up of roses, camera pans around them.

Close up of artist walking into cinema (black and white).

Camera moves away as he sits alone.

Eye line match of his seeing a couple watching the film.

SCENE 2:

Verse 1-

            Cuts to rain on a window.

            Couple play in the rain, women is pregnant.

            Pan to artist stood alone in black and white (black and white).

           

            Lip sync.

SCENE 3:

Chorus-

            Couple playing in a bedroom. Mirrors used to film abstract view points.

            Pans to artist alone in black and white watching (black and white).

            Candles showing the word ‘Jealous’ shown between shots.

SCENE 4:

Verse 2-

            Cut back to artist watching the couple cuddle in the cinema.

           

            The couple laugh and enjoy themselves.

            Cuts to artist sat alone on a park bench at night time (black and white).

           

            Lip sync (black and white).

SCENE 5:

Chorus-

Show the couple preparing for a baby, making up a bedroom.

            Pan to artist watching through the doorway (black and white).

            Candles used between shots again.

SCENE 6:

Bridge-

Artist lip sync in a street (black and white).

            Camera moves around him.

            Cuts to roses dying.

SCENE 7:

Chorus-

            The baby arrives and the couple are spending time with the child.

            Artist is watching again (black and white).

            Candles are shown between cuts.

SCENE 8:

Outro-

            Graveyard, the child is young now, she leaves the couple and the camera follows her.

            She places a rose down on a gravestone and the camera zooms out.

            Shows her stood alongside the artist, she is unaware he is there.

Storyboard

My Audience

Target Audience For the R&B and Soul:


The style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B is also known as neo soul music. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R&B counterpart, with incorporated elements ranging from jazz, funk, and hip hop to pop, fusion, and African music. It has been noted by music writers for its traditional R&B influences, conscious-driven lyrics, and strong female presence.

The more popular neo soul artists in recent years have included John Legend and Anthony Hamilton. This is the category would place my artist in and these is the type of audience I would also describe him to connect with. 

The target audience can be classed as the strivers, they are the low resources group of those who are motivated by achievements. they have values very similar to achiever but have fewer incomes social and psychological resources. style is extremely important to them as they strive to emulate people they admire. 

My target audience is a young audience from the age of 14 to about the age of 25. From any country that speaks English as that is the language of the song. The target audience for my music video will mainly be female although males will also be able to relate to the narrative and plot.

Initial Ideas on Production

Narrative Theory

EXAMPLES:
‘That Thing You Do’ – Tom Hanks (1998):

• establishing shot, conventional syntax
• eye line match and continuity editing – special and temporal coherence
• montage sequence linked with music shows passage of time
• graphic match creates verisimilitude
• symbol of record creates realism
• condensed time and space

The Structure of The Classic Narrative System:

EXAMPLES:

Bob Dylan – Beyond here lies nothin’

• In media res (in the middle of things, no start no end.)
• Spatial and temporal coherence
• Rhythmic editing
• Equilibrium is disrupted and the quest leads to a resolution
• Hybrid – cross over off a music video and short film
• No performance all narrative (plot)

Radiohead –

• Street spirit

•                 No surprises

These are examples of how abstract recordings are edited in professional software to create a unique video that can express particular aspects and themes of the songs. The techniques are basic but the way the are captured on camera makes them seem more interesting than they are in reality, this helps to keep the audiences focus during the video. 

Influences

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

Ghost

• This music video is the same genre as the video I am going to create, slow R&B. It is a narrative based video with less performance and communicates a clear story based upon the lyrics to the audience.

• The lighting is a key aspect in the production for creating ambience. 

• The costumes are basic with a subtle spot colour of red to create a connotation for danger was well as passion for the main character.

• The mise en scene is generic and relatable to the audience, for example a kitchen or a street.

• The editing is mainly cross cutting or cut ins, it is a conventional format.

• Special effects are used to create the illusion that the main character is a ghost coming back to love his 'darling' which is a similar idea to the narrative within my own music video, this is an effect I could look at using or trying out in my own work.

Creativity

Creativity - The ability to bring something new into existence.

Combination of existing ideas that collectively form a new concept.

Beatles 1957 – strawberry fields forever

• Field location with an abstract arrangement of a piano, creating a new concept.
• Uses standard tricks to create illusion which is a connotation for the drugs that influenced their work.
• Close up shots create emphasis.

Bob Dylan 1960’s – subterranean homesick blues

creates an abstract image by using paper with the lyrics on and dropping them as the song plays. The location changes subtly as the camera moves in to a close up of the lyrics and moves out to establish the new location of the shot. This is a useful technique and effectively enhances the audiences imagination, keeping their attention.
 

Queen 19970’s – bohemian rhapsody

• Uses up lit lighting - this makes the effect of the faces to appear ghostly matching the theme of the song. The video is indie and uses editing techniques to create abstract lighting effects.

Coldplay – the scientists

• Use of slow motion and lip sync.
• Backwards lip sync.
• filmed backwards and edited on the computer to match the lip sync.
• one artist, narrative and performance based.

Outkast – hey yal

• Uses one artist on a green screen and uses editing software to merge the recordings of the one man plying multiple instruments into one frame to create the illusion of a band performing.
  
  

White stripes - Button to button

MTV award winning music videos - Ed Sheehan and Pharrel won 'Male Music Video Award 2014' with 'Sing'. This song is R&B, the genre I am creating a music video for, it is creative in it's use of puppetry as the artist pose to an actor. The puppet represents Ed's lifestyle and brand.

My main influence is 'Give me Love' by Ed Sheehan -

This video is slow R&B, the same genre as 'Jealous', it's narrative is a mix of supernatural and realism, to create a new concept. The editing is engaging, it uses jump cuts to change scene. Many skills are demonstrated in the production, the overall video uses mise en scene to create the mood of the song and show the audience the many connotations.