Main Task - 'Wasting Time' - Storyboards - Shoot 2 (Narrative)

Main Task - Storyboards - Shoot 1 (Performance)

Main Task - Props List

Main Task - Shot Lists

Main Task - Artist Correspondance

Luckily, the artist themselves were easy to access. Since I found the band through a friend of a friend, contacting them was simple. Most importantly, the band themselves seems very keen to be apart of our media piece.  In fact, they were grateful to have somebody produce a music video for free for them. I think what made this easier was the fact that the band are still small, they were more likely and certainly more keen to participate in the video itself, something which we found particulalry enticing.  

Luckily, the whole band were willing to be involved and in turn were fairly easy to create our own ideas without to many restrictions from the band themselves. This is ideal since we did not to be too restricted in our thinking and image we had in mind for the music and lyrics. 

What remained the problem, and most concerning problem, was arranging a date to film. As well as this, finding a place to film was difficult since we needed to make sure that the location would not be a problem for the band. 

In the end after many problems with the whole bands availability, as well as my production group. We set a date for me to film and for the whole band to attend. We decided to film in their small practise room, which ideally would be decorated with a nice backdrop and fairy lights, also filming in a nearby wood. All that was left to risk was the weather...

Research & Planning - Lighting and Colour

As our chosen track is quite upbeat we thought that high key lighting would help to reflect upon the song and therefore represent visually what the audio is portraying.

For the colours, we wished to use a lot of greens and yellows in order to display the new and happy relationship of the couple within the narrative. Usually, yellow has connotations of being happy and summer, just what king of feeling we wished to create in our music video.

Research & Planning - Location

Shoot 1- Performance

Due to the song having an upbeat tempo, it seemed only fitting that we should film somewhere in the sun. The only problem with this is that we rely on the weather. To cause the least logistical problems with the band, we thought it would be easiest to film near them. Initially we had the great opportunity to film in a warehouse belonging to the lead singer's family. However, this became problematic since there was work that would be occuring on our planned weekend and so would be quite distruptive. Hence, we decided to film in a nearby forest and in their practise studio in a bandmember's house. The only problem lay in the fact that I would have to film on my own due to work commitment, but this was mostly resolved by grabbing another pair of hands to help myself out with the shoot itself. The band's performance studio initially looked quite bare and so we bought nice looking backdrops and fairy-lights in order to make the space look more fitting for a music video.

Most importantly, we wanted to make sure that the setting was light and therefore would fit with the genre of Littlewing's music. Luckily, the woods provided a lovely setting for the light-hearted nature of the song, as well as consistantly providing the green/yellow colouring which we wanted to display throughout the music video. It was also key for us that we had good weather for this day. Without good weather, the entire music video would appear almost unconnected to the song. For example, if we were to have dull, rainy weather, it may be better suited to a song that had a saddened, deep meaning. In order for the meaning of the music video to be clear, ideally we needed sunny weather - connoting happiness. 

Shoot 2 - Narrative

In order to make sure that the music video flows nicely we decided to film on national trust land or 'woodlands walk' as to appear as though the couple are on a romantic sunday walk. The colours therefore would hopefully match to the performance shoot and therefore not appear jarring.

Research & Planning - Casting

Since we wish to make a narrative and performance based music video, we needed to find extra cast. Firstly, the main performance is the band themselves and in this way, they could mostly manage their own image. For the narrative we wish to create however, we needed ideally to have a girl who was similar looking to the lead singer. This is because we wished to create a narrative whereby the audience believed that the girl is in the relationship with a boy was infact the lead singer, however, it is revealed at the end that, in fact, the girl is not her. This had to be changed since we were unable to logitically fit in such a big narrative into the music video which is supposed to be mostly performance based. 

Also, we were unable to meet up with the lead singer to shoot some extra shots in order to make the narrative clear. In this end we ended up using myself, since it came to our attention that I look the most like her. As for the boy in the relationship, we decided to choose a friend who would feel comfortable acting in such a situation. It was important that we had a young cast since the band themselves are quite young and as such have a young target audience. The song itself also proves to be about a young first relationship. 

Research & Planning - Costume Ideas

Since 'Littlewing' are a small indie/alternative band, we wished to keep their look very simple as many indie bands create an image which is patricularly 'relatable' to a yound audience. This kind of attitude is perhaps displayed through Wolf Alice's presentation.

With bands of the same genre, clothing remains very casual, we wanted to continue with this:

Main Task - Ideas for Shoot

Main Ideas:

Draft/initial idea storyboards

• Performance based music video
• Performance and narrative based music video

Main Task - Lyrics Analysis - 'Wasting Time'

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Main Task - Chosen Song - Littlewing 'Wasting Time'

Main Task - Mood Board

Main Task - Chosen Artist - 'Littlewing'

For our music video we chose a band who were easily accessible:

'Littlewing'
3-Piece Alt-rock band from Bucks
'Barricades' EP
Annie Needham - Guitar / Vox
Joe Humphrey - Drums
Nick Morgan - Bass / BV's
(( Lewys Blore - Alto Sax / keys/ BV's ))

In this way, I wanted to ensure that the band would be willing to be in the music video - since we were keen to do a mostly performance based video - and would be happy to use their music for our piece. The reason why why chose this track was perhaps becauase it is quite light hearted, and since we knew were going to be completing production in summer, weather conditions would (hopefully) be nice and thus, reflective of the light-hearted song.

Main Task - Initial Ideas