Costume, prop and lighting preparation

We went to the drama department and borrowed a number of suitable items of clothing, to dress people who appear in our video.

We will use this lamppost in our shot with the policeman, filming inside the drama studio, with high level lighting using the available spot light and a secondary light in the lamppost to create a feeling of reality.

We have borrowed a huge black curtain so that we can black out daylight as most of our video consists of filming night shots. This can also be used as a back drop for when we film the band performing. This curtain can also be used to affect with filming narrative sections of the video with backlighting through the curtain.

For lighting Chris can get hold of a number of high brightness lights on stands to achieve whatever effects we want.

Location one

This is the layout of my kitchen and the possible ways in which we could use it.

Band's positioning

I thought about where the band members should be standing when they are playing, conventionally it is set out with the lead singer at the front in the middle, the bassist to the right and the guitarist to the left with the drummer at the back and slightly to the left so they can still be seen. I think we should stick to these conventions as the original bands within our genre used this layout, however i will discuss this with the rest of our group to see if they agree

Costume for the band

The band need to be dressed in punk clothing in the style of bands such as The Clash, the Sex Pistols and The Jam

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This is the style of punk clothing we will ask the band to wear, with black or white skinny jeans,with rips or zips, tshirts or vests with logos, brands or paint on them. I also know that most of the band members already own the style of shoe as you can see in the picture of The Clash, therefore we will ask them to wear these. However i also think that we should not stick entirely to the conventions and add an element of the 'mod' fashion by asking one or two of them to wear a skinny tie with a jacket as shown by The Jam in the picture below;

Cast needed.

We thought about all the people we need in order to make our video. We hope to get most of these people from our sixth form, however we may need to ask outside friends if these people are unavailable. They are as follows:

• Goon-Male, he will need to look 'chavy' with diamond earrings, tracksuit bottoms and a tshirt
• Girl-To be with the goon, she will need to dress like a punk with a ripped band tshirt, tights, a jacket and boots. She will look like the girl all the punk guys would want to be with.
• Girls to be written on-Between 2 to 6 girls who wouldn't mind being in little clothes, hopefully with different hair and figures.
• Policeman-Adult, male, we hope to ask Mr Fletcher, a drama teacher however if he declines we will ask a friend who looks quite old and is quite tall.
• Neighbour-Male or female, they will stand at a door if we decide to use this idea.
• Older brother-Male, will need to look older than the girl with the goon, other than that there are no preferences.
• People at the party-Between 10 and 20 friends, mixture of people dressed like punks and chavs, however not as striking as the main characters.
  

Ideas for video and necessary props

Looking at the lyrics we decided that it would be better to do mostly performing with certain lines using other people and acting out what the lyrics say. So far we have decided on the following, and for this I have thought about what props we will need to accomplish this:

• "But you won't catch me sippin' out your cup of Baileys" For this line we plan to have the lead singer holding a glass or a bottle of Baileys and dropping it so that it smashes, therefore we will need an empty bottle or a glass which we can smash or at least drop onto a pillow.

• "So its BANG BANG BANG" We had the idea of using a bang gun for this shot, therefore Chris bought one off of eBay, however as there are three 'BANG's we will need to decide on what we will do for them.
  

• "Or the crooked 5-0" We hope to find an adult male to stand wearing a policeman's outfit, and had the idea of him taking the hat off to reveal a phrase or word to do with the lyric written on his head. We could find this outfit in the drama department which I will look for tomorrow.
  

• "He knocked my teeth out" I had the idea of taking still photos of one of the band members and blacking out one tooth at a time, then making it into film. However we would not black out all the teeth, just three or four at random.
  

• "Gimme gimme just one little look" For this we had the idea of writing on girls as most of our audience said they wanted to see naked ladies, however the girls will be wearing clothes though the writing will be on their backs, stomaches and maybe chests. Therefore we will need a pen which rub off easily, eg. a drywipe pen.
  

Disclaimer

Our chosen song contains a number of explicit lyrics due to the nature of the song, therefore it must picture a parental advisory sticker as part of the album cover.