Unit 16 Pitching Music Video

P1

2nd Music Video Analysis

P2


Song Chosen : Enemy

Band: BionicPIG

Link : Enemy - BionicPIG (Aaron)

Job Role : I am the Director in our group, my role is to turn our groups idea into a reality and keep actors and actresses in line when filming.

Ideas Discussed so far :

Initial Draft Idea;

Band walks on and gets ready to play music. Wakes up from sleep with eyes opening. Rubs eyes then looks in the mirror. in bath room. Opens mirror cupboard and takes medication pot out. No meds in it. Checks time. Runs out of the door with pants pulling up and toast in his mouth. Bikes off down the road. Gets to work. Goes to the door. The door is open but he cant get through. someone helps him through. Goes to work station. Computer says hello in words. 'didn't take meds'. He goes to the photo copier. Photocopies something once. Loads of sheets come flying out. Boss gestures to come here. Tells him to go. Leaves building goes to his bike.  

P3

Treatment for Idea 1 (The one we pitched)

Script for Idea 1

Bionic Pig - Enemy Video

Mise-en-scene	Duration of action
The band walks onto the studio set and starts the beginning of the song.	0.00-0.06
Actor wakes up from sleep and opens eyes wakes up in field.	007-0.16
Actor rubs his eyes; camera goes close up; then pans out again, revealing himself looking in a mirror.	0.17-0.25
He opens the cupboard behind the mirror; revealing an empty pot with ANTIPSYCHOTIC written on it. He shakes it off, looks at his watch and rushes out the door.	0.26-0.36
Shots of the band	0.37-0.42
We see him rushing out the door; franticly straightening his work clothes and bag with a piece of toast in mouth.	0.43-0.48
He then gets on his bike and speeds down the road.	0.49-0.52
We see him arriving at work and locking his bike up, before going towards the entrance and experiencing his first hallucination.	0.53-1.01
He goes towards the automatic door, however it doesn’t open (from his POV), we then cut to a third person view, and see people coming in and out of the doors. He attempts to force them open, but to no avail. Someone then helps him through	1.02-1.21
Shots of the band	1.22-1.27
He goes to his work area and turns the computer on; he sees text on the monitor as if it were talking to him. He freaks out, falling off of his chair before looking back and seeing a normal desktop.	1.28-1.42
We then see him stepping out of his work area to photocopy something, however he prints out loads of copies; rather than just one. He tries his best to control it but his boss sees, and beckons his to come to his office.	1.43-1.55
We see the boss gesturing to the actor that he needs to leave, before opening the door and showing him the way out.	1.56-2.02
Shots of the band	2.03-2.08
He leaves the building looking depressed, grabbing his bike and begins pushing it down the street.	2.09-2.16
We see him getting home and dropping his bike, and stomping towards the front door.	2.17-2.25
He enters his home and makes his way to the kitchen, grabbing a bottle he takes big swigs and moves towards the back door.	2.26-2.40
He enters his back garden with the drink, standing motionless before smashing it on the ground.	2.41-2.46
Shots of the band.	2.47-2.52
We see him smashing other objects (boxes, cans, etc), using slow mo + close ups.	2.53-3.09
We cut to him sitting on the ground with his face in his hands.	3.10-3.14
He steps back inside and we see him walk through the kitchen at a distance, with a letter saying ‘I’m Leaving’ in our close perspective.	3.15-3.25
We cut to a shot of him running a bath, putting both taps on high power.	3.26-3.31
Shots of the band	3.32-3.37
We cut to a shot of him opening a bottle of pills, taking them out of shot, then seeing the pot again, however it is empty.	3.38-3.48
We then cut to a birds eye shot of him in the bath, slowing sinking in as he OD’s.	3.49-4.00

Treatment for Idea 2 (not pitched)

P4

Initial Pitch

Pitch Video Link

Screenshots

Feedback

P5

Improved Treatment (After Feedback)

Dates & Timescales

Initial Release Date:

