Storyboards and Shot lists

The Bangles- eternal flame lyrics

Starts singing at 0:08 seconds;

Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?
Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming?
Is this burning an eternal flame?

I believe it's meant to be, darling
I watch when you are sleeping, you belong to me
Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame?

Music Video Conventions

These are split up in to a number of categories:

1) Camera Angles

• A number of close up shots are important in a music video to concentrate on the instruments
• Crane shots so the camera hovers over the stage
• Low angles showing the band to be dominant
• Long shots to view the whole band
• Pans to pan across the stage

2) Editing and Sound

• Footage is edited to match music
• Jump cuts are used frequently
• Split screen shots
• Chosing to include Diagetic sound
• Changes in volume

3) Mise en scene

• Props - Instruments, merchandise
• Costume - matching costume for band or unique one to make video stand out
• Location - Stage, Streets
• Facial expressions - Makes the video look legit
  

Editing Ideas

Primarily the main concern for our editing is to get the lip syncing at perfect timing with the song, by Oli singing the song well will create a better effect however it will be mainly editing which will make the two fit together.

We will have transitions between certain scenes, these transitions will be ones which fit in with the song or make it more interesting yet without making it look out of place like effects such as checkerboard. Good ones which our group is likely to use will be fade in/out and wipe.

We could have titles at the beginning of the song stating the name of the song and/or the artist. This sells the artist and therefore helps us meet the music video conventions

costume

We have decided to base Oli's costume on a stereotypical "boy-band" look. On researching the subject, it became apparent that many of the tackier groups dressed in all white wearing clothes such as white shirts and vests; we decided to incorporate this look into our video by dressing Oli in a white vest and white shirt.
Boybands often wear very loud hairstyles, often floppy or spiky. On researching the subject we decided to have Oli's hair spiky with bleached tips.

video props

we are going to use a guitar and mime to play it. we are going to do this to fit the acoustic effects in the song.

we are going to use a watering can to create the effect of rain to pour over oli during certain shots. which will suit the theme of the song.

we will use a photograph during the song as a symbol to oli's girlfriend who we show him losing.
we will also use a lighter to show oli burning the picture which links to the image eternal flame.

a fan will be used to blow olis shirt around during the wind scene.

Practise Editing task

For our practice editing task we edited a previous groups filming of 'You wanna what'

We had to place the clips in order, putting the chorus in multiple times as this was in the song more than once. We put effects in to practice which ones were good for our film.

We learned to lip sync the video material in perfect sync with the song and to put effects in without changing the place of the video.

Music video task

Our song shall be Eternal Flame by the Bangles.

Our lead singer shall be Oli, he will be dressed in white trousers and a white shirt which will be buttoned very low. We will use the green screen to create the background images of rain, wind and fire. With each scene featuring a different appearance from Oli.

These will include Oli being Wet, windy and passionate.

We shall have matt as the background guitarist playing behind Oli whilst he sings.