Monday 18 October 2010

Exploring different effective camera shots and angles in music video treatment

MUSIC TREATMENT MEDIA VIDEO

Blank black screen
FADES TO:
LOCATION 1: Walking through bushes
ESTABLISHING/TILT SHOT FROM the sky to the ground [low-angle]
TEXT DURING the tilt [CONCEPT] then [LET ME FLOW] will appear
SHARP TILT UP [eye-level]
INSTRUMENTAL/MUSIC BEGINS
TRACK artist walking down dead road surrounded by graffiti (rapping) [eye level]
DISSOLVE TO:
LOCATION 2: Walking through estate
STATIC SHOT OF artist leaning one foot on the wall, rapping (continuous mid-shot) [high-angle]
SLOW ZOOM ON the artist (mid-shot to close-up) [eye-level]
CUT TO:
LOCATION 1: Walkway through bushes
TRACKING SHOT OF artist walking down walkway through bushes whilst rapping (continuous mid-shot) [eye-level]
DISSOLVE TO:
LOCATION 3: Graffiti wall 2
PAN OF surroundings of graffiti wall 2 and 3 focusing on artist emotions and expressions [eye-level]
TRACKING OF artist walking along the dead end road surrounded by graffiti whilst rapping [eye-level and straight angle shot]
CUT TO:
CHORUS:
JUMP CUT OF different locations when he says ‘Let Me Flow’
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 2 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 1 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 3 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 3 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 1 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 2 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
CUT TO:
LOCATION 4: Graffiti wall 2
SHOT OF artist walking along the dead end road with trombone shot [eye-level]
SLOW TRACK BACK artist in long shot to close up [eye-level]
CUT TO:
LOCATION 1: Walkway through bushes
TRACKING SHOT OF artist walking down walkway through estate whilst rapping (continuous mid-shot) [eye-level]
DISSOLVE TO:
LOCATION 3: Graffiti wall 1
STATIC SHOT OF artist leaning one foot on the wall, rapping (continuous mid-shot) [high-angle]
DISSOLVE TO:
LOCATION 3: Graffiti wall 2 and 3
PAN OF artist rapping
TRACKING OF artist walking along the dead end road whilst rapping
CUT TO:
CHORUS:
JUMP CUT OF different locations when he says ‘Let Me Flow’
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 2 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 1 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 3 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 3 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 1 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 2 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
CUT TO:
LOCATION 6: DEAD END ROAD SURROUNDED BY GRAFFITI AND ESTATES
SIDEWAYS TRACKING SHOT OF artist walking through estates whilst rapping (continuous mid-shot) [eye-level]
TROMBONE SHOT OF: artist walking towards the camera with a fierce facial expression [eye-level]
Tracking forward of artist walking pass the estate.
CUT TO LOCATION 3: GRAFFITI WALL with artist showing his emotions through effective facial expressions (serious facial expressions) [eye-level]
FADE OUT TO: BLANK SCREEN WHEN ARTIST SAYS: “WAIT LET ME SAY IT AGAIN I DO THIS SO IT’S OVER WHEN I SAY SO END!!!”
Bring the image back from a quick cut with a mid close-up shot when he says: “Am only joking bring the chorus in. Let me flow”
Chorus:
JUMP CUT of different locations when he says “let me flow”
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 6 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 3 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 2 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 1 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 4 ‘Let Me Flow’ x3 [eye-level]
JUMP CUT TO LOCATION 6 ‘Let Me Flow’ x2 [eye-level]
BEAT STILL PLAYING AS CAMERA TRACKS BACK/ZOOMS OUT AS ARTIST WALKS AWAY
WHEN BEAT COMES TO AN END CASTING IN TEXT COMES UP:
DIRECTED BY... DANIEL ACHEAMPONG
EDITED BY... ABDULLAH HEZZAT
CAMERAWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY... JORDAN PATTERSON
PRODUCTION BY... MENA RAMSIS
THEN A SLOW FADE OUT INTO A BLACK SCREEN.







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