Our finished music video

Here is our finished preliminary task

Our Hypnotic Storyboard

An important part of the pre- production process was storyboarding, as it helped us to decide on how many shots we would need at each location and will help us massively during editing as we will know where each clip needs to go.

Costume for Hypnotic

Make-up and costume are crucial to our video and as soon as we decided on the song I instantly had loads of ideas come into my head. Here are some of them.

There are two costumes being spread over the four scenes:
Costume One

Here is a collage I made on Fotor.com of the kind of clothes we want her to wear, I really like the bohemian, wild style of it as I believe it captures the essence of the song and conforms to the norms of the indie genre.










Costume Two

For the second scene which is being shot in the train station we want her to look strong and powerful. Alternative singer Halsey, particularly, has influenced me when creating this look.

Choosing locations

For our preliminary video we want to shoot at multiple locations as we don't want it to look too amateur or boring.
We have chosen 4 different locations, in the hope that each will capture a different personality trait of the protagonist of the narrative.

Our first location is a field at Walton Dam, it has long grass with wild flowers (basically a field) which we think will express her wild and carefree nature. I can't find a picture of the exact field on the internet, and I haven't been down there yet to take a photo but this image I found is of Derbyshire which is where we are so is quite similar.

Our second location is outside Sheffield train station, by the water feature. At night time it lights up, looking very atmospheric.  However, although this seems like a brilliant idea we may face some difficulties regarding the lighting of the shots; we do want the footage to be quite dark but we need to be able to see it clearly.  This may be hard to achieve naturally. We are hoping that this location will help the viewers to visualise the protagonist's powerful, controlling side (highlighted through the lyric 'talking like a head strong momma').

Our third location is very simple (in theory), it's at sixth form, in front of the large black curtain that we use for the school shows. We had considered using the media department's green screen but we wanted to use lighting and are not sure how to do this using the screen. Since we are both A level drama students we know how to use the lighting deck, and change the coloured... bits of see-through plastic that go in front of each spotlight to tint the lights (I'm not doing technical theatre so don't judge my lack of knowledge on terminology).  We hope that through this we can create atmospheric footage from this. Furthermore, the shots filmed in this location will be very important as we wish to incorporate a theme of voyeurism, and 'break the fourth wall' by having Lois who is playing the protagonist directly face the camera, which we hope will have a great affect on the audience.  We are also going to film shots of my hands on Lois' face and neck because the song is largely about control. Hands will be a large theme in our 1 minute video.  We're not too sure why but we thought it would look cool in all honesty.  

Our final location is Scarsdale Ruin because we think it looks grand and since it is a protected property, it is probably a location that would be used in a high brow music video, as it is a place people go to look at for its beautiful architecture.