Prelim Prep

To prepare for my preliminary, I had the song we chose on repeat all day long to really secure the lyrics into my head.  As I am going to be wrapping Kanye's entire rap I want to make sure I know all the words so that when it comes to filming I am able to perform perfectly.  As this is a bit of a throwback song I haven't listened to it much recently but as I listen to it more, the lyrics seem to come back to me.  Listening to the song over and over is helping me to be able to grasp Kanye's tone when he is rapping which will hopefully enable me to be able to mimic his attitude when filming.

Task 1- Shot Count Analysis- The Lumineers

Track: Ho Hey
Artist: The Lumineers
Record Co: Dualtone Records
Release date: 2012
Time analysed from: 00:00- 01:05

Shot number	Shot type	Shot length	Description	Edit to next shot
1	Sweeping shot	22 secs	Close up of wall with pictures on it leading to a shot of a man standing holding a guitar	Straight cut
2	Mid shot	12 secs	Man holding a guitar	Straight cut
3	Close up	4 secs	Flashing fairy lights	Straight cut
4	Long shot	10 secs	2 males and one female singing and playing the guitar	Flash
5	Close up	3 secs	Man singing	Straight cut
6	Close up	4 secs	Another man singing	Straight cut
7	Close up	2 secs	Woman singing	Straight cut
8	Close up	3 secs	Man singing	Straight cut
9	Close up	2 secs	Feet stamping	Straight cut
10	Close up	1 sec	Man singing	Straight cut
11	Close up	4 secs	Another man singing	Straight cut
12	Extreme close up	2 secs	Lightbulb smashing	Straight cut

This shot analysis suggested to me that depending on the type of music video, the longer or shorter the shots are.  In this video which is a more relaxed song, the shots are longer ranging from 1 second to 22 seconds.  This made me realise I would have to consider the genre of my video before deciding how long the shots should be.  The majority of shots in this music video are close ups, I will consider this when creating my music video.  A common theme I have found when analysing music videos is that straight cuts are used from one shot to another.

Task 1- Shot Count Analysis- Fifth Harmony

Track: Work From Home

Artist: Fifth Harmony

Record Co: Syco Music/Epic Records

Release date: 2016

Time analysed from: 1:15-1:45

Shot number	Shot type	Shot length	Description	Edit to next shot
1	Close up	1 second	Female holding a hammer singing into the camera	Straight cut
2	Long shot	2 seconds	Female sat on a work bench holding a hammer singing into the camera	Straight cut
3	Close up	1 second	Male workman drilling a wall	Straight cut
4	Long shot	3 seconds	Female jumping off of work bench and walking towards male workman	Straight cut
5	Close up	1 second	Female turns man round and he looks at her	Straight cut
6	Close up	1 second	Female pulls man in closer	Straight cut
7	Long shot	2 seconds	Female struts down the corridor and round a corner	Straight cut
8	Close up	1 second	Male looks on at the woman and smiles	Straight cut
9	Long shot	3 seconds	Female looks up and caresses her body	Straight cut
10	Mid shot	3 seconds	Female holds onto the walls beside her and walks backwards	Straight cut
11	Long panning shot	4 seconds	Female dances and sings whilst the camera pans round the female 2	Straight cut
12	Mid shot	4 seconds	Female 2 leans against a wall as she sings to the camera	Straight cut
13	Close up	2 seconds	Male’s hand drawing on map	Straight cut
14	Long shot	4 seconds	Female 2 dances against the wall then walks forward towards camera and over to a table where male 2 is stood	Straight cut
15	Mid shot	2 seconds	Male 2 opens a map	Straight cut

From this I have learnt that the main way shots are cut from one to another is using a straight cut.  This makes the editing look sharp and clean.  This music video was quite raunchy and displayed a range of relationships throughout which is typical of this type of music video.  None of the shots last longer than 4 seconds which suggests to me that when creating my music video there shouldn't be any long clips. A varied amount of shots were present in the 30 seconds that I studied which suggets to me that I need to cram a lot of differeny styled shots into my music video and change them reguarly. 

Preliminary- Location planning

There are various locations throughout the Knock You Down music video.  In order to create the most accurate recreation we wanted to find locations that matched those in the video itself.

For these shots, a white background is needed.  We decided that we are going to use a green screen for this as then we can insert a plain white background and it'll look sharp and clean instead of attempting to find a perfectly white wall.

Final location- the filming studio in the media block at college.

For these shots, Kanye is sat on a window ledge.  We needed to find a window ledge that was firstly low enough to sit on, but also not too high that it could cause a hazard.  We found that the window ledges in and around the media block in college would be suitable for this.

Final location- the media office in the media block at college.

For these shots, Kanye is stood looking out the window.  There is a long shot of him stood on his on looking out the window as well as later in the music video when he is joined by Keri.  We decided that the window ledge we planned to use previously for the sitting down shots would also be suitable to use for these shots too.  

Final location- the media office in the media block at college.

Preliminary- Costume planning

In order to execute the recreation of the music video we have chosen, appropriate costumes need to be worn.  

Kanye West- 

Kanye's outfit includes: 

• Denim jacket
• Black leather gloves
• Gold chains
• Black sunglasses
• Denim jeans
• Orange crew neck tshirt

Keri Hilson-

1st Outfit-

• Baseball jacket
• Dr Dre Beats
• White vest top

2nd Outfit-

• Teal skirt
• White vest
• Blue blazer jacket
• Necklace
• Earrings

Extras-  Male dressed in baggy jeans, white top and black jacket.

Preliminary- Kanye West Ne-Yo Keri Hilson Knock You Down

For our preliminary we had to decide on a music video to analyse shot by shot and then recreate. We were given a range of music videos to choose from and finally my group which included Izzy Humphriss, Tammy Harris and I chose the song 'Knock You Down' by Keri Hilson and Ne-Yo and Kanye West. We chose this song because of the difficulty of it.  As there is a split screen throughput the majority of the video we knew it would challenge our ability when it came to editing and we wanted to test ourselves.  We analysed a full minute of the music video from 3:00 minutes to 4:05.  We didn't think it would be appropriate to analyse the first minute of the video because of the nature of it as we were aware we were going to have to later recreate the video.  Izzy analysed the first 20 seconds from 3:00-3:20, Tammy analysed the shots between the timings of 3:20-3:40 and I analysed the remaining 20 or so seconds from 3:40-4:05.  We decided this was the most time effective way to analyse the clip we had instead of all doing the whole minute.  This worked well.  Our analysis involved the type of shot that was used in the frame, the lyrics in the shot and who was singing at this time.  This was done to aid us in the construction of our recreation so that everything was cut down into more manageable pieces of information.   

Below is the video we are recreating and the shot by shot analysis carried out by Tammy, Izzy and I.