The document provides guidance for a student on their music video assignment, including templates and suggestions for: - Generating ideas and researching other music videos - Choosing a song and outlining their concept - Assessing the viability of their production through investigating locations, equipment, and personnel needs - Planning the visuals through storyboarding and developing a shot list broken down by the song structure - Organizational planning like defining team roles, conducting risk assessments of locations, and creating a production schedule

1. MUSIC
VIDEO
ASSIGNME
NT 2
YOUR NAME HERE

2. GUIDANC
E
This template PowerPoint presentation
includes all the relevant elements you
need to cover in your Music Video
Assignment
It is suggested you save this PP in a
different name and share it with your
group so you always have a copy –
some sections require you to delete
the information on the slide and
replace with your own work
Add more pages to each section
where necessary [you should be doing
this!]
Add visuals as you see necessary
This document will be added to as you
progress through the pre-production
phase.
Delete this slide when complete

3. TASK 1
Idea
Generation and
Research

4. RESEARCH & IDEA
GENERATION
Select a song/track that you like [or don’t like!]
Generate three ideas for music videos
employing styles, techniques and conventions
that we have looked at in previous sessions.
Explore how you could interpret the song
differently using different methods
You can add any extra info you think is
relevant, images, mind maps, etc
For quick mind maps you could use bubbl.us
to generate these

5. RESEARCH
Watch a selection of videos to get your ideas started,
make note of a minimum of 5 – add extra slides,
screenshot the video and in bullet point note down info
in terms of camera, editing, art design, performance, etc
and how this might link to your production
Hint!
You’ve already done this in
your case study, so you can
summarise that here where
relevant

6. TAUNT
Band always
looks like
they’re just
having a
great time
Blank
background so
all focus is on
the people
featured
Fixed camera,
short shots
Lots of enthusiasm in
performance

7. MODEL BUSES
Variety of
locations
More abnormal
props
Consistent Green
screen images

8. POTENTIAL SONGS
List the songs you might want to do
1. Taunt
2. One Day

9. POTENTIAL TECHNIQUES
Look at camera, editing and special effects (digital and
physical) techniques you could employ. Look at tutorials
online and on YouTube.
Short fast shots, walking around town, lip-syncing into
camera. Could do multiple locations or just one

10. CONVENTIONS YOU PLAN TO
USE
What are the conventions of your musical genre? How
could you use them?
Performance, lip-sync, acting. I could easily emulate
something like the enthusiastic exciting videos for Taunt
or One Day

11. MIND MAP OF IDEAS
[SUMMARY OF IDEAS]
Include the mind map you started last week
Taunt
One, blank
location
Lipsync every lyric
Enthusiastically do
something
new for each shot
Secondary
actor?

12. SUMMARY
5 opportunities of your ideas; what would it allow you to
do? Expand your skills? Refine something you already
know how to do?
1. Work on editing the shots together so that the lip-
sync works together.
2. Refine performance skills
3. Lets me have a lot of fun with the project and increase
my desire to actually work on it
4. Learn more about the production process for music
videos

13. SUMMARY
5 restrictions to your ideas. Think about locations, cast
and personnel. Are any elements of your idea really
difficult? Do you have enough time?

14. FINAL IDEA –
ARTIST/TITLE/INFO
Taunt/Lovejoy
Brief biographical background
Wilbur Soot, Joe Goldsmith
Genre info

15. FINAL IDEA – TRACK
SUMMARY
Summary/analysis of track [consider meaning, content,
duration, pace and style of the song]

16. FINAL IDEA – YOUR IDEA
Your creative concept/video synopsis [describe your
interpretation, use of imagery or narrative, genre
conventions, etc]

17. TASK 2
Pre-production
Assessment

18. GUIDANC
E:
PRE-
PRODUCT
ION
ASSESSM
ENT
You need to assess the viability of your production and
investigate what is required to enable you to make your
music video
Much of this task is hypothetical, which means you will
need to investigate standard costings for such a
production and apply these to your planned production
considering which equipment you would need and
resources, etc
Resources to support this are in the Pre-production
assessment folder on Blackboard
Delete the questions on each slide and insert your
responses

19. TITLE OF
PRODUCTION/PRODUC
TION OUTLINE
Summary of intended production
Detail here what you are going to
make and the intended outcome
Detailed breakdown of the music
track chosen and your interpretation
of it [remember the questions in the
workbook, e.g.
pace/mood/tone/structure]
Specific outline your intended
technical/equipment requirements
Include any details that you think
[you could use material from your
pitch]

20. LOCATIONS
You need to identify locations and plan a recce.
What are the limitations and risks, eg distance, access,
cost, weather? How will you manage this?
Three main shooting locations will be around college, in
town and at home. All are free to access, and while town
is somewhat weather dependent, some rain may work
well in some of the parts.

