Over the past week, my partner and I have met with our two main cast members to discuss things such as:
- Time Management - Dates of filming, which dates were compatible with both our protagonists to film together, deadlines, etcetera
- Who will do what - For example, which scenes will feature who, their roles in this scenes, whether or not they will have to learn lyrics to mime, whether they are comfortable being filming in a particular setting, etc
- Where the filming will take place, so the cast can plan transport to locations and whether they are able to get there
- Costumes and props, what they will need to wear on set, etc
- How many other people will be involved
- The final concept idea for the music video
- Contact details, phone numbers and email addresses so easy communication is maintained
We only have a small cast list, as follows:
Female Mime: Milly Morris
Male Mime: Vince Mccumisky
Clown: Sam Ruane
As a result of this, instead of making an "Event Page" on the social networking site "Facebook", we decided to simply meet with out cast in person and discuss dates, times, costumes, locations, etcetera. That way we would have a clearer idea of what times and dates suited everybody best, and it make it easier to discuss possible issues such as transportation from location to location. We needed to give the cast a basic idea of what music video is about, therefore we gave both of our blog addresses to iyr, so the cast list could easily view our concepts and ideas.
Our blogs include our finished print production tasks, which gives the cast the best idea of the general look of the video, as we both related our digipaks and adverts to the music video concept. Our blogs also incorporate things such as videos that have given us inspiration, 'indie' genre information, shot types we find interesting, film clips that have given us ideas for our music video, etc. To guarantee that our cast fully understood the concept, we created a mood board in which we tried to summarise the whole concept of the music video. For this mood board we used Adobe Photoshop to create a compilation of internet images and our photographs.
(moodboard photo here)
We will show our cast the animatic storyboard and final concept ideas once they are completed, so they fully understand which shots they will have to be in and what sort of role they place in the music video.
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