schedule list

Completed

- Establishing shots of Leicester and abandoned buildings.
- Medium shots of main artist in the Leicester environment
- Chosen the artist name
- Chosen the song
- Researched into other music videos similar to our genre

To do/schedule list

- Performance run through with a hand held camera in Leicester
- Performance run through coming out a van
- Shots at a train station
- Shots at a controlled bonfire
- More medium shots of main artist doing mundane things such as, in shops, walking, talking with friends, etc.
- Filming with green screen 

Justified reasons

We gained establishing shots because almost all forms of cinematography, i.e. TV shows, music videos, films, etc, have establishing shots. We want our music video to look real and genuine so including establishing shots would add to the realism because real pieces of media use them. Establishing shots are used to show the audience where a certain character is to set up some kind development. In our case, we wanted to show how our main artist comes from the city in the establishing shots. Having cities included in the video fits with our genre because most indie artist come from medium sized cities like Leicester.

Abandoned buildings fit with our genre too because indie artists are often associated with rough, scummy, rural locations and abandoned buildings are also associated with this. Not only does it fit with our genre but it also looks better than either a standard building (this can be boring) or a spectacular piece of architecture (doesn't fit with the genre and wouldn't fit with the lightheartedness of the video.

We chose to call our artist "Bathtub Shouting" because it fits with the genre we are trying the replicate. Our genre is indie alternative; other artists in this genre have odd names such as 'King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard', 'Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti' and 'Dishrags'. As a group, we wanted to create a weird name like these. We chose Bathtub Shouting. The shouting can refer to the stereotypical rowdiness of indie artists and the bathtub element is the weird and 'out of the box' part of our artists name.

We chose Jamie T - Sticks And Stones. This is because we wanted to create a fun, loud and laid back music video and this song allowed us to do this because Jamie's delivery on almost all of his lines have the rowdy, laid back approach.

Using a hand held camera creates the feeling we are trying to create for our music video. Using a still camera, the song would seem empty but the hand held camera amplifies the rowdiness of the song. Rowdiness often is associated with chaos, chaos requires movement and hand held camera replicates this movement.

We wanted our main artist to burst out of a van and perform the song because the doors opening can amplify the 'kick start' attitude at the start of the song. The song starts off slow but then transitions quickly into a fast paced drum beat. The van doors opening and the main artist jumping out would amplify the transition into a loud and faster song because there would be physical movement to when the song 'kick starts'. Other artists have done this on a much larger scale, Slaves. We will take inspiration from this and replicate it on a much smaller scale because it won't be the main focus  of the video.

Shots at a train station would fit into our genre because train stations often belong to rough,rural estates that most indie artists come from. Other artists, including the one who's song we're using, have also used a train station. Jamie T uses the train as amplification to how the beat gets faster, the train gets faster. We could do this but it may be too close to the original video.

A bonfire would look good because fire has tie ins to danger and chaos. This fits in with our genre and we can use the fire as amplification to how the song is chaotic, reckless, rule breaking. Fires have all these qualities so it would make sense to use fire in the video. We are thinking to use fire to show how the song gets louder and louder. For this idea, we are thinking to have the fire starting at the start of the song and towards and during the final chorus, the fore is the biggest.

This idea sounds like it wouldn't fit with the recklessness of the video, however, other artists do this too. It also would connect with our target audience because it shows how the artist is a 'teenager just like them'. This is a theme that many indie artists have throughout their video because it allows a connection between the audience and the artist, this can make the artist more popular.

We have chosen to use green screen in our video for one of our shots. We believe that this will fit in with the genre because artists within the same genre have also done this. Artists such as rat boy and crystal castles have done the same. It looked bad and we want to replicate this effect. the effect that we want to replicate is a purposely bad green screen. This adds humor to a music video and a sense of lightheartedness. This is the atmosphere we want to create so it would make sense to incorporate green screen in our video. 

Joint written by Alfie Morgan, Alex Hunt and William Wright.