The document discusses plans for a music video for Justin Bieber's song "Purpose." It will include both a contemporary dance performance to convey emotion as well as narrative snippets depicting meaningful life events that give the subject of the song purpose. The performance will take place in an empty studio with minimal lighting and camera work focused on the dancer's movements. The narrative portions will show scenes from a bedroom, kitchen, and park using props and winter clothing to set the scenes and natural lighting.

1. Music Video
Pre-Production

2. Key Words & Definitions
O Genre- this is a specific style of something in art,
music or literature.
O Sub Genre- this a division of a genre in literature,
music, film and more.
O Hybrid- this is a combination of 2 genres, for example:
Pop and Rap, Pop and Rock.

3. Examples of genre, sub-
genre, hybrid
Justin Bieber is a generic pop
artist.
Adele is a singer/songwriter
of pop.
Iggy is an artist that
combines 2 genres –
pop and rap.
Sub-genre
Genre
Hybrid

4. My Chosen Song
O The genre I have chosen is pop-dance.
O The song I am going to chose is Purpose – Justin
Bieber. This song is off his new album also called
purpose.
LINK TO VIDEO

5. What video am I going to
make?
O The song Purpose is about love. It is about the person he ‘loves’ giving
him a reason for something he does. It is captivating to the audience with
the emotion he uses in his video.
O The music video I am going to make it a narrative and a performance
video. The performance side of my video will be a dancer doing
contemporary dance showing emotion and actions throughout. The
narrative side of my video will be snippets of live events that have
happened that make the person he is singing about who is giving him a
‘purpose’ so special to him. The life events that could happen is maybe
being bullied, parents separating, family members or friends passing
away. These are an example of the life events where she could be being
supportive to him. The other life events I could show are happy events,
romantic events. These events could be I want my audience to feel the
emotion from the video.

6. Examples of Props, Costume, Location,
Settings, Lighting, Camera Angles and
Shot Types
O The props used by Little Mix in their song ‘Black Magic’ are glasses, rucksacks, a
book, candles, chairs, paper and a shoulder back.
O The costumes that Little Mix wear in ‘Black Magic’ are at the beginning of the song
the song they are dressed ‘nerdy’. Jade and Perrie are wearing glasses and
rucksacks. They all are wearing shirts tucked into their pants wearing trainers and
boots. Further on in the song their outfits then turn into more stylish outfits, wearing
patterned skirts and shorts which have similar tops to go with them. Their hair and
make up is done nicely and they are wearing heeled shoes.
O The location of the song ‘Black Magic’ is at a high school and at a house.
O The settings of the song is in the school library, school halls, school theatre and a
bedroom.
O The lighting in ‘Black Magic’ is natural high key lighting and artificial lighting.
O The camera angles in the music video are tracking, tilts up and down and zooming in
and out.
O The shot types in the music video are close up, long shorts, establishing shots,
medium shots.

7. My Current/
Own Examples
O The props for the performance part of my music video there will be no props as I want the room
empty. Most of my video will be the performance. On the snippets in my music video one of the
snippets will be in a bedroom so the props I will need is a bed, a bedside cabinet, tissues and bed
accessories. In another snippet of my music video I want the props to be winter accessories to
keep my actors warm for this part of the snippet.
O The costume for the dance performance will be bare footed and either full white or full black outfit.
The outfit will be difference according to what part the snippet it is. For some of them I will want
comfy clothes to be worn with no shows. For others I want wintery outfits for snippets outside
when my actors are acting in my snippets.
O The setting will be in a plain empty studio for the performance and for the snippets a bedroom,
kitchen and a park.
O The lighting will be natural lighting, high key lighting for the snippets and the lighting will be
artificial for the performance.
O The camera angles will be tracking, tilting, pan for the snippets and for the performance it will be
tracking, pan and I will maybe add some slow motion giving an effect.
O The shot types I will use are close up, medium shot, long shot and a establishing shot.