Blog 11 - Storyboard

Our idea for our video was based around challenging the racial and sexual stereotypes through rap videos by using the opposite genders and race to a 'normal' rap videos. We thought of this as there are too many dominating male videos where the male gaze you used and the women are just objects while the men and seen as the rulers of them and seen with more power. We thought by switching the gender's around it would make the audience to think twice about what is portrayed as the right way to them and see women as powerful and dominating characters. We also wanted to add humour into our video by the women being coruscation blonde and girly and them trying to be gangster. While the females lip sink the coloured male voices.

We decided to to draw out our key ideas and shots on the storyboard this co

ntained the continuous use of shots in each verse and character. We did this because it was a more improvisational technique. Our storyboard was a guideline for all of the group from crew to atresses because it let us go back to our first thoughts and ideas of what we wanted our music video to look like, it also helped as remember what you were looking for in terms of shots etc. We have decided to shoot against a green screen as we felt that it would be harder for the actresses to perform there and also because we can get the lighting to look more professional and add interesting background footage if we wanted too.

We wanted our actresses to dress how the males in 'normal' rap video would dre

ss as the public would associate it with the urban culture and the music; we want thigns like over sized grafic t-shirts. hoodies, flat caps, chains and high tops. These things are all typical of the Wu Tang Clan's appearance and other Hip - Hop rap videos, this will all add to our overall aim of stereotypes. This will also add to the humour we want to create to keep the video light headed and more enteraning as their white, blonde females.

We didnt have a narrative to our video as we wanted to stick true to what our genre presents and in most of our genre's kind of videos there are no narrtives and the characters generally just perform to the camera engaging with the viewer.

For our shots and movements we are going to use close ups, slow zooms in and out and slow pans across and up from the feet. many different angles from high up, from side and from below. We did this as well as using variation of people that filled the frame, sometimes as solos or

duets or groups of three. We thought these verity of shots will work well for our genre of hip hop rap and keep the viewers interested and engaged.

We have chosen to use close ups if the our characters faces so the audinece can see the expressions and emotions. We have chosen mid shots as they are the some commonly used shot in any genre of music videos and it makes the character a better presents as it shows the upper body showing body language etc. We want to add interest to our shots by adding profile shots and static shot of the characters standing still into the camera menacially as this will put across to the audinece a sense of power from the women.

The storyboard allows us to pre - visualise our video and document our initial ideas that we can keep up with through out the process if making our video. It will also refer to where at all times the project is going and where all memebers of crew are meant to be and how w

e are meant to be doing at all stages of the production and post production. I think the storyboard is good as it is a detailed description of what is going to happen so we dont get lost along the way and so we stick to what you want and what we want our audience to see.

Shooting Script

After making our story board we created a shooting script which is used for the actually filming. This shooting script is to help as schedule our shooting says and list what shits what want to film on what day. There are space in the shooting script which are for us to write information about every shot we take and which shots worked and which ones didnt. This saves us on editing when capturing back.

Booking Equipment

In our case of filming we didnt have to hire out our equipment or have a fee. The only thing that we had to follow by is that we had to book equipment 48 hours in advance and have it for 2 day maximum. This is because the equipment was on high demand due to other media student. Before shooting we will need to go a rish assesment form whenever we want to book out things.