3. 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
4. Pre-visualisation/Concept 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]
5. Pre-Visualisation/Concept Boards
As you can see,
a few of these
images have
chroma keying.
This bad style is
what I want to
do in the final
product, the rest
are just bad
dancing in the
middle of the
screen. I would
like to replicate
a few of these
dance moves.
6. Structural breakdown
• 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
7. Structural breakdown
The editing plan for my video is to have the scene change with every other line in
the verse, and then when the chorus kicks in, it’ll speed up and change with every
line. The shots won’t have any specific order, but once I make the first verse, the
second will follow that style. There’s a breakdown towards the end and each beat
will have a different scene in that, and then when the singing resumes the dancing
will go back to normal.
8. Storyboarding
• Your storyboard should bring your idea to life
• Provide an idea of the sequencing of you video
• Provides a basis for production
• Suggested online storyboard creators are:
• https://www.storyboardthat.com
• http://www.pixton.com [very complicated]
• http://www.storyjumper.com [allows you to insert your own images]
• Alternatively, hand draw or photograph your storyboard and scan or
copy to insert it onto your slides
• There are lots of tips collected together on Blackboard!
10. Shot List
• Your shot list should contain the sequential breakdown of what you
need to shoot for your video – it is both a creative tool for planning
and practical tool for filming
• 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.
11. Shot list
• Person wakes up, phone alarm, 08:00AM,
song starts
• Open curtains, person dancing outside, in the
cold, outside
• Go downstairs to make coffee, look out
window, same person dancing outside, but
with chicken in hands
• Get in car, look in mirror, shocked expression
OH NO! It’s that person, in the back, but the
shot is in the mirror, but the person is
dancing in the mirror in the car on the
camera in the mirror
• Get out car, panicked, running towards
college, person dancing behind, but not
following
• Enter college, look behind, no dancing man,
look back towards staircase, dancing man
• Run towards classroom, dancing man in
background in each shot
• Enter classroom as breakdown starts,
extreme close ups cutting between
protagonist
• Slowly stops dancing as song ends
Opening pan across onto house
Hard cut to alarm on phone, screeching
Song starts as protagonist gets out of bed
Rub eyes
Open curtains, protagonist back to camera
Cut to protagonist view of front garden,
there’s some one there by the gate,
dancing
Cut to kettle steaming
Pouring coffee
Look outside
The man is dancing again, but this time,
he’s dancing with a chicken in his hand
Protagonist puts coffee down
Runs to car
Enters car
Cut to protagonist looking into mirror,
shocked
Cut to mirror, dancing guy is in the back of
the car
Cut to outside, car driving off with
protagonist screaming
Cut to college, car pulling up
Protagonist jumps out of car and runs into college
Person dancing in the background
Running around various places in college with
dancing man in background (About 5 shots)
Fall into classroom door
Cut to floor, protagonist getting up
Bam! The dancing man is right there
Breakdown of song, back and forth cut of
protagonist and dancing man. Protagonist looks
confused, dancing man’s head is moving
Cut to dancing man dancing in classroom as the
song starts to end, then he just walks away at the
very end
13. Production Group Info
• Include names, contact info, and defined roles at difference stages of
production, using a table is suggested
• Benjamin Wincup, director, actor [benjamin-
wincup@student.yorkcollege.ac.uk]
Allan Godin, actor [allan-godin@student.yorkcollege.ac.uk]
14. Location information
• York College, Art Corridor Floor 1 & 2 & Outside the back of College
• York College, Sim Balk Lane, York, YO23 2BB
• I have the appropriate permissions to film inside of college as I’m a
student here
• A major issue with the location of college is that it is a working
environment so we have to be quiet and there will be people moving
around. There will also be the case of chairs and other obstacles in
the way which could be a major risk of health and safety.
2nd Floor
1st Floor
15. Kit requirements
I’ll need a camera, tripod, SD card and battery for the camera. The
battery speaks for itself, but the camera I need to record shots with
them looking semi-professional. If I were to film on my phone, I feel
like the video would be low quality and end up like this. The tripod
helps to keep the camera steady and the SD card means that I can
transfer the video from the camera to the computer. I’ll also need a
computer with video editing software so I can actually make my video.
