Preliminary shot list

We have decided to plan our shot list before we go out to start filming to ensure that we have a good idea of how to structure our plot. It is only a preliminary list as we can change and adapt shots to suit what is best at the time.

Before the music starts:

• Long shot from a reflection in the mirror of the girls talking and dancing
• Close up of MiMi
• Medium shot of the girls dancing
• Close up of MiMi sitting down
• High angled shot of MiMi texting
• Over the shoulder shot of the phone
• Extreme close up of the phone screen with music title

Music begins and first verse:

• Long shot of MiMi getting off the bus
• Floor shot of MiMi's feet as she's walking
• Point of view shot of MiMi having a memory of herself and Cass together
• Medium shot of MiMi and Cass during the memory
• Close up shot of MiMi and Cass during the memory
• Medium shot pan

chorus:

• dolly shot
• Medium shot reflected in the mirror
• high angled
• low angled
• close up
• feet shot
• medium shot
• dolly shot 360

verse 2:

• point of view shot
• establishing shot of town
• long shot of traffic
• medium shot of MiMi sitting of the park bench
• medium shot of MiMi and Cass on the park bench for the memory
• point of view looking down
• extreme close up of MiMi's eyes
• close up of Cass and MiMi
• over the shoulder shot of MiMi texting

Hook:

• Long shot of MiMi walking towards the camera
• Close up of her face
• High angled long shot
• medium shot
• close up of MiMi singing
• side on shot of MiMi of looking at phone

Chorus:

• similar shots but in a different location
• establishing shot of castlefield showing MiMi in the distance
• medium shot of chairs
• medium shot of MiMi an Cass sat down
• high angled close up of MiMi and cass holding hands across the table
• close up of MiMi texting
• medium of MiMi walking towards the bridge
• long shot of MiMi spotting Cass and Harriet together
• shot reverse shot close up between Cass and MiMi
• pan down of MiMi dropping her phone

About Jazmine Sullivan

About Jaazmine Sullivan
Jazmine Marie Sullivan was born on April 6th 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she grew up in the middle of her two brothers. Jazmine as always been bought up around music as her mother is a former backup singer for Philadelphia International Records.
Jazmine began singing in the children’s choir, then a few years later in the adult choir. Jazmine`s exposure to music was initially limited, "I was doing solos in church and someone wanted me to sign to a gospel label when I was eleven but I wasn’t ready to do that," she recalls. Jazmine then she entered McDonalds competition for kids in big cities, every really liked her and she got to perform with Stevie Wonder at his grandson`s brithday at the age of 13. At the age of 16 Jazmine signed a record label "Jive Records" bit the album was never relased, after this she was droped from the label. Jazmine thought back and made her own album al by her self.

Music Career

Jasmine has also been credited as a songwriter on R&B singer, Fantasia's debut album "Free Yourself". She also penned hits for the likes of Christina Millian and her hit single "Say I", among other songs from her 3rd studio album So Amazin. She was also credited as a songwriter on Jennifer Hudson's song, "I'm His Only Woman" featured on Hudson's self-entitled debut album, Jennifer Hudson.

Jasmine first appears with "need you bad" in may 2008 with Missy Elliot which went straight to number one. She then later released her first album in the September of 2009.

She then released her second single "bust your windows" which went to reach number 4 in America. A remix of the song then appeared and was nominated for best Rn B song.

After doing so well in America Jasmine decided to release a single in the UK called "Dream big" in June 2009. She then went on to supporting act for Neyo in his " Year of the Gentleman "

Jazmine has been nominated for a number of awards and won many including:

• BET Awards
  • 2009, Best Female R&B Artist (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best New Artist (Nominated)
  • 2009, BET Centric Award (Winner)

• Grammy Awards
  • 2009, Best New Artist (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Need U Bad" (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best R&B Contemporary Album: "Fearless" (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best R&B Song: "Bust Your Windows" (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "I'm In Love With Another Man" (Nominated)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Inspiration

Need you bad was written by Jazmine Sullivan herself and produced by Missy Elliott. Jazmine’s frank, take-no-prisoners approach to songwriting, coupled with her passionate delivery, will quickly establish her as the one to watch this year and years to come. Furthermore, Missy Elliott already has years of experience as an artist and producer so knows what her target audience will want to see.

However, when watching the real video for this song, the group felt that it wasn't very exciting or adventurous. It had the basic elements of a music video but didn't experiment with many idea's and didn't show the story that the song was telling. As a result, one of our inspirations for choosing this song was to produce a more creative and interesting music video than the original.
We realise with no budget this will be difficult, but as a group we all have many good idea's that we have merged together to create a dance element of the video which shows the artist and have planned a story element of the video to illustrate exactly what the song is about.

Location

1st image zion center

2nd image outside zion centre

3rd outside picadillyArndale

4 th outside primark

5th big wheel

6th castlefield bar

7th lake

8th castlefield bridge

Here are some location of Castlefield, Zion centre, Manchester high street which we are using for our locations .

Cassius Bynoe.

Planning for our group music video
In media over the last two weeks we decided to go around Manchester looking for locations to use for our music video.

We decided to do this because it is very important as we will want to look for great places throughout the city which will make our music video look authentic & urban.
We are going to film at Casltlefield because, the location features a Canal which in my opinion will make our video look authentic compare to other music videos, the reason why because we as a group we are keeping to particular theme which is “Love”; so by having this prop in the video represents a location where couples go, to share each other company and its normally a place where a guy and a girl will meet up.

