Music Video - Planning

Planning

1. Shot panning right to where Chip is asleep under a computer desk,  stopping on his face as his eyes open. (Close up of eyes opening)  

2. I’d shot of him sitting up and looking around, then a shot from his own perspective (POV) with the camera panning right to left.  

3. Wide shot of a bad performing, cut in with close ups of a random person performing with their instrument (maybe the guitarist strumming in time with the music). 

4. Mid shot of him climbing up onto a chair looking worn out from the side.  

5. Two close ups of band members performing. 

6. Close up from his face of him sitting down then falling asleep. Eyes suddenly open to a shot that gradually zooms out while the people around him move quickly as he lip synchs the lyrics at a normal speed.  

7. Camera rapidly turns to the right and we see the lyrics ‘life’s an illusion’ appear on a computer screen. 

8. A very quick shot of him looking confused at the screen before and other rapid turn to the right to see him appear on a stage performing (wide shot) 

9. Close up of him performing looking bored (extreme close up) 

10. Camera turns to face people cheering in the seats, switching place randomly. 

11. Quick second long clips (close ups) of people smiling, played I time with the chords of the song). 

12. Another shot of the cheering crowd. 

13. Another rapid camera turn to face the computer screen again, this time with the lyrics ‘I was so tired of being upset’ 

14.  Mid shot of him looking at the screen. 

15. A shot from another angle of him standing up and walking out of frame. 

16. A slow motion wide shot of him walking down a corridor while those around him walk by rapidly in ‘fast motion’. He is lip syncing the lyrics again. 

17. Another quick mid shot of the band performing. 

18. A very similar shot of the smiling people, but this time they’re different people. Once again, in time with the chords being played. 

19. Another scene of the bad performing but with each chord it’s a close up of each member, ending with chip looking bored. 

20. A collection of very short clips in varying places from varying distances. Each time chip is somewhere in the shot singing a line from the lyrics. 

21. A mid shot of the whole band performing. Jump cut to chip singing ‘but I know its’ (extreme close up) 

22. Two extreme close ups of the smiling people from earlier singing the words ‘ok ok’ 

23. A medium shot of Chip running out of the back door of Clarendon. 

24. Immediate jump cut to Chip running through the front door as if he’d never left the building (medium close up) e looks confused. 

25. A close up of the drummer from the band playing in time with the music in the background. 

26. With each chord, a shot of chip running through the front door again looking more and more confused each time, from a different angle every time.  

27. A dejected mid shot of him returning back upstairs. Shot from the side so we see him walk offstage. 

28. Another scene of the band performing but close ups to each member smiling again except Chip. 

Two identical scenes of him sitting back down under the table and him sitting down at the end of the song ‘mixed together’ (quick cuts between the two scenes ending with chip asleep under the table again).