Cast (Planning)

 Characters in my Music Video:

Name: Saviour De Marco

Character: Main Singer / Main Male Protagonist

Saviour goes to WHSB and has lots of relations to music itself - he is even a part of a band. Therefore I chose him as he can masterfully portray the indie rock persona I am trying to give off in this music video to align with the brief. He knows how to play a variety of instruments so being the main member of my pretend band The Zodiacs fits perfectly.

Name: Hannah Greenwood

Character: Main Female Protagonist

Hannah is a student at my own school, and though she does not take media herself, she has attampted to help me and other with media coursework. I chose Hannah as she has the confidence to play the character, and wouldn’t mind taking part. Though she doesn’t have lengthy acting experience, Hannah portrays the love interest of my Main Male Protagonist masterfully.

Name: Ruby McGauley

Character: Female Guitarist

Ruby attends the same school as me, and although (again) she does not take media, she has cantinously been apart of mine and other people’s coursework. I chose her to play a Female Guitarist as it relatively rare for bands to portray female drummers or musicians in the Indie Rock scene at all- so I found this as a great way to represent gender as a social group. Ruby also plays guitar herself so it was a great choice of casting for what I wanted in my music video.

Name: Dan Scogings

Character: Male Drummer

Dan attends SHSB as a student, and although he doesn't take media, he takes Music as an A Level - this gracefully helps to make my pretend band, The Zodiacs, seem almost realistic when showing in the master shots scattered across my music video - as all members can play instruments and have an interest in music.

Name: Ishan Badwaj

Character: Friend of the Main Male Protagonist

I chose Ishan to be the Friend of the main protagonist, shown in the scene where my my Main Male Protagonist stops walking to lock eyes with my Main Female Protagonist. Ishan is a pleasure to work with.

Locations (Planning)

Location 1:

Thorpe bay Greenery 

I am filming majority of the music video in this location as it has benches, which are a key symbol and object in my music video, which can clearly see the see. This builds on the mise-en-scène of this nature-filled view, with the sea in the background as the greenery is opposite the beach. Not only does this make my music video look inherently cinematic, which viewers who simply ´like to be entertained’ will enjoy, it will also allow me to link directly to my bands name, The Zodiacs, and the clear view of the sky will align with the galactic aesthetic my bands name adheres too.

Location 2:

My balcony

I am filming my master sequences of my band, The Zodiacs, playing Guitar and Drums on my balcony. This is because it has a clear view of the sky, which again at twilight/sunset time at night will give a cinematic look to my music video, and it will also relate to the again galactic aesthetic of my band. Not only this, but it will also resemble a clear area of the band, overlooking Southend.

Location 3:

My house and bedroom

I will be filming on both the doorstep of my house, and in my bedroom. The scenes outside the house will align with my bands indie rock persona, as it will be used when my main singer is alone - a commonly used trope in Rock music.  The scenes in my bedroom will add the the narrative of my music video, as it will allow for a more relatable approach to the life of my Main Singer, Savior.

Location 4:

St Augustine’s avenue

The road resembles a typical suburban area -aligning to the mise-en-scene of the setting of my music video being in an ordinary town. This road itself is very symmetrical and applies to the cinematography of my music video.

Planning (Storyboard)

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Logo (Planning)

 MAIN BAND LOGO

I named my band “The Zodiacs” as I felt it followed the common indie-rock name format of having the word “the” at the start of the name of an indie rock band, for example, The Smiths, The Strokes, The Killers etc. This directly links the artists name to the indie rock genre, inspiring those interested in the genre to listen and stream the music of The Zodiacs.

Alongside this, the name “Zodiacs” does three things - it directly links to my artists ´symbol’ of stars, twilight, and dusk - allowing me to follow a coherent form of symbolism in my music video - one of which fans ´who like to be entertained’ usually follow in the twenty first century (eg, Taylor Swift and snakes, etc.) The name “Zodiacs” also directly link intertextually to the Zodiac Club in London, which in the UK was a centrepiece in the growth of rock music in the 1970s and 1980s, as it helped up and coming rock artists. The name “The Zodiacs” also pursue the ongoing link that those in the Indie-Rock genre have constantly had towards space and stars. Legacy Artists such as David Bowie with Ziggy Stardust, and Modern Artists such as Tame Impala in the Indie-Rock genre have consistently had an ongoing form of symbolism with the stars and space - so therefore my band relating to this symbolism in the Indie Rock genre will help it relate deeply to the roots of the genre.