Scouting For Girls Music Video: Research and Planning

After completing our preliminary task of the Busted remake of their classic video 'That's What I Go To School For.' I decided to further improve my skills by completing a remake of the new Scouting For Girls song 'Famous', from their album Everybody Wants To Be On TV which was their second studio album and released on the 12th July 2010. After I completed basic background research on the band I found that they were an Indie Pop band and that many of their videos were simple storylines yet also effective. This appealed to their target audience of hedonists, post modernists and post materalists.



Below is the real video for the song 'Famous';

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0mQ0MvyP-c

The first thing that I had to complete was the casting. After much deliberation I decided to be the director and camerawoman whilst Jess and Holly would be the main singers and the assorted extras would be Lucy, Leah and John. The next step was to complete a storyboard of the scenes that I wished to be included in the video remake. This was important part of the process as it enabled me to see what sort of shots, cast, costumes etc. were needed at each part of the process whilst also allowing me to keep track of the song and it's timing so that I did not get lost throughout the filming.

An example of four of our storyboards is below;

The next step in the process was to make a shot list, similarly like the one detailed below with the Busted video. These detailed which shots (type, location, props, characters, costumes etc.) that I would be filming each day, allowing me to keep track of which shots needed to be filmed so that when it came to edit the video there were no continuity edits or missing footage like there was on the Busted video. This was a critical part of the process as it allowed me to keep a simple yet effective schedule to the filming, which was very helpful as I only had limited time and the number of people involved would have made it difficult to organise them all together without the shot list.

An example of my shot list is shown below;

With this part of the project I found that completing the storyboard was the most effective and useful. I believe that this was because I only needed one shooting script as I would only be filming during the one day whilst also because of some of the complex camera edits that would come later, I had to pay a closer attention to the storyboard and the timings to the music.

This I believe would be more like what I would be facing when I complete the music video for my A2 Media Coursework next year.