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1. What am I shooting?
Irvin Ives Lau
A2 Media

2. Equipment's
• Nikon D7000 DSLR
• Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens
• Nikkor 18-200mm F/3.5-F/5.6G lens
• Tripod
• Speakers
• iPhone 6 for high frame rate slow-motion video

3. Nikon D7000 – DSLR
I will be shooting with a Nikon D7000
DSLR for full HD 1080p resolution and for the
manual shooting function.

4. Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens
The Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens is a
prime lens with very low aperture
allowing me to shoot with a shallow
depth of field when focusing onto one
object/person

5. Tripod
The tripod will allow me to
shoot smooth pan shots, keep
the camera steady and stable
when shooting.

6. Speakers
The speakers are very important when I’m
shooting my music video; I will need to play
the song when shooting the lip-sync scene to
allow my actor to synchronise with the song
and know which part of the song he is lip-
syncing.

7. iPhone 6
I will need to use the iPhone 6 to
shoot in 240 FPS for a slow-motion
shot when breaking a glass bottle.

8. Costume
• MUST have jeans
• White and black shirt
• Shades/Sunglasses
• Crucifix necklace

9. Jeans
Jeans is mandatory for my music
video because it is a semi-casual
piece of clothing that matches
with the style of my genre ‘Pop’. I
also chose this because it would
be a great combination with the
black and white shirt. Further
will be discussed.

10. White and Black shirt
On my brief, I’ve explained the strong
contrasts between light and dark that I
will be using in my music video and I
believe that the combination of white
and black shirt will create a very great
synergy.

11. Shades/Sunglasses
I believe that a pair of sunglasses will
make my actor look really ‘badass’
which also suits the black and white
shirts that I have him to wear.

12. Crucifix necklace
The crucifix necklace will tell the
audience that my character believes in
god and god will help him when there’s
a conflict.

13. Locations
• Stonehouse Cliff
• Grass field
• Gloucester City centre
• Brick wall
• Abandoned warehouse in Hong Kong

14. Stonehouse Cliff and Grass field
I chose these locations because the cliff
can emphasize freedom with a high
angle shot and this also contrasts with
the song title ‘Locked Away’.

15. Gloucester City center
I will be doing a time lapse of my actor
with a lot of people walking around
him. This will create an effect of the
actor that seems like he is ‘out of
placed’ and lost. This will show that he
is ‘locked away’ because he doesn’t
belong in that area.

16. Brick Wall
The brick wall is for my actor to lean
against it for emphasizing the ‘simple-
ness of his character. I will be using
this brick wall for lip-syncing most of
the time.

17. Abandoned warehouse
This abandoned warehouse can
establish the loneliness of my character,
it seems like no one is with him and he
has no way out of the place; so it’ll seem
like he is literally ‘Locked Away’.

18. Props
• Beer Bottle
• Spinning shuriken

19. Beer Bottle
• I will be using the iPhone to record
the beer bottle getting smashed in 240
fps slow-motion. This will emphasize
the characters heart: shattered into
little pieces.

20. Spinning Shuriken
I believe that this spinning shuriken
can emphasize a living life, at the end
of my music video, this will stop as if
my character is dead.

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