The problem

At first I had a problem where I only had two monologues within my video. Because of this the ratio of performance and narrative wasn't good. Through feedback I found that the audience were confused and thought that initially a girl had taken drugs and then got cancer. This is when I decided to put in the homeless scene and the transgender scene.

First Draft: Music Video

This is a first version of the music video created by me for the song This Woman's Work by Kate Bush. However, there are a few different things within this video that I believe can be changed to make the video more effective.

Filming

Today I filmed for my drug scene, homeless scene and cancer scene in the location of my own home and garden.

Planning: drug monologue and homeless monologue costumes

I have used two ideas from this music video for my own.


Within the drug scene my artist will be wearing a jumper and have her nails painted red which connotes to danger while the person handing her the drugs like the video is wearing a black glove.


The homeless scene will have close ups in order to convey emotion like in Ed sheerans video and my actor will be wearing a hoodie with the hood up and have a blanket to cover them.

Music Video Planning: Narrative

I have created a Flipagram and coverted it into a YouTube video in order to show the story boards I created in order to plan what type of shot I would use and how many seconds they would take up in my monologues.

Planning filming monologues

Cancer scene - house

Drug scene - garden

Homeless scene - garden

Transgender scene - house 

Photoshoot for Digipak and Website

Evidence of me filming my performance

I used this stool so that I could get a close up eye level with my artist. 

Image to show the set up of my camera and tripod infront of my blank back drop using the still as a prop.

Filming my artist. 

Date for filming performance

Music Video Performance Planning: Location, Make up and clothing

I decided that for my performance I was going to use a blank wall drop for my location through out. Just like in the Jessie ware video where she only used one location. I opted for a blank back drop so that my artist was the main focus of every shot.

Here is evidence that for the performance side of my music video I had pre planned.

Location - infront of a blank wall

Hair - down and curly

Make up - normal night out natural looking

Clothes - long floaty black dress 

 

Costume and Prop Plan

Mind Map created by sianhorrigan with GoConqr