Costume ideas

Here I have generated ideas on pinterest to how i would like the main protagonist to dress for the filming. I have thought of the ice of maybe using a cape to help show the movement and speed of the running. I could use a red one so that it signifies danger, I was thinking that if i was to do this i would have everything in the background black and white then i could make the red cape stand out by cutting it out allowing the colour to come through. This idea was taken from the film schindler's list. Another idea I've had is if they dress in dark sort of rough clothes big puffy jacket to show the atmosphere as being cold and isolated.

Risk Assessment

When filming my music video I had to carry out a risk assessment so that I knew what the risks for the people and the risk for the equipment were. The table below shows the risks and how much of a risk they would have been.

Student Music Videos

 After I had researched students short films i then went on to looking at student music videos. I found this gave me an insight into what I had to do.


I firstly looked at a student music video for Faded- Alen Walker, I thought that it had a really good narrative and thought that the concept of the past and present footage was really good. It was about a boy that had lost his girlfriend. At the beginning you are a bit unsure on whats happening I initially thought that they just split up. I think that the way that they have staged it really makes you want to carry on watching and watch til the end. This is very important especially with the way that they have shown it because you don't know the real reason of whats happened until you get to the end so they had to make sure it was interesting enough to watch till the end.

I then went on to looking at a Sia- Breathe Me music video, I thought that you could clearly see some similarities to some of the other Sia videos in terms of using a dancer in an empty room. I think that it works really well and I really like how they have edited on the beat. Its a bit harder to understand this storyline I think. I like the idea of the dancing happening then other videos of the narrative and storyline. 

Animatic

This is the animatic that I have made from the photos of my storyboard. I think that this has given me a clearer view of how the music video will look. I think this is a valuable part of the planning and is very worth it because it means that you can sort of see what it will look like before you go out and film it and it allows you to change things before you go film it.