Planning Cinematography

As cinematography stands it is going to basically be the camera shots we use and what effects and meanings we can give across by using specific shots. It's important because the camera shots are how the audience will perceive the scene and what happens and it is up to the camera shot on how the audience watch the product. Thats why it is so important to be able to make sure you place yourself in the place of the audience so you can see how something is filmed, especially how the view of the scene may affect the meanings that lay with the scene whether it is low angle to show how powerful someone is or how high a camera shot is to show how weak someone is and even this simple concept of camera shots is widely looked upon because it makes a lot of sense when the camera gives different definitions to each asset to the set. 

Looking at what a camera shot can do for the scene we think that we will use a variety to definitely make sure we are giving off multiple meanings and emotions to give a broad definition to our music video that goes with the song which is something that majorly appeals to our audience because rock genre songs are usually always written in the sense of emotion because of the feeling that rock music gives off so therefore we have to use many camera shots correctly to be able to give off a number of emotions to the audience that are parallel to the song so you can see what part of the song goes with which emotion.

As we have decided to use a number of camera shots we are going to go with a number of the very important ones that go with our music video and one of the first one we will aim to use during the filming process is a close up. The close up is very important because this is going to be taken of Sam in the band performance scenes, we want to get a close up of his face singing into the microphone and this is a great way to show emotion because of the distinguished facial expressions that will be present on Sam's face will be viewed close to the audience to reflect that feeling to them as well.

Apart from the close up on Sam we want to use an another camera shot on him and this time it will be a Mid- Shot of Sam because one of the things that appeal to the audience is the instruments use in the music video and it would be very good for us to be able to get a shot of Sam's upper body with the guitar showing so the audience can see his hands moving on the guitar as he plays it because as part of the band performance the individual band members own have a style of playing their instruments and this is what the audience love the most and it will be very crucial for us to include a nice shot of the lead guitar playing the main track to the song.

Moving away from Sam the rest of the band have as much of an importance just as the lead singer because members of the audience aspire to those of whom they play the same instrument as and we want to use a Long-Shot of the whole band working together like a team to pull a song throughout and for the rock genre audience it is vital we show the whole band performing because in a rock music video the best thing you can ever have is the band in one shot all doing there part for the music. This shot will have the Me playing drums at the back left, Harry playing the bass guitar on the right back and Sam as the lead vocals/lead guitar standing dead in the middle. The reasoning why the Vocals always goes centre is that the lyrics are flowing out of him and most the power and emotion to the music comes from them so you want them in the middle with the rest of the music flowing the energy around him to give off the music to the audience at its most powerful state. 

Another shot that we will use is because the drums are best viewed from the top as you can see everything going on this way as the drums are built around the drummer for him to play, this high angle shot is very conventional for a drummer in any music video with drums in it because you get the best view which also gives another perspective. This way it doesn't feel the drummer is being left out because he is in the back so with this view on him we are included every aspect as when the camera is on the drummer the audience will concentrate on the drum track and can over hear it which is effective because sometimes the drums feel like they are quite but ones you can synchronise the movement of the sticks to the sound coming through the music it will give the drums more volume.

We also want to use a Panning shot in our narrative because it is very good to show how wide and full a scene can be as the camera is moving it is picking up more than just the stil frame but more of the actual setting in the scene showing a range of scenery and its the best wait to follow the action and include much as you can.