Shot List - Planning for Video

Shot List

00:00-00:00:5

Int. establishing shot of the artist with gel over redhead – edit to the beat, cut to next shot on the beat

00:00:05-00:02

Ext. establishing shot of narrative – two actors sitting against a wall, actors seen from bottom half of the shot down, limited view of the actors but location of prime focus – edit to the beat

00:02-00:04, lyric ‘boy’

Int. extreme close up on artists mouth lip syncing lyrics, employ rule of thirds here, gel should be used but different previous lip-syncing shot

00:04-00:05

Ext. switch back to actors, bird eye view close up of actors lying on ground, romantic, heads next to each other, looking up, first shot reinforcing romance so actors should be holding hands (refer to storyboard for full layout)

00:05-00:07, lyric ‘boy’

Int. lip-syncing shot, establishing new setting for the artist to lip sync in, edit to the beat same as previous edits

00:07-00:09

Ext. establishing shot of location, shot of key location of a place of interest

00:09-00:11, lyric ‘boy’

Ext. actors sitting back to back to each other, representing unity and trust, one actor lies their head on another’s shoulder, movement

00:11-00:12

Ext. establishing shot of location

00:12-00:13

Int. listening, editing to the beat here so more than one cut should be made (approx. 5 or less), experiment with different lip-syncing shots but should be colourful, representing LGBQ+ theme of video

00:13-00:16, lyric ‘stealing kisses from your misses’

Int. lip-syncing shots, conform to Andrew Goodwin’s theory of music videos having the artist lip-syncing on the first lyric, have that here.

00:16-00:19, lyric ‘does it make you freak out?’

Ext. lip-syncing shot, interrogative so artist should sing at audience to emphasise lyric, different from pervious, make a contrast

00:19-00:21, lyric ‘got you first’

Ext. long shot of actors sitting on a bench, actors the subject but are placed in bottom left of the shot, emphasis on the exterior, one actor is on their phone, another is looking through a camera

00:21-00:23, lyric ‘and got you worried’

Ext. same shot, close up on both on the bench, one actor holds the hands of the another, they look at each other and smile

00:23-00:25 lyric, ‘scared to let your guard’

Int. lip-syncing, similar to others, as song builds the artist should move more and dance or sway somewhat to the beat

00:25-00:28 lyric, ‘down, boys’

Int. lip-syncing continued, different setting

00:28-00:30 lyric, ‘boy’

Ext. lip-syncing, same as others, change of setting to keep audience anticipation

00:30-00:31 lyric, ‘boys’

Ext. same setting, actor with camera lifts camera up to film other actor

00:31-00:33

Ext, immediately cut to the film which the actor is filming, actor being filmed smiles and laughs and overs camera in a playful manner with her hand

00:33-00:37 lyric, ‘tell the neighbours I’m not sorry’

Int. artist lip-syncing

00:37-00:40 lyric, ‘if I’m breaking walls down’

Ext. change of setting for artist lip-syncing

00:40-00:43 lyric, ‘building your girl second’

Ext. hand held shot of the actors playing with the camera and flirting and the other actor takes the camera and films the other actor

00:43-00:47 lyric, ‘story, ripping all your floors out’

Ext. bird’s eye view and close up on actors lying on the ground looking up at the sky, they turn to look at each other and smile

00:47-00:48 lyric, ‘saw your face’

Int. extreme close up on artist lip-syncing

00:48-00:50 lyric, ‘heard your name’

Int. change of lip-syncing location to keep interest

00:50-00:53 lyric, ‘gotta get with you’

Ext. lip-syncing continues from artist as it is a key section of lyrics

00:53-00:59 lyric, ‘girls like girls like boys do’

Int. lip-syncing with interesting gel used to colour scene

00:59-01:00 lyric, ‘nothing new’

Int. artist lip-synching on a close up

01:00-01:04 lyric, ‘isn’t this why we came’

Ext. tracking shot, forward, actor walking away from camera. One of the actors walking through a busy street (location _____)

01:04-1:07 lyric, ‘gotta get with you’

Ext. artist lip-syncing, matching the previous setting

01:07-01:09 lyric, ‘girls like girls’

Int. artist lip-syncing with coloured gel

01:09-01:12 lyric, ‘like boys do’

Ext. actors walking and holding hands

01:12-01:13 lyric, ‘nothing new’

Ext. artist lip-syncing, shaking head, powerful and impactful, directly conveying message her to audience

01:13-01:19 lyric ‘girls like girls like boys do’

Ext. short sequence of actors in love, smiling, laughing, happy in different locations (in Ext.)

