EDM Questionnaire - What do you expect to see in a EDM music video?

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	Conor	Jordan	Matt	Results
Sexy girls	Yes	Yes	Yes	3/3
Dancing	Yes	Yes	Yes	3/3
People drinking (alcohol)	Yes	No	No	1/3
Smoking	No	Yes	No	1/3
People doing drugs	Yes	No	No	1/3
Physically fit men	Yes	No	No	1/3
Erotic dancing	Yes	Yes	No	2/3
People insinuating sex	No	Yes	Yes	2/3
Set in the winter time	No	No	No	0/3
Set in the summer time	Yes	Yes	Yes	3/3
People at the beach	No	Yes	Yes	2/3
Clubbing scenes	Yes	Yes	Yes	3/3

EDM Music Conventions

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EDM music videos don’t tend to have many codes and conventions which allows more freedom when filming. However, they do tend to all have love and sexual scenes which can show me that EDM may appeal to a younger generation (16-25). The videos tend to have clubbing scenes with women with minimal clothing, dancing and having fun. The atmosphere portrayed always seems to be wild and crazy and the people in the video always look like they are having the best time of their lives. The genre is a dance genre which relates back to why there would be lots of people dancing in clubs or wherever they are filming. The artist of the song tends to not feature in the music video which leads me to believe that the music videos are often narratives and the music video does not link to the lyrics.

Calvin Harris’ song, How Deep Is Your Love, follows the trend of EDM music conventions that I have listed above. The photo for the YouTube clip shows a half-naked woman in a pool which already shows me that this particular song follows the conventions of EDM. One of Harris’ other songs, Summer, shows us again that he conforms to the conventions of EDM music videos. I have taken a screen shot of the music video right at the start of the video (16 seconds in) and the shot is of a woman in erotic lingerie peering over a balcony;

This definitely shows me that the music video conforms to the conventions of the EDM music genre. 

Changing our idea

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We decided to change our genre to EDM as we thought that the music video would be better than what we would have created with the Indie Rock genre. We thought that we would enjoy creating an EDM music video as well as it is a genre that we all enjoy listening to as a group. The song that we decided to do was 'Pursuit of Happiness' from the film Project X. As we changed the song, we had to add more documents. I was in charge of the questionnaire and the EDM music conventions.

Prop Shop

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This is the prop list for our music video. We needed one so that we didn't forget any important props that we might need.

Shot List

Shot list
Shot no.	Duration	Shot Type	Angle	Movement	Action
1	2s	Close Up	Straight	Panning	Showing Jack and Sophie’s faces, portraying his annoyance and her slyness
2	3s	Mid Shot	High	Panning	Shows Jack looking over her shoulder as Sophie texts other boys.
3	3s	Mid Shot	Straight	Still	They begin arguing, Sophie is trying to convince  Jack she's doing nothing wrong
4	2s	Mid Shot	Straight	Still	Jack hints about her clothing, Sophie walks out
5	3s	Over the Shoulder	Straight	Zooming in	Sophie looking at photo’s of her mum, grieving her death, establishing a past for the actor
6	2s	Mid Shot	Straight	Still	Jack see’s Sophie sat down upset
7	1s	Over the Shoulder	Straight	Zooming in	Jack look’s at the photo’s over her shoulder
8	1s	Mid Shot	Straight	Dollying	Jack retracts from Sophie
9	2s	Close Up	Straight	Still	Shows Jack’s face as he starts to contemplate whether they should be together
10	2s	Establishing Shot	Straight	Panning	Establish and set the mood of the room the two actors are in
11	2s	Mid Shot	Straight	Still	Film the two actors having an argument
12	2s	Over the Shoulder	Straight	Still	This has built up with chorus - Over Jack’s shoulder, film Sophie arguing why Jack doesn’t care about anything
13	2s	Over the Shoulder	Straight	Still	Over Sophie’s shoulder film Jack being dismissive to the argument - in time with last verse of chorus
14	5s	Long Shot	Straight	Slow Motion	Film breaking glass of a photo of Jack’s mum and a bunch of roses being thrown in the air to represent them falling apart.
15	4s	Flashback	Straight	Still	Flashback to Jack’s childhood including bullying and looking at pictures of his mum in remembrance, showing why he is okay by himself without women.
16	4s	Long Shot	Straight	Panning	Shows Jack swinging on a swing in the park as he’s remembering his childhood. Swing links to childhood.
17	3s	Point of View Shot	Straight	Still	Show Jack looking at Sophie’s dark under eye make up and circles
18	3s	Point of View Shot	Straight	Still	Show Sophie looking at Jack as he claims she looks under-slept, hinting she spent the night with someone
19	3s	Establishing Shot	Straight	Panning	Show Jack and Sophie walking towards each other with Sophie crying
20	5s	Mid Shot	Straight	Still	Show Jack comforting Sophie, in time with the repeated “I’m a Pacifier” at the outro of the song, pacifier = comfort.

Costuming

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In the first half of the song, until the 17h shot, the two characters will remain in the same clothing. By doing this, it shows the repetitive, never ending circle of their arguing relationship. Sophie’s make up then changes at the 17th shot and they are both going to be in different clothing. This mise-en-scene matches the outro of the songs lyrics because he is repeating “I’m a Pacifier.” We linked this to mean that he is someone who can comfort Sophie and stop her from crying. Therefore, by them changing their appearance, the mise-en-scene helps the video to match the song and show their relationship is finally coming round and changing for the better because he’s  comforting her.

Sophie’s outfit for the first part of the video is going to be dark clothing. By having this dark clothing, it shows her as a mysterious character with a past behind her; her mothers death. It also shows her in a sad, negative state and sets the tone of the song. Jeans are also a piece of clothing popular for teenagers, and this makes it more relatable for the audience. She is going to be wearing a grey jumper, as this has a slight contrast against the black jeans and shows the hope there is when the relationship turns round at the end of the song.

 

Her make up at the first half of the music video is going to be relatively subtle. This shows again a boring, repetitive routine.

This changes to more dark make up at the 17th shot when she becomes emotional to show how much the argument is effecting her. This make up is also why Jack seems to think she has spent the night with someone else and the mise-en-scene helps the audience see why he may think this, she is in the same clothes with rubbed, dark make up.

Jack is going to be wearing black jeans and a black coat. This mise-en-scene shows him in the sad state he is in and portrays to the audience they are both in a bad place and this is shining through their clothing. He is going to be wearing jeans as well because this is again popular in his age range. This makes the video more relatable and meets the target audience. 

Music Video Production Risk Assessment

Music Video PRODUCTION RISK ASSESSMENT

Hazard	Persons who may be harmed	Property which may be damaged	Risk controls already in place	Risk Assessment LOW, MODERATE, HIGH, EXTREME (see table next page)
Falling over on concrete	Actors and crew	Phones used for filming	No spillages over slipping areas	MODERATE
Behaviour of dogs or animal in park	Actors and crew	Mise-en-scene	Stay away from any animals in the park	MODERATE
Spilling any hot drinks in cafe	Actor	Mise-en-scene, camera equipment	Being careful with handling hot drinks, make sure they aren’t served piping hot	MODERATE