Animatic of my music video

Filming Schedule

Recce of possible locations

I've recently conducted a recce of potential locations for my video and I found that:

• Camden Lock is a nice location to film as there are loads of young trendy people just hanging around, people who fir my target audience.

• Camden Lock is beautiful at night in person but doesn't come across so well on camera; it was too dark to film.

• Camden High street looked beautiful at night and due to it being a well lit street, the camera was able to pick up everything.

• Primrose Hill has a beautiful view of London, which could feature in my video, a bit of iconography stating that my artist is a London girl born and bread.

• Primrose Hills' sunset is really beautiful and very popular and would be a perfect location to film my time lapse and for my montage of my artists daily routine.

• Harrow arts centre - I originally planned to use their facilities for the bathroom and dance rehearsal scene as their toilets kind of remind me of the toilets from Harry Potter they're rather big and its quite dark and gloomy in there so it could look really good for the scene where she's looking at her self in the mirror. I'm also contemplating whether I should also use their dance studio to shoot the scene where my artist turns up late for rehearsals or just use the dance studio in my school.

Music Video Storyboard

Below is the first draft of my storyboard for my music video.

The pictures illustrate:

• a woman putting on lipstick
• a woman lying down on a chaise long whilst a therapist is talking to her
• a woman performing on stage
•  a door with AA on it (AA stands for Alcoholics Anonymous)
• a woman speaking up in an AA meeting
• a woman looking at herself in a toilet mirror
• a woman drinking out of a coffee cup
• shots of Camden high street
• a girl in toilets
• a girl in the streets of Camden
• a close up of a girl looking tired

Music Video Pitch

                               

Location - planning

Below are some shots of Camden. I have chosen Camden to be my primary location because the artist that I'm basing my new artist on is Amy Whinehouse. Camden is an urban, cool, young place which embraces the weird, quirky and hipster type people and these people are my target audience therefore I think that it is only fitting to film in this particular area. Moreover, the atmosphere from this area is always so live and chaotic which fits the themes of the song, a girl walking the streets, not really knowing where she's going. Camden is full of people like that, trying to find themselves.

Initial plans for my music video

Song choice:  Carmen by Lana Del Rey

Possible Artist names:
Liberty Haze
Skylar Ray/Gray

Possible Locations:

Camden Roundhouse

Camden lock- at night

Stage Classroom- Party scene

Bedroom/ Dressing room

Off licence

Stage

Camden high street

Primrose hill

Toilets

Alleyway

Jazz Cafe/ Coffee shop

Aim of video:
I want this video to have an auto-biographical feel as I want my audience to connect with my artist. Hence why I've chosen to film my video as if it was a documentary.