We aim to release our music video on the 21st of October 2016 

Production Plan

Production Plan	Week 1 19-25 Sep	Week 2 26-2 Sep/Oct	Week 3 2-9 Oct	Week 4 10-16 Oct	Week 5 17-23 Oct	Week 6 24-30 Oct	Week 7 31-6 Oct/ Nov	Week 8 7-13 Nov
Initial ideas	This will involve my group working together to come up with several ideas then develop one. Equipment we will use is a computer, pen and paper.
Script	The script will involve one person developing the final idea into stage directions dialog and sound effects. Equipment needed will be a computer with internet to access adobe story a script writing software.
First Treatment	Our first treatment will be a group task of us first making the slides titled with form, content and style to name a few along with some pre production material. Equipment needed is a computer with Google drive so everyone in my group can edit the treatment to add extra information.
Improved Treatment		Once we have pitched our first idea we will then take our feedback given and improve our treatment by looking at the feedback given too us. Equipment we will need is a computer to edit our treatment and the hard copies of our feedback.
Storyboard		For the storyboard we will work as a group to complete this task. The reason for this is because it has to be a detailed storyboard. Therefor we will get the best drawer in our group to do the drawings then someone write the stage directions and another the sound and also the shot types. Equipment needed will be a storyboard template sheet, pensile and colours.
Recce Sheets		With the Reece sheets we located spots where we are going to film and fill in the additional information as well as taking pictures of the location. Equipment needed will be a camera and tripod as we need to take pictures of the location.
Risk Assessments		The risk assessments can be a shared group work as that means we can get more done in a limited amount of time. Completing the risk assessments wont be hard as if we think of all risks at the locations we have scouted then we know the risks. Equipment we will use is a computer as we can mage or get a template for Risk assessments.
Model Release Forms		This involves getting the actors to sign a form so we can use them in our edit. Equiptment we will need is pen and a contract for the models/ actors to be able to sign the form.
Legal & Ethical issues			This will be where we write about any issues with our music video like any violence or swearing. Equipment we will need is a computer to write about the legal and ethical issues
Certification from Artist		This is a individual task where one member in our group will contact the artist who’s song we made a music video about and ask for permission from them. Equipment we will need is a computer or phone to contact the artist.
Test shoot			This will involve my whole group going out and filming our most ambitious scenes to see if they work. Equipment we will need is a camera, tripod and a light.
Location Release Forms Permission				This will involve us getting the location release forms signed off to be able to film at the location. Equipment we will need is the location release form and a pen for the signature.
Permission Form Song Owner				This is where we receive an email from the artist responding to us saying that we are ok to use his/ hers song.
Book Equipment				This will involve us booking out the equipment needed for filming Equipment camera, tripod and lights.
Filming					This will undergo us filming all our scenes with our actors and crew in all locations capturing loads of shots for our music video. Equipment needed will be a camera, tripod and lights as well as the locations needed to film.
Editing						This involves our whole group individually finishing off our editing by putting the clips together in premier. The equipment we will use is a computer with adobe premier.
Final Production								This is the date we will finish our production.

Legal & Ethical Issues

LEGAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
Drug Use	We want to have drug use in our music video; the drugs used will just be antidepressants and antipsychotics. Since these aren’t illegal drugs they shouldn’t be a problem will the law. This does inflict on ethical issues, which will be discussed below.
Copyright	Using the music in our video will inflict copyright, to solve this we found the contact details of the original artist which was the email address, we emailed them asking for permission and a few days later they replied allowing us to use it.

ETHICAL

Issue	Solved or justified?
Drug Use	The use of drugs like antidepressants will inflict on ethical issues because of the seriousness of the topic and that can offend people if we don’t take it serious enough so we have to be careful. Also overdosing on drugs is a serious issue because it can inflict suicide.
Mental Illness	The protagonist of our music video has schizophrenia and if we don’t take it serious enough people can get offended or think that this is what all schizophrenic people are like. So we need to be careful and possibly even research why schizophrenic people are like. We also would like to amplify the seriousness of mental illness; so raising awareness is a good thing.
Suicide	The climax of our music video is the protagonist committing suicide by means of overdosing on antidepressants and since this a very real topic we must take it very seriously because if we don’t people will be offended by it and that is the last thing we want our music video to do. We will also be able to raise awareness of suicide by showing how serious of an issue it is.