PLANNING: OCTOBER CHECK LIST

Here are the titles for your next set of posts. Tackle your PLANNING in this order:

1. PLANNING:  TARGET AUDIENCE RESEARCH You could do a mind map, a questionnaire, a poster like we did last year. Discuss all three products not just your video.
2. PLANNING:   LYRICS ANALYSIS Post the lyrics for your song on your blog plus your analysis of mood, representation of the artist, initial ideas for treatment.(Type out the lyrics.use a different font colour next to each line of the lyrics to show initial planning for your visuals)
3. PLANNING: TREATMENT (see guidance)
4. PLANNING: HOW MY BAND DEVELOPED ITS STAR BRAND(remember to draw on what you learned from Richard Dyer)
5. PLANNING: EDITING TECHNIQUES Find examples of similar editing styles or transitions that you plan to use. Video + text? 
6. PLANNING: MOOD BOARD - create a mood board that reflects your overall approach.
7. PLANNING:AMATEUR v. PROFESSIONAL Analyse the way your student video has been inspired by a professional music video. Explain what you are planning.  (Later, you will use side-by-side still shots for this, showing the professional one next to yours).
8. PLANNING: PERMISSION TO USE TRACK Contact the original artist. Show that you have attempted to seek permission from the artist to use their song (e.g. via Facebook, Twitter, letter, email) 
9. PLANNING: MISE-EN-SCENE (pictures of places, props, costumes; you could use Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr or a word document)
10. PLANNING: SHOT LIST
11. PLANNING: CALL SHEETS (one for every shoot; each member of the team will do one)

In addition, you'll have 4-6 extra posts:
PLANNING: PROPS LIST
PLANNING: DECISIONS (this may have a more specific title)
PLANNING: TEST SHOT (mobile phone perhaps)
PLANNING: LOCATION RECCE SHOTS
PLANNING: SOUNDTRACK AND MUSIC

 

HOW TO WRITE A TREATMENT

A treatment is a description in clear English in the present tense setting out what your product / film / video has in it, starting at the beginning in the case of a video which has a linear narrative.

Look at http://www.georgeking-assoc.com/education/vid101c_summer07/how-to-treatment.html

or http://www.creando.ca/about_us/treatment.php

Other sites include http://www.mvwire.com/2002/06/13/music-video-treatment-basics/

Here is a sample video treatment: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Manual/Treatments#Music_Video_Treatment

CONSTRUCTION: HOW TO SET OUT A SHOT LIST

Today we studied a professional shot list and will use it as a model for our own productions. Each group should make their own and start to complete it so that you know who is in each shot, how the camera moves and what sound / voice-over accompanies each shot.

Shot list by Howard Myers