Preliminary Planning

For our preliminary task we had to create a short music video for a popular song; for this task I was working in a group of four consisting of: Me, Matthew Jones, Mitchell Ward, & Kieran Hill.

Song & Setting
The song we decided to plan and create our music video to was the 
popular hit 'I get around' by 'The Beech Boys' we decided that we where going to film our music preliminary in Skegness which is a popular and traditional British holiday destination; we chose this setting as we felt that it would fit in very well with our up beat song. 

The style in which we decided to plan and create our music video in was illustration by using footage that narrates the lyrics; however we decided to add in a twist to make our video catchy and added an act of comedy to each of our small sketches based on the lyrics.

Props & Costume

In order to relate to the identity that 'The Beech Boys' had by all wearing the same eye catching shirts, we decided to adopt this idea but manipulate it to relate to the comedy side of our video and purchased hula skirts for each main cast member: Dan Harris, Kieran Hill, Matthew Jones, & Mitchell Ward.

Other props and costume included:

• Inflatable shark - to feature in the video relating to the lyric 'the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.'
• Loaf of bread - to feature in the video on the lyric 'Im making real good bread'
• Cool Box - to feature on the lyric 'Im a real cool head'
• Sunglasses - to give a 'holiday look' to the video
• Guitar - to mimic playing the guitar riff in the song
• Bucket & Spade - to give 'holiday look'

Equipment Needed

• Camera - Cannon EOS 650D
• Portable iPod dock - to play the song while filming to ensure lip syncing was accurate to the track
• Tripod