Treatment

Treatment

The ideas that I have for my video are based off play-through videos from bands around the world, as it’s a common type of video for this genre of music, I plan to use my house as the location as previously said and I don’t intend to use the entire band, as it’s hard enough putting a whole band together and getting them to learn a song, and the band that I am in live at various distances from each other (Whitstable, Brighton) which makes being in the same place at one time isn’t plausible, as we often struggle to practice within our free time, also due to the genre I am limited to the amount of people I’d be able to use for the video as some techniques used for playing it aren’t simple and easy to do, thus making the authenticity of the video hard if someone isn’t able to actually play the song. I plan to just use guitars, bass, and vocals, as drums would be far harder to keep on top of which is a shame. I want to mainly focus on the guitars because it’s based for a play-through video.

The costumes won’t be much of a problem for this video, as the people in the video would wear clothing that is specific to the genre itself, these items include:

 -              Skinny jeans & baggy short (black or blue/band merchandise)

-               Baggy t-shirts or vests (black or white, also burgundy)

-               Beanie hats & snapback hats

-               Mainly canvas styled shoes

-               Baggy hoodies (Black/White)

Also the misc-en-scene with the video will obviously include a guitar as it’s what we will be playing the song on, I intend to also use the typical associated items that band would be assumed to have in a situation as this as a touring situation or living the “rockstar lifestyle”, so scattered around the room will be items that are relevant to parties and items that would be seen if a group of friends were hanging out, such as alcohol, playing on game consoles, typical laughing and generally being stupid together as what friends do.

The editing for this video I intend for there to be a new camera angle or shot ranging around every 2 – 4 seconds, the camera angles that I want to use will be based around the angles of the guitar as that’s my main focus, these will include high angle shots for pointing down the neck of the guitar for a demonstration of what’s being played, also connected with low angle shots from the guitar. Wide angle shots of what’s being played along to the song. I do not intend for many of my camera angles to be steady as I prefer angles when they’re panning or moving around which I learnt from last year, as many/all of the shots that were used tended to still or with a slight pan here and there. Whereas this year from just message around with camera angles in my free time I’ve noticed the drastic difference in effects given off when the camera is moving.

For editing in my piece I would like to experiment with slow motion depending on the frame rate of the camera, of course not all of the shots will be in slow motion but I want to be able to utilise it and test myself as I am yet to experiment with editing further than just basic cuts. As I said previously I wish to edit to camera angle every 2 – 4 seconds and very rarely go over, the editing must stick to the beat of the track and go in time with each riff of the song.

I want to use lighting for when the guitars are being played, although the guitars being used have a gloss finish rather than a satin or matte finish and the light may reflect, I wish to make it obvious that the subject of the camera angles is the guitar, I will stick to high-key lighting throughout my video due to the whole point of it is to be visible as I want there to be an obvious target, I will use slightly more low-key lighting when it comes to shots that aren’t about the song being played also.