Production plan

Part of song	Scene	Special effects
Introduction	Putting on boots and jacket, preparing for outdoors. Walking outside	NA
“Hello Sender, h-hello Slender”	Walk out from behind trees	NA
“I just wanna be your friend, I don’t intend to offend”	Behind character walking	NA
“I don’t want all the pages”	Rips note off tree and looks confused	NA
“I’d rather chill in the woods together and talk for ages”	Zoom into a blanket/comfy spot on the floor	NA
“People say you’re bad but”	Mum talking on the phone about drama	NA
“I know the truth, you’re so nice I brought a present, a new tie for your suit”	Hands up presents for Slenderman- camera infront	NA
“So don’t glitch and abduct me I’m friendly”	Looks up Slendermans legs, cuts back to character offering presents	Either using a big cloth, or CGI Slender into the shot
“AH OH MY GOD I’LL GO BE FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE ELSE, JEEZE”	(Slenderman smashes gifts) Turns around and starts running towards camera (black screen)	Make a replica of Slenderman’s hand (paper)
“Hello mr, h-hello mr face, I just wanna be your bestest mate”	(Hands moves off of hand held camera)	NA
“You’re just a grunt to most but I think you’re great, so lets hang out and have a picnic!”	View of character doing a vlog with another camera (two cameras needed)	NA
“I won’t forget your birthday, I don’t have Amnesia”	Hand held camera POV	NA
“You’ve got a big mouth but we still share secrets”	Grunt’s face	Picture of Grunt
“What’s that? Huh? You wanna play tag?”	Close up of whispering in ear	NA
“OH OKAY I’LL FIND ANOTHER MONSTER TO ASK”	Run into camera	NA
“Hello monster, h-hello monster, I just wanna be your friend”	Stops running and walks	NA
“No-one wants to get hurt today” x2	Camera behind- looks behind and back forward	NA
“Hello monster, h-hello monster, I just wanna be your friend”	Stops running and walks	NA
“No-one wants to get hurt today” x2	Camera at side	NA
“Hello Necr- h-hello Necromorph, you wanna be my BFF? Of course!”	Walks round corner looking for Necromorph	NA
“If you’re ever feeling down buddy, you can embrace me”	Hugging Necromorph, handheld camera POV	Need a Necromorph figure/person
“Playing video games at my place, it’s dead spacey”	Character playing with Necromorph on XBOX	NA
“I want an alien buddy so I can look at the stars, and hear you gargle out the names”	Character falls down and looks up at the sky (camera above)	NA
“So I can point to where they are”	Characters eyes POV of pointing to the sky	NA
“Hey you’re smiling at me… I can see your teeth”	Picture of necromorph sitting in my garden	Picture of Necromorph
“AH OH MY GOD OKAY! I’LL LEAVE YOU IN PEACE”	Necromorphs POV lunging at character	NA
“Hello Pyramid he- hello Pyramid Head, I betcha been acting out because you need a friend”	Character walks around corner (character at end of road infront)- switches to tracking camera next to character- switches back to camera at the end of the street	NA
“I can tell you lift bro, we’ll visit the gym”	Lifts up sleeve and shows muscles	NA
“And then find a traffic cone and we’ll pretend we’re twins”	Puts cone on head	Either find one, or photoshop one in
“Lets take a trip to Egypt, you’ll be so popular, everyone would want to take pics”	Cuts to picture of Pyramid head in Egypt	Photoshop
“I hope customs aint strict with the metal detector- OH MY GOD OK I’LL ASK SLENDER AGAIN”
VERSE “I want Slenderman to be my frienderman, and we can take a road trip in the Slendervan”	Wilfred getting into the car	Wilfred’s moustache
“With the face and the morph there kicking it too, and Pyramid Head just picking the tunes” x2	Cut to characters in the car (Grunt, Necromorph and Pyramid head in the car)	Grunt, Necromorph and Pyramid head pictures
CHORUS	Both characters (pink and white) running away from the monsters, both bump into each other (POV runs into one character and falls down) Scene shows both characters in one shot	Cutting during editing- both characters in one shot

Character references

Slenderman

Grunt

Necromorph

Pyramid Head

Wilred Warfstache

What is a parody?

What is a parody?
Work that imitates another piece of work to ridicule, comment on, or make fun of the work itself, or the characters within the work.

Elements of parodies:

• Humour- Make the audience laugh
• References- use references from the original piece of work
• Screenplay- well written and relevant to the song

Potential target audience

Music video plan:

Song: Hello Monsta

However, we will modify the song so we can include the best part of the song into the video.

Location: Countesthorpe Community College

Members: Chay and Amy

Postmodernism element: Parody (of said song)

Props:

• Full body suit and marker- Slenderman (A)
• Pink stache and tie- Wilfred Warfstache (C)
• Companion cube, orange trousers -Chell (A)
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Black Veil Brides video analysis

The first scene that is shown in this music video is a torn up flag saying "BRING THE WAR". This sounds rebellious and this is a characteristic of a rock or metal music video.

The band

The first time the audience sees the band, you can automatically notice the fog and fire. The fire may be linked to the title of this music video 'Heart of Fire'.
The fog makes a good aspect of this video because the light reflects off of it and it gives the video a grunge feel. These factors of this music video demonstrates the genre characteristics also because of the stage performance, typically shown in in rock videos.

The use of fire can be seen throughout the entire music video. This shows a relationship between the music and the lyrics because as the words 'Heart of Fire' are sung, the fire in the scene flares up, this is an example of an amplifying relationship between the lyrics and visuals.

CC

Along with the fire, the audience can see the rubble and dirt in front of the clean stage where the band is performing. This shows the grunge characteristics of this video, and it gives the music video a rock/ alternative vibe.

The band

The fire also helps bring out the props on the stage. It emphasises the guitars that Jake, Ashley, and Jinxx are using, and further emphasises the BVB rosary at the back, which is also lit on fire.
In a lot of scenes, the camera cuts on beat to the fire raging up, which is amplifying.

Andy

The clothes that the band wear shows an illustrative view of the artist because this is how they usually appear when attending gigs or meeting fans. 

Ashley

The leather, fishnet, gloves, studs, and metal necklaces all represent the rock, metal or alternative genre of music. The light behind the members also helps emphasise these clothes and connotes a much stronger relationship with their clothes and the music that they're representing.

Andy

Swearing in rock music videos is very common, whether it is verbal or visual (however it is very rare for this particular band).
This then emphasises the rebellious characteristics of the music genre because mainstream music either avoids swearing, or bleeps/blocks it out in their music videos.

Andy and Ashley

Jinxx and Jake

Jake

These poses from various members of the band are typical guitar poses from rock bands. These include the leaning back and holding up the guitar during a riff, and the leaning back onto the back of another member during a guitar riff. These are famous rock guitar moves and further emphasises the genre of the music.

The use of location for this video connotes a strong grunge genre. Characteristics of grunge is dirt, run down areas, barbed wire and/or fencing, and graffiti, which this video has all 3. This is a good characteristic to use in rock videos to connote the roughness of the music and it used very frequently.

 Several angles used in this music video are slanted. This gives a disorientating vibe to the scene because it the camera isn't lined up to what your normal field of view would be like. This is a good characteristic for rock videos because it isn't a normal convention used in mainstream videos.

Another characteristic shown by the members (Jake and Jinxx) is the hair over the face while head banging to their guitar riffs. This is a very popular motion in rock videos, and is automatically recognised as a characteristic from heavier music videos.