Shot Composition Planning

In the performance part of our music video we are planning to have close up's of both the band, and specific instruments, medium close ups of the bands with their instruments and medium shots of the entire band playing. We also plan to have over the shoulder shots of our drummer and singer

We have taken ideas from some of The Killers' music videos as well as some from Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian, we looked at their videos that were performance based and looked at the way that the band and the instruments were represented and how the camera moved to flatter the band

We want some close ups of our band's faces similar to this one, we are going to film the close up from the front and side and see which one looks better and creates more of an effect, the main person that we are going to have close ups of is our lead singer so that is establishes him as the band front man.

We like the angle in which the camera looks down the bass guitar because it actually shows the instrument being played, we plan to do a shot similar to this but start at the body of the guitar then move the camera up to the neck to add camera movement into our video.

We want to have over the shoulder shots of both our drummer and our lead singer so that it offers a sort of point of view perspective to our audience, we want them to be able to feel what it would be like behind a drumset or microphone because even if you go and see a band live you dont get the availability of seeing everything.

 We like the close up of the hands playing the instrument and plan to get a shot similar to this in our music video, we would also like to have the lighting similar but will find it hard to recreate this with coloured lights so we are going to create an effect with white lights