Planning: Story Boarding.

We have finished our story board, which we will later scan in, however we need to gain insight into how studio videos are shot in order to become more interesting for the audience. It is important for close ups to be used, for the audience to gain a relationship with the artist, however there are ways for the shot to become more interesting. Be it with a different angle, a different type of lighting etc.

Here we will embed and link any studio based videos that we could use to gain inspiration for our studio shots.




Despite this video being shot entirely in the studio, it is anything but boring.
Ways this is interesting for the audience:

• Lighting: The lighting used throughout creates striking contrast with the footage, as it is edited in post production to appear monochrome. At certain points in the music the light flashes to reveal a different image or actor, we could use the same effect by flashing light at a certain moment to show another image of the artist.
• Time Laps: Some of the shots here have been speeded up during fast dance sequences or movements. Some other moments, that we as an audience can only gather that would happen extremely quickly, the footage is set into a slow motion state in post production.
• Falling into Shot: Some items, and people, disappear or reappear in the shot, such as light bulbs falling into shot, dancers dancing off and back into shot etc. During the final moments of the song, to create a dramatic effect we could use light sparks (placed in falling into shot in post production) or, to link with the song, cherries falling into shot in order to make this more interesting.

So far, we have planned to only be shooting for two days - one day in the studio, the other on location. We will then spend most time editing and planning and going through the photo-shoot for the promotion. On the studio shoot, we will look at our story board and, if we are unsure of any of the shots at that given moment, we can change them by simply changing to angle or lighting. However, in order to fit our artists imagery, using flashes of light and moments of shadow would give an eye catching effect on the audience.