21. EQUIPMENT
What do you need? E.g. equipment, resources? Mostly
from college, but who do you need to speak to get this
kit? What is available? When?
Look at equipment hire places, etc
Potentially renting a camera from college upon filming
begins, which I can do using the google renting form
provided by the college.

22. FACILITIES
Where will you edit your video? Do you need any other
specialist facilities…?
In class using premiere pro, or at home while I’m at my
dad’s and have access to my home computer.

23. PERSONNEL
CREW: What is you team? Who is in it? What are each
team members strengths/weaknesses? When are they
available?
CAST: Do you need any external performers? When are
they available? Cost implications? Will you have to feed
them? Transport them?
Other personnel? Is anyone else helping you?
I’ve decided to just do the project myself, as to save time
and allow me to record in college

24. PROPS/COSTUME/ETC
I will be recording in just my regular casual clothes I’d
show up to college in, and at this point in planning do
not have any props in mind that might be necessary

25. TASK 3.1
Visual Planning

26. PRE-PRODUCTION:
VISUAL PLANNING
This section is concerned with the visual planning of your
music video
You should use this section to develop the sequencing or your
video, establish the relationship between the visuals and the
track itself and create a structure for you to follow when
filming
It is important that you ‘pre-visualise’ the video before you
make it; it will make filming and production a more
streamlined process
The following tasks are part of your visual planning
 Pre-visualisation and concept boards
 Storyboarding
 Shot list

27. PRE-
VISUALISATION/CONC
EPT BOARDS
Tool for exploring the direction and visuals
Provides inspiration and information for the “look & feel”
Presents key moments in your video
A means to sketch/plan ideas
Information on colour/lighting
Defining the “mise-en-scene”
Include as much here as you like, but keep it relevant to the
production, the following slides have been left blank for you to
approach in your own way, add more as you need to
Extension suggestion: edit a short sequence of clips that have
inspired or influenced your video [similar to this:
http://io9.com/5941145/this-directors-video-pitch-for-hunger-
games-might-be-better-than-the-real-movie]

28. STRUCTU
RAL
BREAKDO
WN
Breakdown your track into it basic sections [e.g.
intro, verse, chorus, verse, etc] and apply broad
visual ideas to each section
You can use this as the master template for your
production, then add more shots to each section
when you develop your full visual plan
You should create a slide showing all the sections
of the song, then add a slide for each section with
timings, lyrics, what happens and details on
specific shots
You could storyboard and shot list each section
as you go, to break up the process.

30. SHOT
LIST
Your shot list should contain the
sequential breakdown of what you
need to shoot for your video
It should work in partnership with
your storyboard
It will be your working document
when you film
It should contain the shot number,
scene number, shot description,
framing and action you will see
It should also have information on
performers in the scene and other
props, etc
Shot list template is on Blackboard
in the pre-production folder.

31. SHOT LIST

32. TASK 3.2
Organisational
Planning

33. PRODUCTION GROUP INFO
Include names, contact info, and defined roles at
difference stages of production, using a table is
suggested

34. LOCATION
INFORMAT
ION
Information and images of your
location[s] for filming
You should have address details,
clearance/premissions for filming,
recce photos and floorplans
[including camera, equipment and
cast/crew layouts]
Where possible, have a plan B
fallback location option
Assess each location for any issues
and suggest solutions

35. LOCATIONS
College, can be allocated time during lessons to set aside
for filming. Sim Balk Ln, Bishopthorpe, York YO23 2BB.

36. RISK
ASSESSM
ENT
Risk Assess each separate filming
location using the table in the
camera H&S PP on Bb as a staring
point
Completing a generic filming
assessment would be a start, then
you can add specialist/site specific
risks as you progress your
production
Remember, a Risk Assessment is an
ongoing document, you should
evaluate if anything changes in
production and when you put
control measures in place
You should add the table to each
call sheet for each location

37. RISK ASSESSMENT
Phone could die, staircases can be dangerous if I do
recording on the stairs, phone could fall off the stairs
and become unusable, could catch COVID during
recording

38. CONTINGENCY
PLANNING
Things go wrong
Your contingency plan is there to give you a
backup or to minimise the effect on
production
You should consider the following areas:
Technical, Location, Personnel and
Organisational areas [about 5 potential issues
for each]
Use the form in pre-production folder on
Blackboard

39. CONTINGENCY PLAN
If I don’t get enough footage I can easily find stock
videos online to fill the gaps
If for some reason I can’t use my phone on a certain day
then I can take out a college camera as a temporary
replacement

40. PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Your schedule should budget a total of 10 hours for
production, that is for the filming and editing of your
project.
You should plan when you’re filming and how you intend
to use the in class days on your timetable/class schedule

41. SCHEDULE
Week Activity
1 Recording footage
2 Recording footage
3 Finish recording if necessary, edit in the last few days

42. CLEARANCE AND
PERMISSIONS
Any place you film and anyone you use in the
filming of your video must have a completed form
Blank forms are available for you to complete and
insert here, you can also create your own