Coursework: Pre-Production planning
1) TikTok video treatments
You may already have THREE detailed TikTok video treatments from your summer project and/or preliminary exercise - definitely use or develop those if it works with your project.
However, you may need to update your treatment or even change it completely now you have finished your preliminary exercise.
Remember the brief lists the following possibilities:
- interviews/AMAs with band members
- content created by band members
- performances, live shows or personal appearances
- band members taking on a TikTok challenge
- the band interacting with fans
- fan-made content
- merchandise or promotion of the band’s music
- any other content or combination of content you think would be appealing to the audience and promote the band effectively.
TikTok 1:
This video will be an interview of the band speaking about their music/ song and how they came up with the lyrics. The video will contain clips of the music video they made for the song for more of a visual element. The band's dynamic will be shown in this tiktok video such as their style, genre and bond.
TikTok 2:
This video will be a behind the scenes of the band making one of their songs (a different song) in a studio. It will also contain varied shots of the band just playing and hanging out. The video will end with a clip from their music video of that song.
TikTok 3:
This video will be a interview but not about the band's music but about the band themself. The band will be answering commonly asked questions as well as playing a few games. This video is supposed to represent the band as individuals as well as a group, simultaneously being entertaining and creating a personal identity and relationship with their audience, One of their songs (a different one) will be playing in the back as a non-diegetic sound.
2) Mise-en-scene planning
Plan everything that will appear in front of the camera in your TikToks.
Remember CLAMPS: Costume, Lighting, Actors (cast, placement, movement, expression), Make-up, Props, Setting.
Costume
What will your artist wear? What other costumes will be required? What is the costume supposed to communicate to the audience? How does this link to genre or constructing representations?
Tiktok 2:
- Clothes: comfortable clothes, street wear/ Y2K clothing
- Communicate?: relatability, genre and style of the songs
- Representations: Band's fashion sense, fashion trends within band member's generation
- Clothes: comfortable clothes that members feel comfortable in
- Communicate?: Their fashion sense and mood for the video
- Representations: Generation trends and habits.
- Same vibe but different outfits as the first tiktok, for the same reasons.
- For the clips of the music video it will be y2k clothing as it will be the video I made for my pre-liminary task
Lighting
How will you light the different scenes in your videos? Day or night? Interior or exterior? If outside, can you use streetlights, shadows, reflected sunlight or other creative techniques to achieve the lighting style you want? If inside, experiment with creative lighting techniques using windows, blinds, artificial lights, phone flashes, ring lights and more. You may also want to use our professional lighting set-up with a white or greenscreen background depending on how you plan to conduct the interviews - speak to Mr Ray if you want to arrange this for an after-school filming session.
Tiktok 1:
- Interior lights- filler lights
- Ring lights
- Ring lights
- Filler lights
- Sun lights
- Ring lights
- Filler lights
Actors/performers
The first thing you need to plan is your cast - who will be in your production? The key casting is obviously your artist but you may have other characters too. Try and cast people who are reasonably similar to the character or performer they are playing (both in age and personality). Next, plan their placement and movement in key scenes - how will the audience get to know them? How do you plan to position the audience to connect with your artist?
Tiktok 1:
- Me, Raagni, Janice, Olivia
- Me, Raagni, Janice, Olivia
- Extra person (male)
- Me, Raagni, Janice, Olivia
- Background voice.
Make-up
Plan any make-up you require - this can be very important for music artists.
- Make up is optional for all tiktoks
Props
What props will you require? Remember, you can't use anything that might resemble a weapon in a public or school location (this is VERY important).
Tiktok 1:
- Phone
- Phone tripod
- Guitar
- Mic
- Drums
- Drums
- Guitar
- Phone
- Phone tripod
- Mic
- Mini microphones
- Bowl of questions
- Mini board games/ trivia games
Setting
This should already be largely planned using your video treatments. However, now is the time to specify exact locations. For external locations, try and take pictures of settings or use Google Maps and Google Earth. Spending quality time planning your locations can make a huge difference to the professionalism of your production. AQA also seem to prefer external rather than school-based locations - particularly for a brief like this.
If you have a bit of budget to work with you may want to look at booking a rehearsal studio to get more of a band or performance feel to your music video. Pirate studios are an example of a rehearsal and recording studio with several London locations.
Tiktok 1:
- Plain room
- Clips from my LOSER music video
- Music studio
- Central London
- Ikea
- Westfield
- (to be decided)
- Plain white room
3) Shot list
The final aspect of your pre-production planning is to write a comprehensive shot list for every single possible shot you plan to film for your videos. For one minute for each video, with lots of jump cuts, etc. that is going to be a LOT of shots - quite possibly 30-40 per minute.
Remember, a shot list is a full list of all the shots in your video with information for each of them (shot type, action/movement etc.) Creative shot choices aside, it’s easy to forget that a shot list is a strategic document. Creating a shot list is essentially like creating a shooting gameplan for the day.
Remember, a shot list is a full list of all the shots in your video with information for each of them (shot type, action/movement etc.) Creative shot choices aside, it’s easy to forget that a shot list is a strategic document. Creating a shot list is essentially like creating a shooting gameplan for the day.
Your shot lists need to contain EVERY shot you plan to film for your every video AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. Cutaways are important as TikTok videos generally have fast-paced editing so you'll need a LOT of shots.
We advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word or Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example from a short film here. It makes sense to write your shot list by scene or location rather than a huge list of every shot in the promo video in chronological order.
We advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word or Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example from a short film here. It makes sense to write your shot list by scene or location rather than a huge list of every shot in the promo video in chronological order.
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