01:19-01:21 lyric, ‘nothing new’

Int. artist lip-synching with coloured gel, continuing the have an impact in spreading message

01:21-01:27 lyric ‘boys’

Ext. period of short establishing shots (2/3) of Underground location

01:27-01:31 lyric, ‘always gonna steal your thunder’

Ext. shots of actors on the Underground as this notes adventure and travel in unison and in partnership

01:31-1:33 lyric, ‘watch me like a’

Ext. artist lip-syncing in a bright location

01:33-01:34 lyric, ‘dark cloud’

Int. complete contrast, employ the ‘dark’ to great a physically darker location to create a literal meaning

01:34-01:37 lyric ‘on the move collecting numbers’

Ext. actors literally on the move, walking down the street holding hands, talking enthusiastically

01:37-01:41 lyric, ‘imma take your girl out’

Int. artist lip-syncing and directly addresses audience here as if this is her intentions

01:41-01:46 lyric, ‘we will be, everything that we’d ever need’

Int. another gel setting, different mise en scene, artist lip-syncing, focus on ‘we’, addressing audience

01:46-01:49 lyric, ‘don’t tell me’

Ext. Artist lip-syncing, shaking head, relating to lyrics here, a passionate connection

01:49-01:51 lyric, ‘tell me what I feel’

Ext. actors hugging

01:51-01:55 lyric, ‘I’m real and I don’t feel like boys’

Int. artist lip-syncing, directly relating to the lyrics here

01:55-01:58

Ext. establishing shot of interesting and colourful elements of surrounding location

01:58-02:01 lyric, ‘I’m real and I don’t feel like boys’

Int. artist lip-syncing, directly relating to the lyrics here

02:01-02:03 lyric, ‘saw your face’

Ext. shot of actors face, laughing, happy

02:03-02:05 lyric, ‘heard your name’

Ext. artist lip-syncing

02:05-02:08 lyric, ‘gotta get with you’

Int. artist lip-syncing

02:08-02:10 lyric ‘girls like girls’

Ext. actors holding hands, close up

02:10-02:15 lyric ‘like boys do, nothing new’

Ext. actors exploring location and surrounding, posing and laughing, joyful

02:15-02:18 lyric, ‘isn’t this why we came’

Ext. actors on Underground, laughing and natural, literal representation of lyric

02:18-02:21 lyric, ‘gotta get with you’

Int. artist addressing camera directly while lip-syncing

02:21-02:27 lyric, ‘girls like girls like boys do’

Ext. actors hugging and a loving relationship is presented

02:27-02:28 lyric, ‘nothing new’

Int. artist directly addressing camera

02:28-02:33 lyric, ‘girls like girls like boys do’

Int. several different shots of artist against the different colour gels, edited to the beat

02:33-02:35 lyric, ‘nothing new’

Int. several different shots of artist against the different colour gels, edited to the beat

02:35-02:38 lyric, ‘I’ve been crossing’

Ext. sequence of shots of actors laughing/breaking character as this is natural

02:38-02:42 lyric, ‘all the lines, all the lines’

Int. artist lip-syncing to this

02:42-02:45 lyric, ‘kiss your girlfriend’

Ext. sequence of shots of actors laughing/breaking character as this is natural

02:45-02:47 lyric, ‘made you cry’

Int. artist lip-syncing and dancing slowly to this

02:47-02:53 lyric, ‘boys’

Ext. sequence of shots of actors laughing/breaking character as this is natural

02:53-02:55 lyric [end]

Int. artist slowly dancing and stops when the music doesn’t continue.

Cut to black.

The song continues until 03:49, however, I am finishing the song early due to the brief stating that the video is three-minutes, so to keep to the brief I have found a suitable place to conclude the song early without obstruction to the video and continue a natural flow in the song.