Music video- Planning

Bedroom scene;

At the start of the video i want a scene to show the young girls deprived life, this will be shown through darkness created by low key lighting, lack of bed created by sleeping on the floor and nice warm blanket. With her only escape route as a fairy tale book. The book will be the main feature as it will be the only object in the frame that will be in colour. She will then enter a dream world, this will be shown through a transition and will happen at a change in the song (to make it more obvious)

Starts off with a medium shot of young girl reading the book. cuts to different angles and then a window scene. She then is seen going to sleep and this is where the transition for the dream will happen.

I did research in sets that have successfully portrayed depravity with out being too obvious.

I found that they all had low key lighting and when there was a sleeping scene, they slept on the floor. Another thing they did was putting dirt on the persons face. I didn't want it to be that extreme so i though i'd refute that idea. Another idea i had was for her costume to be quite tatty for example turn a t-shirt inside out.

Preparation for the shot;

The first thing i did was to pick the room, i found a fairly old type room with a low window and thought it would be perfect. i then added a small pillow and thin blanket on the floor with the camera pointing directly at it. i had some lighting as in order for the camera to pick it up it need to just be enough. I filmed in the day so i'd have the extra light coming from the window however my initial plan was to film at night and see stars outside. I removed any objects that didn't need to be there and placed my story board behind the bed for a clue.

Call sheet;

Snow White scene 

All of the dream scenes i want them to be really bright and colourful this will mainly be done when coming to editing however i do still need to make sure that light is appropriate, picked up on the camera as already quite bright and i use colourful objects. I will film this in the middle of the day, that way it will be at its lightest. After the girl enters the dream i will then introduce a fairy book which will help narrate the story so the audience will understand, then using a blood read apple the girl will pick it up in fascination.


The mise-en-scene will be very natural and resemble woods, i have placed the apple in a place that is low down enough for the girl to reach it, but also so it stands out of the frame.

Next, the focus is on the mirror which represents the magic mirror in snow white, in order to look good i had to put it fairly high up so i used a chair for her to stand on.

Call sheet;

Cinderella scene 

At the start of this scene just like the previous on their is a turn of the fairy book's page to illustrate the change between each fairy tale. This scene includes a glass slipper and an invitation to the princes ball. I felt that these were both significant objects from this fairy tale and also easy to get them. 

This was set on a path as she is walking down a path when she spots these item's. I wanted it to be very bright and colorful so the glass slipper would sparkle. I use close ups to see her expressions and also the items she's holding.

Little red riding hood 

This is the final set. I used a red coat and basket as the two significant objects, she them tries it on and has a walk around in them. I had to do this scene last as there had to be a change in costume. In this scene i really wanted the red of the coat to pop out of the frame, i used a garden to film with a little brick house in their. 

Once again i used bright lighting and colourful objects to create the contrast between the first scene and the dream.

Final bedroom scene

This was to create the waking up from the dream part, i thought in order for it to be a fairy tale their has to be a happy ending. So i found a bed that i thought was big and 'princess' like and got the girl wake up in that. This time the light was bright, another alteration was her costume as she woke up in her fairy dress which she has worn in the dream.
For the final part of my music video i want to end on zooming into the shoe which is on the side in the new bedroom she woke up in. The location was actually in the same room as the first scene however changing the lighting and the bed created a whole new look.

Performance scenes 

At first i thought id dress her looking an average female artists wearing black loads of make up etc. However when gaining more knowledge from my research of hayley she is always a lot more natural and i decided to keep this as her trade mark.

So i did her hair up, and her make fairly simple but to fit in with her costume.

The performance scenes where made up of different close ups and medium shots. This is usual for the artist to have close ups. The lighting was bright and i specifically picked her costume so it was bright and will stand out in different effects.

Most of the shot where done in one garden, but some of the performance scenes where shot on Cannock chase (forest)

Of course i didn't shoot it all in order as this would be silly when moving around venues.