Change of Song

I have decided to change the song for my music video as I have had a better idea that will hopefully look a lot more professional. The new song is still by Hoodie Allen so I am not straying from the genre of music I decided on to begin with. I am using the song 'Chase Is On'.

Props List

• Baseball bat
• Golf club
• Crowbar
• A variety of fruit

I do not need many props as most shots in my video will not include any. Therefore my prop list is very short. I have decided to do a scene where the actors smash fruit in slow motion so the props needed for that are listed above. 

Digipak Design Mock Up

This is my mock up of the digipak for Hoodie Allen's song "Let It All Work Out". I included pictures from Hoodie's last song "All About It" in this design because the ridiculous costumes give the digipak a sense of humour that would otherwise be lost.

Shots and Camera Angles Mood Board

In my video I intend to use a variety of shots that will create different effects and show different views of the video. I will use a lot of mid shots to show my actors during the video as I will use lip syncing through just under half of the video. However I will also use a lot of long shots, low angle shots and close-ups to display the surroundings and include a lot of creative shots that will improve my video.

Location Mood Board

Hoodie Allen - Let It All Work Out - Lyrics

[Intro]
Your heart pounds with precision, a king dies inside his courts
Your heart pounds with precision, a king dies inside these doors
Let it all work out (x 4)

[Verse 1: Hoodie Allen]
She ask me when you coming to my college
Cause she's all about it
I said that's 40,000
Dollars she ain't got em
She begs her parents constantly
She got A's in all her classes but I know she wants the D
Look at your kid do the math
Running over the game while you're taking a nap
Vehicle manslaughter when they gimme the rap
Probably need a miracle to mirror you back
Make fans, move units, Tim Taylor, that's home improvement
Cameras follow me everywhere but don’t call me truman
Resume is like a Rubik's Cube cause it's hard to use and I'm hardly using my brain
Fans screamin my name dog well that feelings always insane
The band wagon bout to leave the station, so hop it on to that train
Always motivated by love
Never motivated by fame
Blink once, it's like "what's my age", they stressin off of my accolades
People tellin me I'm doin great, but honestly I just can’t relate
And I'm going through some shit that got me stressin out
But like my homies told me

[Chorus: Sampha]
Let it all work out (x8)

[Verse 2: Hoodie Allen]
Let me..
Be the guy that I'm suppose to
The person I envisioned
The boy who be all like I told ya
My dream keeps gettin bigger and every year I get older’
Somehow got my diploma
And now I own it like Oprah
Sorry I ain’t fo shit, the minute
With all these bridges, sometimes I get tunnel vision
I’m thinking how I’m bout to cross some long division
Only 5’9 but in the center on position
But I been in the game and I came to ball
Sent one tweet like "I came to the mall"
Hundred motherfuckers gonna show right up
Tried that shit in Oklahoma City it was loud as fuck
Mothers dropped they daughters off
Now they got me runnin' like we never shut the water off
Homie take this quarter off
I throw your ass some Gatorade
Always been a free agent but know my team they came to play
It could be one against a hundred
I promise they'll never stress me out
Cause like my homies told me

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Ya know they say like
99% of the things we worry about everyday don't even happen
So I'm gonna spend all that extra time
Fuckin' yo bitch
Woop
And when I'm done
We both can go to Applebee's
I tell her "You can get whatever you want"
She want that appetizer sampler
You can't get that sampler but I got it
I got em like that
Bitch have all of the buffalo wings you want

Costume Mood Board

I have chosen one costume for each of my actors. For my fist actor I have chosen a denim jacket, a black hoodie, a grey tshirt and black skinny jeans with black trainers. This outfit is typical of young people in this area and fits in with the artists style of clothing so will therefore be relevant for my video. The same applies for my second costume which consists of a green/beige jacket, a white tshirt and denim jeans with grey trainers. This outfit is also worn by my artist and fits in with his style so will be succesful in my video.

Permission Letter To Artist

I was unable to find an official address or email address for the artist Hoodie Allen and due to him being an independent artist, I was forced to contact him via social media.

Initial Ideas/Brainstorm

Preliminary Task Planning (Lyrics)

"Knock You Down"
(feat. Kanye West, Ne-Yo)

[Keri Hilson:]
Heh... not again...
Oh... this ain't supposed to happen to me...

[Kanye West:]
Keep rockin', and keep knockin'
Whether you Louis Vuitton-ed up or Reebok-in'
You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter
So what we gon' have - dessert or disaster?

[Keri Hilson:]
I never thought I'd... be in love like this
When I look at you my mind goes on a trip
And you came in... and knocked me on my face
Feels like I'm in a race
But I... already won first place

I never thought I'd... fall for you as hard as I did
(As hard as I did, yeah)
You got me thinkin' about our life, our house and kids (yeah)
Every morning I look at you and smile
Cause boy you came around and you knocked me down... knocked me down

[Chorus:]
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)

[Ne-Yo:]
I've never thought I
Would hear myself say (ooh)
Ya'll go ahead
I think I'm gonna kick it with my girl today (Kick it with my girl today)
I used to be commander and chief
Of my pimp ship flyin' high (flyin' high)
'Til I met this pretty little missile who shot me out the sky (oh shot me out the sky)

(Hey) 'til now I'm crashing, I don't know how it happened
But I know it feels so damn good
Said if I could go back, and make it happen faster
Don't you know I would baby if I could
Miss independent (oh, to the fullest), the load never to much, she helping me pull it
She shot the bullet that ended that life
I swear to you the pimp in me just died tonight

[Chorus:]
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)

[Kanye West:]
Tell me now can you make it past your caspers
So we can finally fly off into NASA
You was always the cheerleader of my dreams
To seem to only date the head of football teams
And I was the class clown that, always kept you laughin'
We, were never meant to be baby we just happened
So please, don't mess up the trick... hey young world I'm the new slick rick
They say I move too quick, but we can't let the moment pass us
Let the hourglass pass right into ashes
Let the wind blow the ash right before my glasses
So I wrote this love letter right before my classes
How could a goddess have asked someone that's only average
For advice
O.M.G, you listen to that, bitch?
Woe is me
Baby this is tragic
Cause we had it, we was magic

I was flyin', now I'm crashin'
This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson
Now I'm mad, real mad, Joe Jackson
You should leave your boyfriend now, I'm a ask him

[Keri Hilson:]
So I gotta put the good with the bad, happy and the sad
So I'll bring a better future than I had in the past
Oh Cause, I don't wanna make the same mistakes I did
I don't wanna fall back on my face again
Whoa, whoa
I'll admit it, I I was scared to answer loves call
Whoa, whoa
And if it hits better make it worth the fall

(When it comes around)

[Chorus:]
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)
Sometimes love comes around
(Love comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)

Won't see it coming when it happens
But when it happens you're gonna feel it, let me tell you now
You see when love come and knocks you down (oh)

Won't see it coming when it happens
But when it happens you're gonna feel it, let me tell you now
You see when love comes and knocks you down (yeah)

Preliminary Task Planning

For the preliminary task, I am in a group of three people, we have to recreate a music video from a small selection. As a group, we decided to do the video for 'What Time Is It?' from High School Musical 2. This task will help my group with practising the different techniques and shot types that are required to create an effective music video.

To start this task, we watched the video and created a frame by frame storyboard so that we could make our prelim as close to the original as possible. The storyboard will help us to choose the right actors/actresses for each shot and what type of clothing they should wear.