We are filming around Castlefield Park which is a very quiet location. the reason we are filming there is for the reason such as its, a place where your most likely are going to go to clear your head, or may go to sit back and to sum up current events, which happened through out the past, for example Mimi is thinking about here relationship with Cass in the video.

Second Location we used is on top of Manchester Arndale car park, why we decided to film their is because, theirs allot of great Background scenery in that particular location. As theirs the Big wheel which is an iconic attraction of Manchester .Another reason why we have decided to include the big wheel is because we plan to film it in the morning then, in the afternoon as it shows how long for example Mimi been sitting their which could suggest a meaning in how here relation ship keep on going round and round IN circles which is a good technique of irony.

Third location Mimi chose to film Market street as its busy also It gives the music video the idea of an Manchester environmental populated place where it’s a place in everyone’s goes to shop, look around in my opinion market street represent how people can go about their business an do their own thing which fits into our music video as were also trying to focus on Manchester as being a city like urban place to live life.

The music we are going to use is RNB/Reggae style which is very similar to the style of the classic Lovers Rock style as it features heavy dub lines with smooth sweet vocals form the corresponding artist known as Jasmine Sullivan. In contrasts the style of music is more modern as RnB & Reggae are mixed together, where as Lovers Rock features Soul with a Reggae rhythm for example our music chorus starts off with a heavy bass rhythm alongside Strong Patois vocals which the chorus gives a sense of Jamaican Reggae Roots ;then throughout the tune features a cross over between the two genres E.G. Reggae-RnB then back, you can tell this is happening as when the RnB kicks in the vocals of jasmine Sullivan become more stronger & the reggae fades away where as when the reggae hits its straight to the slow pace bass line.

Preparation

The first thing we had to decide on as a group was our song and genre. MiMi suggested using the song 'Need U Bad' by Jazmine Sullivan and after listening to it and reading the lyrics, we thought this would be a great song choice because it has a mixed R&B an Reggae genre and it has perfect lyrics to use for amplification. We then sat together and considered many idea's that we could use for filming the music video, we all had simlilar thoughts on how we should shoot it and discussed our own strenghts and weaknesses. This led us to decided that MiMi and Cass would be the best people to act in the video as they have more drama experience, whilst Harriet and I would do more of the filming and directing as we work better behind the scene's.

Next, we brainstormed some locations which we thought would be a good idea to use and went wrecking straight away to make our final decison about which places we would actually use. Castlefield, the Zion Arts Centre and the rooftop of Manchester Arndale shopping centre appeared to be the best choices for our video, where we could be as creative as possible.

Finally, we have met the dancers who will be performing in our video and MiMi has started learning the routine. So, the rest of the group have been considering all the different costumes and camera angles we can use when filming the dance routine and pictures we can take that can be used for promotion later on.

Planning

Throughout the last couple of weeks our group has done a lot of wrecking around Manchester, and seen some every good sights in which we would like to do shot our film. Some of our location include Zion centre in Hulme and Castlefield in the centre of Manchester, we are also doing other establishing shots around Manchester.

Our group have also started learning a dance routine which will be playing in the chorus this is progressing every well and will hope to be film this soon. We have also planned out the story line to the film and how our film will flow.

In the next couple of weeks we aim to start filming our dance routine and to get some filming done in our locations in order for to start our editing in 6 weeks.

Locations

As a group, we all took the time to go an visit different locations around Manchester before we decided on the final few locations where we would film.

Firstly, we decided to start our music video by opening with an establishing shot which will be taken from the roof of Manchester Arndale shopping centre. This enables us to have a birds eye view of the town and include recognisable buildings in the shot.

Moreover, after walking through it, we have decided to use different parts of Castlefield for the main part of our music video. It is a striking, quiet location with features that suit the lyrics and mood of our song. For example, it has a beautiful quiet park where the character can remember her happy memories and a dull canal and bridge where she has a heart braking moment.

Furthermore, we found the most favourable place to film the dancing scene's for our music video is the Zion Arts Centre. It has special dancing studies where the dancers feel comfortable performing, where we can control the background and lighting and where we can take many different camera shots. This will then make our music video more creative and exciting.

However, we chose not to use a train station as we may not have been able to get permission to film and it would have made keeping continuity difficult, as different people are there everyday.

Finally, we also decided not to film in Manchester town centre or in our college as they are popular an boring location choices and we preferred to find somewhere different an new.

Planning

I had personally picked the song over summer and my group agreed it would be a good choice, so we picked the song Need U Bad by Jazmine Sullivan as it is different and not widely known. The song's genre is called lovers rock, we thought that it was a perfect choice because one of our aim's is to have our project stand out and be different and it is a genre that is not popularily displayed . This is wikepedia's defintion of the genre;

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid 1970s.[1]

After listening to the song and learning about the three ways in which music videos relate visuals to song, (through illusration, amplification and disjuncture) ideas flowed easily and we decided on a concept that would embody a mixture of illustration and amplification through narritve and performance as well as concentration on star image.
Some of the reasons we chose to portay the video this way are because of our inspirations from award winninig R&B videos such as Michael Jacksons' Thriller and award winning Reggae vieods like Sean Paul's Get Busy. This way we could combine the two styles to create something new and different.

We wanted to get started immediately so we have gone wrecking on locations around Manchester's Piccadilly and to a place called Castlefields- a pretty and secluded area that we decided was ideal due to its romantic and yet isolated essence. Also we have started rehersal for the dance section in our video, using the Dance Space in the Zion Arts Centre where we will also be filming.